Prof, Lamb's Address to British Assn: Church and Intellectual Advancement London, Aug. 26, In the course of his presidential address to the British Association at Southampton, Professor Horace Lamb discussed the nature and pur-Pose of science and expressed the opinion that the quarters exhibiting suspicion and dislike to science were now political rather than The habits of sober and accurate analysis promoted by science" were not always favourable to social and economic theories resting on mainan emotional basis. Referring to the disappointment and. disillu: sion sometimes expressed that science had not produced a new of prosperity and international reconciliation, Professor Lamb point ed out that science was unable to improve on Human Nature, but he claim that science tended to in: crease the intellectual, material and even wsthetic possessions of the world. Dealing particularly with geophysics, Professor Lamb Fe"velted that the observational side was neglected in England, He paid tribute to the geodetic gravitational work done by the survey in India s0 very efficiently and alluded to the institution of Readership of Geodesy at Cambridge whereby it was hoped gravity survey in the British Isles would initiated, while with the cooperation of the Navy he hoped gravity chart of the world, hitherto almost a blank as regards the ocean, might gradually be filled in, He regretted the present inactivity in the way of interpretation. of, seismic records—Reuter,
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