RESOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS xUx 



From Section G (Engineering). 



That following the Presidential Address delivered to Section G by 

 Sir Alexander Gibb, the Sectional Committee considered what action could 

 best be taken by the British Association to assist in improving and co-ordin- 

 ating the various forms and channels in which new engineering knowledge 

 is now published. Improvement is urgently required and the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers is already taking action to this end. The Engineering 

 Section of the British Association, however, is in touch with such an 

 exceptionally wide range of engineering that it sees the importance and 

 also the difficulty of co-ordinating all branches of engineering in the matter 

 of publications . 



It is therefore recommended that letters be written on behalf of the 

 Council to the Institution of Civil Engineers and to the Department of 

 Scientific and Industrial Research, drawing attention to the great im- 

 portance of improving the co-ordination of arrangements for publishing 

 and indexing new engineering knowledge and the results of engineering 

 research, and expressing a hope that any new system which is being developed 

 may be made to cover the widest possible range. 



From Section H (Anthropology). 



That in view of the importance of anthropology as a means of promoting 

 concord and understanding between men of different traditions, the British 

 Association earnestly recommends to H.M. Government that anthropology 

 should be made a compulsory subject of study in the training of all 

 probationers appointed to proceed to India or Burma. 



From Section L (Educational Science). 



That in view of the great contribution that an extended system of adult 

 education might make to the political and cultural life of the nation, it be 

 urged that H.M. Government be asked to refer the question of developing 

 adult education either to the Consultative Committee of the Board of 

 Education or to any other appropriate Committee. 



From the Coyiference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies, supported 

 by Section D (Zoology). 



That the Council of the British Association be requested to represent to 

 His Majesty's Minister of Agriculture and to His Majesty's Secretary of 

 State for Scotland, the necessity of instituting an inquiry to ascertain the 

 effects, in respect of efficiency, economic reactions, and humaneness, of 

 available methods of dealing with rodents and other wild mammals that 

 affect agriculture. 



From the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. 



That the Conference recommend to the Council of the British Association 

 the desirability of establishing through its Corresponding Societies' Com- 

 mittee a close liaison with the Association for the Study of Systematics in 

 Relation to General Biology with a view to the Corresponding Societies 

 undertaking work bearing upon systematic problems. 



