Presidential Address to the British Association of University Teachers

1923 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
J. W. McBain
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
British Association ◽  
University Teachers

Sentiment and Prejudice

2021 ◽  
pp. 799-832
Author(s):  
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche ◽  
Annie L. Cot
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
British Association ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Women's Wages ◽  
Equal Work ◽  
Economic Journal

This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages. Second, we review his first writings on women’s work and wages: early mentions in the 1870s, his book reviews published in the Economic Journal, and the substantial preface he wrote for the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1904 report on Women in Printing Trades. Third, we document his 1922 British Association presidential address in relation to the burgeoning literature on women’s work and wages within political economy at the time. Finally, we show that his 1923 follow-up article on women’s wages and economic welfare constitutes an update of his “aristocratical utilitarianism” in the post–World War I context.

Some aspects of lipid biochemistry

1962 ◽  
Vol 156 (964) ◽  
pp. 376-387 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Living Cells ◽  
British Association ◽  
Lipid Biochemistry ◽  
Chemical Methods ◽  
Single Sentence ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Living Entity ◽  
Almost All

I am at a great disadvantage in comparison to most of the speakers today, for I neither had the good fortune to work in Hopkins’s laboratory, nor did I have the privilege of knowing him. I cannot, therefore, call upon personal recollections of his teaching to link my remarks with his memory. Fortunately the writings of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins are to biochemists like the Bible; both provide texts for almost all occasions. I will endeavour to show, with some selected examples, how lipid biochemists have carried forward the general concepts of biochemistry developed by him. There are two recurrent themes in almost all his public addresses, expressed with increasing vigour as years went by. One of these was his emphasis on the necessity of a closer association between chemists and biologists; discarding the sterile mysticism of ‘Vitalism’, Hopkins firmly believed that the life-processes of the cell are catalyzed by intracellular enzymes and obey the laws of chemistry. The second theme was his insistence that the seemingly static composition of any living entity was the result of a dynamic equilibrium of a multitude of reactions. As early as 1913, in his address to the British Association, we find both these themes fully expressed. His thesis was ‘that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal, not with complex substances which elude ordinary chemical methods, but with simple substances undergoing comprehensible reactions’. In the same lecture he described the life of the cell as ‘the expression of a particular dynamic equilibrium which obtains in a polyphasic system’ (Hopkins 1913). Then in his presidential address to the British Association at Leicester in 1933 the two concepts are expressed in a single sentence, when he defined the essential or ultimate aim of biochemistry as ‘an adequate and acceptable description of molecular dynamics in living cells and tissues’ (Hopkins 1933).

Saints and Sinner: Sir Richard Owen

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 170-171
Author(s):  
Richard Bellon
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Technical Detail ◽  
British Association ◽  
Animal Kingdom ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Current State ◽  
Richard Owen

The presidential address launched the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Each year a new president provided a broad and accessible summary of the current state of science to a general audience. These talks served as the meeting's intellectual tent-pole. Afterwards attendees fanned out to more specialised events. Most presidents spoke for less than 60 minutes. At the 1858 meeting in leeds, Richard Owen pummelled his audience for nearly three hours. He dedicated much of his time to describing, in excruciatingly technical detail, his groundbreaking work on the structural correspondences present in all vertebrate skeletons, which he had earlier christened 'homologies'. He now made the case that his work provided 'a superstructure of higher generalisations in regards to parts homological or answerable throughout the animal kingdom .' He finished well after eleven at night. A journalist insinuated that no one emerged from the ordeal seemingly unexhausted except for the speaker himself.

I.—Remarks on the Present Outlook on Descent

1925 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
F. O. Bower
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
British Association ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Single Chain ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Organic World ◽  
Stirring Time

A rough periodicity may sometimes be seen in the progress of Science. After a stirring time of advance may come a period of lethargy, or even of negation, followed again by some fresh spurt of activity. At the present moment we seem to have reached a phase of negation in respect of the achievements of phyletic Morphology, and in conclusions as to Descent. This is suggested by the Presidential Address in Section K at the British Association at Liverpool. Already Professor Seward in the Hooker Lecture, 1922, had said, “It may be that we shall never piece together the links of the chain of life, not because the missing parts elude our search, but because the unfolding in all its phases cannot be compared to a single chain. Continuity in some degree there must have been, but it is conceivable that plant life viewed as a whole may best be represented by separate and independent lines of evolution, or disconnected chains which were never united, each being initiated by some revolution in the organic world.”

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