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succeeded by his chief assistant, Dr. Watson E. Davis, another 

 scientific man who can write. 



Even before the founding of Science Service, however, the 

 space devoted to scientific news in many journals increased 

 greatly and manuscripts were accepted from certain scientific 

 men who found that they could write. Many magazines fol- 

 lowed suit. And at the present time I think that science is 

 receiving nearly adequate attention at the hands of the press. 

 Some of us old timers, however, have a feeling that in certain 

 cases scientific workers of great promise, having found that they 

 can write acceptably and that they are well paid for doing so, 

 are in a way abandoning fields of research in which they could 

 do more permanent good. 



Not only with the Science Service but also in other ways is 

 this press reporting of scientific matters becoming systematized. 

 For example, Mr. Austin H. Clark of the National Museum, 

 a man broadly trained, especially in biological science, has taken 

 on the duties of press secretary of the great old association. He 

 tells me that the newspapers are avid for good sound stuff. 

 Surely the average reader of newspapers has had no difficulty in 

 getting adequate ideas of the important features of all the recent 

 meetings. Even over here in Europe, where I am writing this 

 in the early spring of 1932, I have had no difficulty in following 

 the course of events at the January meeting of the Association 

 at New Orleans. 



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