14 MAY 1954, Page 7

Demonology and Dandruff

The principal subjects announced for presentation to th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford next September include the relationshi of palaeontology to stratigraphy, the physiology of mil liberation, obesity, the distribution of personality traits in seven- year-old children and the zoology of sewers. There is als an item listed as " Original papers," so we shan't be on th beaten track all the time.