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CONTENTS. 



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Five Years' Retrospect, 1931-35 v 



Officers and Council, 1936-37 xvii 



Sectional Officers, Blackpool Meeting, 1936 xxi 



Annual Meetings : Places and Dates, Presidents, Attendances, 

 Receipts, Sums Paid on account of Grants for Scientific 



Purposes (1831-1936) xxiv 



Narrative of the Blackpool Meeting xxviii 



Report of the Council to the General Committee (1935-36) .... xxxi 



General Treasurer's Account (1935-36) xliii 



Research Committees (1936-37) lvi 



Resolutions and Recommendations (Blackpool Meeting) lxi 



The Presidential Address : 



The Impact of Science upon Society. By Sir Josiah Stamp, 



G.C.B., G.B.E 1 



Sectional Presidents' Addresses : 



Trends in Modern Physics. By Prof. Allan Ferguson 27 



The Training of the Chemist for the Service of the Community. 



By Prof. J. C. Philip, O.B.E., F.R.S 43 



Palaeontology and Humanity. By Prof. H. L. Hawkins 57 



Natural Selection and Evolutionary Progress. By Dr. J. S. 



Huxley 81 



Mapping of the Colonial Empire. By Brig. H. S. L. Winter- 



botham, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.0 101 



Plantation Economy. By Dr. C. R. Fay 117 



The Engineer and the Nation. By Prof. W. Cramp 141 



The Upper Palaeolithic in the Light of Recent Discovery. By 



Miss D. A. E. Garrod . 155 



The Control of the Circulation of the Blood. By Prof. R. J. S. 



McDowall 173 



The Patterns of Experience. By A. W. Wolters 181 



The Uses of Fungi. By J. Ramsbottom, O.B.E 189 



The Future in Education. By Sir Richard Livingstone 219 



Soil Science in the Twentieth Century. By Prof. J. Hendrick 233 



