S20 REPORT— 1902* 



Section L.— EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE. 



Pkesidext of the Section — Professor ITexry E. Akmstkong, 

 LL.D., Ph.D., V.P.R.S. 



THUliSnAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 



The President delivered the following Address : — 



1 AJI sure all will be in agreement with me when, at the very corameucement of 

 my Address, I refer to the grievous loss we have suffered through the death of 

 Mr. Griffith. Many of us could count him as our good friend, and are aware 

 that ho displayed a fulness of sympathy altogether rare among officials towards 

 all members of the Association. The value of the service he rendered to the 

 Association, on account of the breadth and accuracy of the stores of knowledge 

 at his disposal, although widely felt and recognised, was so veiled by his modesty 

 of manner and the quiet regularity with which he did his work that only the 

 few who came intimately into contact with him can rate his. doings at their 

 proper worth. The smootliness with which the proceedings of the Association 

 ■Were carried on from year to year, notwithstanding the great variety of interests 

 represented in it, was in no small measure due to his diplomacy. I have had 

 special opportunities of appreciating his extraordinary versatility, as it has been 

 my good fortune during recent years to come much into contact with him in 

 connection with the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers — a work to 

 which he unsparingly devoted himself, rendering thereby important service to 

 science. To no Section of this Association can his death be a greater loss than it 

 is to ours. The foundation of the Section was in large measure due to his 

 sympathetic encourngement and support, and he looked forward to the time when 

 it would be one of the most important and popular in the Association. He thought 

 of it, I know, as the one which was likely to bring about a fuller understanding 

 of the value of science to the community, and eventually to knit a close relation- 

 ship between the scientific fraternity and the general public. The withdrawal of 

 liis counsel has been to mo an irreparable loss, and in judging of my shortcomings 

 I trust you will bear in mind that at the critical moment I have been unable to 

 appeal to his balanced judgment for advice. 



The last meeting of the British Association at Belfast was presided over by 

 Professor Tyndall, one of whose most memorable discourses was that delivered at 

 Liverpool in 1870 on ' The Scientific Use of the Imagination." In the course of 

 his Address the President could point out that 'science had already to some 

 extent leavened the world ' : abundant proof has since been given that he 

 was right in claiming that ' it will leaven it more and more.' Nevertheless, 

 if we consider the leavening effect which science has had on the public mind, 

 it is impossible to deny that progress is being made in this direction at a woefully 

 slow rate, in no way proportionate to the growth of knowledge or to the 

 recognised usefulness of the many discoveries which are the outcome of scientific 

 investigation. Science is still treated by society as a rich 2)arve?m all the world 



