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Officers and Council, 1937-38 ^' 



Sectional Officers, Nottingham Meeting, 1937 ix 



Annual Meetings : Places and Dates, Presidents, Attendances, 

 Receipts, Sums Paid on account of Grants for Scientific 



Purposes (1831-1937) xii 



Narrative of the Nottingham Meeting xvi 



Report of the Council to the General Committee (1936-37) .... xviii 



General Treasurer's Report and Account (1936-37) xxvi 



Research Committees (1937-38) xliii 



Resolutions and Recommendations (Nottingham Meeting) .... xlviii 



The Presidential Address : 



The History of Evolutionary Thought as recorded in Meetings of 

 the British Association. By Prof. Sir Edward Poulton, 

 D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S i 



Sectional Presidents' Addresses : 



Noise and the Nation. By Dr. G. W. C. Kaye, O.B.E 25 



Recent Research in Chemotherapy. By Dr. F. L. Pyman, F.R.S. 57 

 Pleistocene History of the West Midlands. By Prof. L. J. Wills 71 



The Sex Ratio. By Prof. F. A. E. Crew 95 



The Changing Distribution of Population. By Prof. C. B. 



Fawcett 115 



Economic Research and Industrial Policy. By Prof. P. Sargant 



Florence 129 



Research in Engineering. By Sir Alexander Gibb, G.B.E., C.B., 



F.R.S. 151 



Assam Origins in relation to Oceania. By Prof. J. H. Hutton, 



CLE 161 



Heat Production, Nutrition and Growth in Man — Some New 



Views. By Dr. E. P. Poulton 185 



Tests in Common Use for the Diagnosis of Colour Defect. By 



Dr. Mary Collins 207 



The Modern Study of Plants in relation to Education. By Prof. 



E. J. Salisbury, F.R.S 227 



The Informative Content of Education. By H. G. Wells, 



D.Litt 237 



State Intervention in Agriculture. By J. M. Caie 249 



