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SCIENCE AND THE NATION

Essays by Cambridge Graduates
with an Introduction by the
Right Hon. Lord Moulton, K.C.B., F.R.S.

Edited by A. C. SEWARD, F.R.S.,

Master of Downing College, Cambridge

Crown 8vo. pp. xxii+328. Price 5s net.

It is the aim of the authors of these essays to present the results of experience in scientific investigation, to illustrate by concrete examples the sources of progress in a few departments of knowledge and so make clear to the layman the position of research as a factor in national prosperity. Each Essay has been written by some one who, by lifelong study and practice of the Branch of Science to which it relates, has qualified himself to give a just and authoritative description of the work that has already been done, as well as of the bearing of that work on the present and its promise for the future.

CONTENTS

Introduction. By the Right Hon. Lord Moulton, K.C.B., F.R.S.

The National Importance of Chemistry. By W. J. Pope, F.R.S

Physical Research and the way of its Application. By W. H. Bragg, F.R.S.

The Modern Science of Metals, Pure and Applied. By W. Rosenhain, F.R.S.

Mathematics in relation to Pure and Applied Science. By E. W. Hobson, F.R.S.

The Science of Botany and the Art of Intensive Cultivation. By F. W. Keeble, F.R.S.

Science in Forestry. By W. Dawson, M.A.

Systematized Plant-breeding. By R. H. Biffen, F.R.S.

An Agricultural War Problem. By T. B. Wood, M.A.

Geology as an Economic Science. By Herbert H. Thomas, Sc.D.

Medicine and Experimental Science. By F. Gowland Hopkins, F.R.S.

The "Specific Treatment" of Disease. By G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S.

Flies and Disease. By G. S. Graham-Smith, M.D.

The Government of Subject Peoples. By W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S.

"One of the most important and most illuminating of recently published volumes on the place of science in national life.... The admirable essays contained in the volume give assurance that the men who are chiefly responsible for the direction of scientific instruction in this country have the root of the matter in them, that British science is sound and vigorous at its centre, and that what is mainly required is the intellectual and financial support of the nation as a whole."—Leading Article in Glasgow Herald

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