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Wells to Fold. Some three decades ago Sir Norman Lockyer, who discovered helium in the sun, urged BAAS to take some notice of social problems, to establish better communications with the public. The members snorted. Sir Norman thereupon organized the British Science Guild, which cooperated on socio-scientific matters with His Majesty's Government. When BAAS continued its indifference, famed Biologist John Burden Sanderson Haldane also resigned from it, and Writer Herbert George Wells mercilessly made fun of it. For the last twelve years persistent efforts have been made to reconcile the Association and the Guild. Now that BAAS...
...inflammability, present in the air in minute quantity. Airships inflated with hydrogen or other gases are subject to the danger of being exploded by anti-aircraft guns or engine accidents; helium is immune to such catastrophes. Helium was first dis covered, in 1868, by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, the astronomer, by spectroscopic analysis, as one of the ingredients of the sun's chromosphere, or outer coat. For a long time it was supposed to be indigenous to the sun only, but in 1895 Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), the brilliant British chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize...