The Scientists at York ' The British Association meetings this
year, ranging from neutrons to noise, and from helminthology to fairies, have been as bewildering in their expansiveness as ever. The seekers after sensation have been for the most part disappointed, the only paper calculated to stir popular interest in the wider sense (apart from one which brought into prominence a well-known film-star's elaborated eye- • brows) being that - in which Dr. Miles Walker; President of the Engineering Section, proposed the partial mechaniza- tion of Parliament. Professor Walker was evidently speaking more seriously than might have been supposed, for a resolution calling for closer co-operation between scientists and the Government, not for the advancement of science, but for the more efficient conduet- of govern-. ment, was*put- down, but the Committee on Recommen- dations discreetly quashed it. *
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