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psychiatric, Dr. R. Pierrac, new edition ; Manuel 

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 Heincmann. — A Text-Book of Nervous Diseases, Dr. 

 R. Bing, translated by Dr. C' L. Allen, illustrated; 

 Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling : A 

 Study in Forensic Psychology, Dr. W. Healy and 

 M. T. Healy; The Practitioner's Pocket Pharmaco- 

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 and Stereoscopy, Sir J. Mackenzie Davidson, illus- 

 trated; The Pathology of Tumours, Dr. E. H. Kettle, 

 illustrated; Essays on Practical Medicine, Dr. T. B. 

 Scott, with a preface by Sir Lauder Brunton ; Notes 

 on Faradism and Galvanism, Dr. Magill, illustrated; 

 The Adolescent Period : its Features and Management, 

 Dr. L. Starr; Mentally Deficient Children, Dr. G. E. 

 Shuttleworth and Dr. W. A. Potts, illustrated, new 

 edition ; Gould's Pocket Medical Dictionary, new 

 edition ; Diseases of the Nose and Throat, Dr. H. 

 Tilley, new edition ; and a new and revised Medical 

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 Bliss, jun., and A. H. Olive, illustrated; Long- 

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 Nervous System, Dr. W. H. Gaskell, illustrated; The 

 Physiology of Reflex Action, Dr. C. S. Sherrington; 

 The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse, Dr. K. 

 Lucas ; The Physiological Basis of the Action of Drugs, 

 Dr. H. H. Dale; The Secretion of Urine, Dr. A. R. 

 Cushny ; The Nature of Muscular Movement, Dr. 

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THE ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC 

 RESEARCH.'^ 

 MONGST the indirect results , of this appalling 

 war, we may hope that there will be some 

 increased appreciation in the minds of the politicians 

 who govern us of the enormous influence of scientific 

 research and discovery, even in its most abstruse 

 forms, on the prosperity and safety of the Empire. 

 We have had brought home to us that this war is a 

 war quite as much of chemists and engineers as of 

 soldiers and sailors. Hence, from the point of view 

 of national security alone, we must take steps to foster 

 scientitic investig-ation. We shall nrob.nbly never suc- 

 ceed in convincing the unthoughtful multitude of the 

 manner in which the highest scientific researches affect 

 human life in innumerable ways, but it will be 

 sufficient if that fact is brought home to _ the con- 

 sciousness of those who have political position and 

 power, and if we can impress upon them that theirs 

 will be the responsibility if they neglect to encourage 

 it. 



Methods of Scientific Research. 



The great bulk of all our scientific discovery and 

 research in the past has been due to individual labour 

 and initiative; much of it a labour of love, unrecog- 

 nised at the time. Men of great trenius have opened 

 up new lines of thouerht or pursued private researches 

 often with very inadequate appliances. In fact, the 

 greater. part of past British scientific research may be 

 said to have been amateur work, not in the sense that 



1 Abridged fropi a paper read before the Royal Soc'ety of Art< on 

 February 9, by Prof. J. A. Fleming, F.R.'=. 



