Aims and Objects of the Guild. 



THE BRITISH SCIENCE GUILD is not a scientific society, an 

 institute of industry, or an educational association, but a 

 national organisation in which the interests of science, 

 industry and education are represented, and their activities 

 co-ordinated for the common good. No technical qualifications 

 are required for membership; and the rate of subscription cannot 

 prevent anyone from joining the Guild, and thus giving practical 

 support to its work. 



Though the Guild has been in existence since 1905, the 

 objects for which it was founded have only recently been recog- 

 nis -d as essential points of a national programme. As stated 

 in 1905 , they are as follows : 



(1) To bring together as members of the Guild all those 

 throughout the Empire interested in science and scientific 

 method, in order, by joint action, to convince the people, by 

 means of publications and meetings, of the necessity of 

 applying the methods of science to all branches of human 

 endeavour , and thus to further the progress and increase the 

 welfare of the Empire. 



(2) To bring before the Government the scientific aspects of 

 all matters affecting the national welfare. 



(3) To promote and extend the application of scientific 

 principles to industrial and general purposes. 



(4) To promote scientific* education by encouraging the 

 support of universities and other institutions where the 

 bounds of science are extended, or wh2re new applications 

 of science are devised. 



The attention lately given to science and industry in relation 

 to the State shows that these objects are at last being accepted , 

 and that widespread sympathy exists with the aims of tin- 

 Guild. 



In order to take advantage of this new attitude, in the 

 interests of national welfare, the Guild should be represented in 

 all parts of the Empire by members who will bring its aims 

 before the public by individual efforts, or through local com- 

 mittees combining the activities of science, industry and education 



Outline of Activities. 



The Guild, soon after its formation, constituted Committees 

 to enquire into various matters which were at that date (1905) 

 held to be of importance; it has since then, from time to time, 

 constituted additional Committees to deal with new subjects and 

 questions as these have come into prominence. 



