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SCIENCE AND THE NATION 



ESSAYS BY CAMBRIDGE GRADUATES 

 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE 



Right Hon. Lord MOULTON, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



EDITED BY 



A. C. SEWARD, F.R.S. 



MASTER OF DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 



It is the aim of the authors of these essays to present the results 

 of experience in scientific investigation, to illustrate by concrete ex- 

 amples the sources of progress in a few departments of knowledge and 

 so make clear to the layman the position of research as a factor in 

 national prosperity. Each Essay has been written by some one who, 

 by lifelong study and practice of the Branch of Science to which it 

 relates, has qualified himself to give a just and authoritative descrip- 

 tion of the work that has already been done as well as of the bearing 

 of that work on the present and its promise for the future. 



Extracts from Press Notices 



"One of the most important and most illuminating of recently published volumes on the place 

 of science in national life. . . .The admirable essays contained in the volume give assurance that 

 the men who are chiefly responsible for the direction of scientific instruction in this country have 

 the root of the matter in them, that British science is sound and vigorous at its centre, and that 

 what is mainly required is the intellectual and financial support of the nation as a whole." 



Leading Article in The Glasgow Herald 



"This is a fascinating book, and it fulfils its purpose admirably of helping ordinary people to 

 grasp the value of scientific research. . . .The essays are the clearest popular exposition with which 

 we are acquainted of the achievements of modern science in the service of man." — The Inquirer 



"In essay after essay — from the impressive opening one on 'The National Importance of 

 Chemistry* to that on 'The Govenunent of Subject Peoples,' which concludes the series — we 

 have a recital of the achievements of science in its various branches, and it is brought home 

 to us in the most convincing manner how the great discoveries and inventions — coal-tar dyes, 

 X-rays, wireless telegraphy, the production of a rust-resisting wheat of large yielding capacity, 

 the modern treatment of disease — have all been rendered possible and are all the outcome of a 

 'steady pursuit of knowledge by rational and intelligent research.'" — The New Statesman 



"The chapters are of the utmost interest to the general reader; they give him compactly and 

 authoritatively a sound idea of the scope and value of contemporary work in chemistry, physics, 

 botany, geology, medicine, mathematics, and anthropology." — Nature 



"The whole region of scientific research is surveyed by the contributors to Science and the 

 Nation^ and their observations will be invaluable to those who really wish to have a firm grasp of 

 the true problems of intellectual reconstruction on the scientific side." — The Morning Post 



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