Interesting Contrast with Natural Production Work London, Sept. 5.
Twenty-six women will read papers on the most diverse subjects, at the meeting of the British Association, which opens at Glasgow to-morrow.
One of them, namely, Professor Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan, is the President of the Botany Section, Sir William Bragg, in his presidential address to-night, entitled Craftsmanship and" Science." welcomed the increase in a new type of workers, consisting of persons engaged in industrial research. He expressed the opinion that their facility to have personal intercourse with employers and employed will supply each with a new interest and outlook on the whole enterprise. They will thus act as the flux which would make capital and labour run together He pointed out that the most active modern industries in Britain were those founded on recent scien-tiffle research, quoting as instances electrical engineering and the motor, aircraft and chemical industries.
He contrasted these with the plight of the coal, iron, steel and wool industries, the condition of which, however, might be alleviated as the result of research—Reuter.
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