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It may well be that his ceaseless energy shortened his days, 



but his was a nature which found " leisure " irksome. Had he 



striven to husband his strength he would have achieved less ; 



but this would, to him, have seemed unworthy, for in work he 



found the main incentive to life. 



W. P. Pycraft. 



The British Science Guild 



The important pronouncement by the President of the Board 

 of Education in the House of Commons on May 13 last, re- 

 garding the proposed formation of an Advisory Council con- 

 cerned with industrial and scientific research, has aroused 

 widespread interest. The British Science Guild, since its 

 inception in 1905, has been working assiduously and with little 

 encouragement to organise scientific work in the interests of 

 national welfare, and the proposal of the Board of Education 

 may be regarded as a practical endorsement of the work of 

 the Guild. 



It is interesting to note that during the past three months 

 the work of the Guild and its Committees has covered a wide 

 scope of subjects, including Anti-typhoid Inoculation, the 

 Shortage of Drugs, the Manufacture of British Microscopes, 

 the Remuneration of Scientific Workers, the Manufacture of 

 Optical and Chemical Glass and Porcelain Apparatus, etc., etc. 



The publication of an advertisement in an attempt to dis- 

 suade British soldiers from undergoing the inoculation against 

 typhoid, recommended by the military medical authorities, led 

 the Medical Committee of the Guild to issue a statement warmly 

 approving of the practice of inoculation against typhoid, and 

 condemning in strong terms the unpatriotic action of the 

 authors of the advertisement. Copies of this statement were 

 forwarded to the Prime Minister, the War Office, the General 

 Medical Council, medical societies and schools, and to the 

 commanding officers of British regiments. From many of 

 these the Guild received expressions of cordial agreement and 

 applications for additional copies of the statement. 



The Education and Technical Education Joint Committee 

 considered the best means of overcoming the difficulty which 

 was being experienced in educational institutions in this country 

 through the cutting-off of the usual supplies of glass and 

 porcelain apparatus from Germany and Austria. An inquiry 

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