REPRINT OF LECTURES ON SCIENCE IN RELATION 



TO THE WAR 



A series of public lectures dealing with the scientific and {engineering 

 aspects of the war was given under the auspices of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences during the winter and spring of 1918. The lectures 

 as pubhshed in the Journal are as follows: 



Major S. J. M. Auld, of the British" Military Mission: Methods of 

 gas warfare. 



Col. C. F. Lee, of the British Aviation Mission: Aviation. 



Maj. Gen. John HeadlaM; C.B., D.S.O., of the British Artillery 

 Mission : The development of artillery during the war. 



Lieut. Col. X. Reille, Chief of Artillery in the French Advisory 

 Mission: The problem of anti-aircraft firing. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, of the U. S. Food Administration: Biology 

 and war. • 



Prof. Arthur A. Notes, of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology : The nitrogen problem in relation to the war. 



The Academy has reprinted in collected form a hmited edition of 

 these lectures. Copies of the brochure, substantially bound in flexible 

 cloth covers, may be purchased of the Treasurer, Mr. R. L. Faris, 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C, at seventy-five cents 

 each (postage included) . 



