. DISCOVERY A MONTHUY" POPULAR JOURNAL or KNOWrjLEDGE No. 10. OCTOBER 1920. PRICE 6d. NET. A Monthly Populax_ Journal of DISCOVERY. Knowledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John , 50.\ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, post free : Inland 8s. 6d. ; Abroad 7s. 6d. Single numbers 6d. net ; postage. Inland 2id. ; Abroad ikd. Editorial Notes The eighty-eighth m
. DISCOVERY A MONTHUY" POPULAR JOURNAL or KNOWrjLEDGE No. 10. OCTOBER 1920. PRICE 6d. NET. A Monthly Populax_ Journal of DISCOVERY. Knowledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John , 50.\ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, post free : Inland 8s. 6d. ; Abroad 7s. 6d. Single numbers 6d. net ; postage. Inland 2id. ; Abroad ikd. Editorial Notes The eighty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science met in Cardiff this year. The meetings were well attended, and the dis- cussions on the scientific problems which arose were very good ones. This association, as is well known, serves three main purposes: it gives scientific workers an opportunity for getting in touch with men who are working on allied subjects; it endeavours to encourage research in all subjects ; it attempts to make scientific knowledge accessible to the general public. The association has a president, always a distinguished man, who commences the proceedings by delivering an address which sets many people thinking and talking for a considerable time after it has been delivered. Thereafter the association breaks up into twelve sec- tions, each of which has a president, addresses, lectures, and discussions. Interspersed with this work are entertainments and excursions, and the general public of the town are treated to five public lectures. ***** The president this year was Professor \V. A. Herd- man, of Liverjwol, and the subject of his address was Oceanography. In this address he made two impor- tant suggestions : (i) that a department of oceano- graphic and fisheries research should be established at Cardifi; and {2) that there should be a great national oceanographical expedition, fitted out by the Admir- alty, and embracing all departments of
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