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WILLIAM A. HEEDMAN, C.B.E., D.Sc, Sc.D., LL.D., F.E.S., 

 Professor of Oceanography in the University of Liverpool, 



President. 

 Oceanography and the Sea-Fisheries. 



It has been customary, when occasion requured, for the President to 

 offer a brief tribute to the memory of distinguished members of the 

 Association lost to Science during the preceding year. These, for the 

 most part, have been men of advanced years and high reputation, who 

 had completed their life-work and served well in their day the Associa- 

 tion and the sciences which it represents. Sucli are our late General 

 Treasurer, Professor Perry, and our Past-President, Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, of whom the retiring President has just spoken.^ We have 

 this year no other such losses to record; but it seems fitting on 

 the present occasion to pause for a moment and devote a grateful 

 thought to that glorious band of fine young men of high promise in 

 science who, in the years since our Australian meeting in 1914, 

 gave, it may be, in brief days and months of sacrifice, greater service 

 to humanity and the advance of civilisation than would have been 

 possible in years of normal time and work. A few names stand 

 out already known and highly honoured — Moseley, Jenkinson, Geoffrey 

 Smith, Keith Lucas, Hopkinson, Gregory, and more recently Leonard 

 Doncaster — all grievous losses; but there are also others, younger 

 members of our Association, who had not yet had opportunity for 

 showing accomplished work, but who equally gave up all for a great 

 ideal. I prefer to offer a collective rather than an individual tribute. 

 Other young men of science will arise and carry on their work — ^but 

 the gap in our ranks remains. Let their successors remember that it 

 serves as a reminder of a great example and of high endeavour worthy 

 of our gratitude and of permanent record in the annals of Science. 



At tlie last Cardiff Meeting of the British Association in 1891 you had 



as your President the eminent astronomer Sir William Huggins, who 



discoursed upon the then recent discoveries of the spectroscope in 



relation to the chemical nature, density, temperature, pressure and. even 



the motions of the stars. From the sky to the sea is a long drop ; but 



the sciences of both have this in common, that they deal with 



> See p, XXX., ante, 

 1920 B 



