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This propaganda, it should be remarked, is essentially distinct from that 

 aiming at the popularization of science. It does not appeal to the general 

 public, but rather to mature scholars and scientists whom it tries to bring 

 closer together. It does not attempt to make science more popular (which is 

 usually done by laying stress on the applications), but rather to unify and 

 deepen and thus to simplify it, to insist on the more abstract and the higher 

 parts, to improve one's understanding of it by the knowledge of its origin 

 and evolution. It does not try so much to get more people interested in 

 science as to raise the scientist's own interest and broaden his sympathy. 



I was given the opportunity to explain some of my views on the subject 

 in a few lectures delivered before the Connecticut College for Women, Am- 

 herst College, the Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole, and Harvard 

 University. 



Aside from the preparation of my Introduction and the editing of Isis, I 

 have written the following papers: (1) Evariste Galois, Scientific Monthly, 

 vol. 13, 363-375, October 1921. (2) Introduction to the history ard philosophy 

 of science (preliminary note), Isis, vol. iv, 23-31, 1922. (3) The principle 

 of symmetry and its applications to science and to art, Isis, vol. iv, 32-38, 

 1922. (4) The teaching of the history of science, Isis, vol. iv, 225-249, 1922. 

 The last paper contains an elaborate discussion of the conditions of such 

 teaching. Incredible as it may seem, there is at present but one single chair 

 devoted to the history of science, that of the College de France in Paris, and 

 ts incumbent, the mathematician Pierre Boutroux, died recently. 



LITERATURE. 



Bergen, Henry, Brooklyn, New York. Research Associate in Early English 

 Literature. (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 11-20.) 



During the year 1922 the presswork on the first three parts of Lydgate's 

 Fall of Princes has been finished and the volumes are nearly ready for issue. 

 The first part (pp. I to lxv and 1 to 328) contains a brief general introduction 

 and abstract of the contents of the poem, a study of the metre, the Latin and 

 French prefaces and dedicatory epistles of Boccaccio and Laurence de Pre- 

 mierfait, and Books I and II of the text. The second part carries the text 

 down from Book III to Book V (pp. 329 to 673), and the third part (pp. 675 

 to 1044), besides completing the 36,365 lines of text (Books VI to IX), con- 

 tains as an appendix Lydgate's Daunce of Machabree, a poem of 672 lines, 

 reprinted from Tottel's edition, London, 1554. 



Work is progressing on the fourth and final volume of the Fall of Princes, 

 which will contain a bibliographical introduction describing the printed 

 editions and manuscript copies of the work, explanatory notes, a glossary, and 

 an index. In the glossary it is proposed to treat all the words which have not 

 already been included in the glossary of the Troy Book. After the completion 

 of Part IV of the Fall of Princes, which is expected to be ready for the press 

 early in 1924, Dr. Bergen will resume his work on the final volume of his edition 

 of the Troy Book, containing the bibliographical introduction, notes, glossary, 

 and index, on which he has been engaged for some years, and all of which is 

 now in an advanced state. 



