Opening Adress

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON BIOLOGY AND CIVIL ENGINEERING.

Tuesday Morning, 21 September, 1948.

The President, in introducing the Rt. Hon. Herbert Morrison, M.P., Lord President of the Council, and before asking him to open the Conference, said that it might seem somewhat surprising to hold a Conference on Biology and Civil Engineering. When the suggestion first came before the Council he was rather startled and wondered for a moment what was the connexion between the two subjects. On second thoughts, however, it became obvious that there was a close connexion. The President referred to the fact that many old cities, where vegetation had overtaken civil engineering work, had been buried and lost. That process could be seen in its early stages on many of the bombed sites in London.