ADVANCE OF SCIENCE
BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETS NEW PRESIDENT ELECTED British Wireless RUGBY, Sopt. 11 The noted Oxford zoologist and entomologist Sir Edward Poulton was to-day elected next year's president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The meeting of the.
association next yenr will be held at Nottingham and in 1938 it will be held at Cambridge. At to-day's meeting of ths general committee the question' of holding a future meeting of the association in Australia was under consideration, but no decision was reached.
Sir Edward Poulton, who was knighted in 1935, was born in 1856 and was educated at Oxford University, where, after a brilliant career in science, he became a lecturer in natural science in 1880. He has been a member of the council of the Royal Society on two occasions and he was a vice-president in 191)9. Ho has also been the president of several other scientific societies and has received numerous British and foreign honours. Sir Edward has published several books on his work and he is acknowledged to be one of the leading scientists of the world. In 1933 he was elected honorary life president of the Royal Entomological Society Londop.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22523, 14 September 1936, Page 9
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