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SCIENCE AND THE NATION 



Essays by Cambridge Graduates 



with an Introduction by tlie 



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



Edited by A. C. SEWARD, F.R.S., Master of Downing College, Cambridge. 



CONTENTS 



Introduction. By the Right Hon. Lord Moulton, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



The National Importance of Chemistry. By W. J. Pope, F.R.S. 



Physical Research and the way of its Application. By W. H. Bragg, 

 F.R.S. 



The Modern Science of Metals, Pure and Applied. By W. Rosenhain 

 F.R.S. 



Mathematics in relation to Pure and Applied Science. By E W 

 HoBSON, F.R.S. 



The Science of Botany and the Art of Intensive Cultivation By 

 F. W. Keeble, F.R.S. 



Science in Forestry. By W. Dawson, M.A. 



Systematized Plant-breeding. By R. H. Biffen, F.R.S. 



An Agricultural War Problem. By T. B. Wood, M.A. 



Geology as an Economic Science. By Herbert H. Thomas, Sc.D. 



Medicine and Experimental Science. By F. Gowland Hopkins, F.R.S. 



The " Specific Treatment " of Disease, By G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R.S. 



Flies and Disease. By G. S. Graham-Smith, M.D. 



The Government of Subject Peoples. By W. H. R. Rivers, F.R.S. 



"All can see that after the world-war many industries will have to be rebuilt which relv 

 wholly upon applied science ; and there wiU be an enormous impetus given to the output of all 

 sorts of commodities, the manufacture of which depends upon the use of high technical know 

 ledge. Attempts to go forward on the commercial side witliout reference to the proper source of 

 energy— namely, research— will be slow, ill-directed, and unsuccessful. We desire for this 

 excellent little volume the widest possible circulation ; it is a winning brief for those who have 

 been advocating for years the endowment of pure research in this country. A start has been 

 made, as far as medicine is concerned, with the Medical Research Bureau, but the satisfactorv 

 beginning must have far larger developments, "—hancet ' 



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