646 SCIENCE PROGRESS 



These organisations have their headquarters in two buildings, known as 

 the House of Science and the House of Literature and Art. Under the 

 former we note such great names as those of Pavlov the physiologist and Nobel 

 Prizeman, Karpinsky the geologist, Borodin the botanist, Belopolsky the 

 astronomer, Tagantzev the criminologist. Oldenburg the orientalist and 

 permanent secretary of the Petrograd Academy of Science, Koni, Bechterev, 

 Latishev, Morozov, and many others familiar to the whole scientific world. 



Several of these scientific men have been interviewed and afiairs discussed 

 with them, particularly as to whether an>-thing could be done to help them. 

 There were many matters in which it would be possible to assist them, 

 but upon one in particular they laid stress. Their thought and work is 

 greatly impeded by the fact that they have seen practically no European 

 books or pubhcations since the Revolution. This is an inconvenience 

 amounting to real intellectual distress. In the hope that this condition may 

 be reheved by an appeal to British scientific workers, Prof. Oldenburg formed 

 a small committee, and made a comprehensive hst of books and pubhcations 

 needed by the intellectual commimity in Russia if it is to keep alive and 

 abreast of the rest of the world. 



It is, of course, necessary- to be assured that any aid of this kind provided 

 for hterar}' and scientific men in Russia would reach its destination. The 

 Bolshevik Government in Moscow, the Russian trade delegations in Reval 

 and London, and our own authorities have therefore been consulted, and it 

 would appear that there will be no obstacles to the transmission of this 

 needed material to the House of Science and the House of Literature and Art. 

 It can be got through by special facihties, even under present conditions. 



Many of the pubhcations named in the Oldenburg hst will have to be 

 bought, the costs of transmission vnU. be considerable, and accordingly the 

 undersigned have formed themselves into a small committee for the collection 

 and administration of a fund for the supply of scientific and hterary pubhca- 

 tions, and possibly, if the amount subscribed permits of it, of other necessities, 

 to these Russian savants and men of letters. 



We hope to work in close association with the Royal Society and other 

 leading societies in this matter. The British Science Guild has kindly granted 

 the Committee permission to use its address. 



W€ appeal for subscriptions, and ask that cheques should be made out 

 to the Treasurer, C. Hagberg Wright, LL.D., and sent to 



The British Committee for Aiding Men of Letters and Science in Russia, 



British Science Guild Ofl&ces, 



6, John Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.2. 



Faithfully yours, 



Montagu of Beaulieu Bernard Pares 



Ernest Barker Arthur Schuster 



E. P. Cathcarx C. S. Sherrington 



A. S. Eddington a. E. Shipley 



I. GoLLANCZ H. G. Wells 



R. A. Gregory A. Smith Woodward 



P. Chalmers Mitchell C. Hagberg Wright 



