Science: At Leeds

"... I have reason to believe," wrote the Prince of Wales, "that when anyone in this country digs up a bone, his first instinct (subject to the intervention of the police) is to send it to Sir Arthur Keith. . . ."

His Royal Highness was formally retiring, by letter, as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The members of that august body, assembled last week at Leeds, reflected that their retiring president had been a perfunctory one. His inaugural pronouncement a year ago, like his retiring one now, had...

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