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SOME BASIC CONSIDERATIONS IN PLANNING FORRESEARCH IN SOUTHERN PROBLEMS'

By Professor GEO. H. BOYDUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

THEE are so many existing organizations thatscientists, as well as others, have long since grownweary of the addition of more organizations withmore or less duplication of purpose, more meetings toattend and more papers to be read. Every new or-

ganization which is to succeed must justify itself interms of a distinct purpose and plan of activities.The Southern Association of Science and Industry,organized with the purpose of bringing togetherscience and industry in the South in the effort to focusscientific research upon the problems and the resourcesof the South, may, I believe, be adequately justified.

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