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edited, the impartiality and precision of its judg- 

 ments, the wide range of its information, the accuracy 

 of its reports, have given Nature in its own sphere 

 unique distinction and authority. These have been 

 used for the disinterested furtherance of investigation 

 and for the support of the claims of science upon 

 national attention and support. 



University of Liverpool. V ice-Chancellor : Prok. 

 J. G. Adami, F.R.S. — Looking baclcwards over 

 the last quarter of a century spent overseas in 

 Canada, I cannot but realise the heavy debt 

 owed by me and other university teachers there 

 to Nature for keeping us in touch with the 

 advances made in the various fields of science. 

 Here, in Britain, the great dailies deal increasingly 

 vj\t\i the latest scientific developments. It is not so 

 with the daily Press in North America. That is 

 becoming more rather than less local and provincial. 

 The broad survey given in Nature fills a void in the 

 New World that is in part bridged over in the Old. 

 Perhaps more abundant illustrations and one or two 

 articles each week upon the application of science 

 and the laws of Nature to industry, added to the 

 present contents, would widen the circle of its 

 readers, increase its influence, and reflect the spirit 

 of the age. 



University of Manchester. Vice-Chancellor : Sir 

 Henry A. Miers, F.R.S. — In common with all 

 readers of Nature, I regard its jubilee as a 

 great event. Life would have been a different 

 thing to us without our weekly Nature, which 

 has become an old friend because it has pre- 

 served its character unchanged. This is a great 

 achievement and a testimony to the wisdom with 

 which it was originally planned. Always a real 

 scientific journal, it has continued to be also a popular 

 journal in the best sense, and a great help in these 

 days of increasing specialisation. A new and com- 

 plete index to the first 100 volumes w-ould be invalu- 

 able to all scientific workers. 



University of Oxford. V ice-Chancellor : Rev. 

 Dr. H. E. D. Blakiston.— The Vice-Chancellor 

 of the University of Oxford is interested to hear 

 that Nature attains its jubilee in November, 

 and offers his congratulations to the Editor. He 

 cannot profess to be a constant refider of any 

 scientific periodical; but when he wants clear in- 

 formation on any topic of scientific interest which 

 is attracting public attention, or details of the career 

 of any member of the University or of his own col- 

 lege who has obtained distinction in natural science, 

 his first thought is to obtain the loan of a copy of 

 the current number of Nature. 



University of Sheffield. Chancellor : The Most Hon. 

 the Marquess of Crewe, K.G.~ I am happy to add 

 my name, as Chancellor of Sheffield University and 

 chairman of the Governors of the Imperial Collega, 

 to the long list of those who are congratulating Nature 

 on its life of fifty years. As the nation becomes more 

 and more conscious of its need for scientific training 

 and the encouragement of research, it will continue 

 to set an increasing value on Nature, both as a record 

 of progress and as the trusted vehicle for the expres- 

 sion of scientific opinions. 



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Personal. 

 Prof. Isaac Bayley B.-vlfour, F.R.S. — Nature, 

 founded in the period of revolution in scientific 

 thought following Darwin, by presentation of the 

 work and aims and its advocacy of the claims of 

 science, has been a powerful factor during fifty 

 years in securing recognition by the nation of the 

 importance of science which the lessons of the war 

 have enforced. The world of science is proud of it. 

 May its influence in this new period of reconstruction 

 continue to operate forcefully, so that congratulations 

 at its centenary may be as gratefully tendered as are 

 : those we offer now. 



Sir George Beilby, F.R.S. — I gladly record my 

 ' grateful appreciation of the services rendered by 

 I Nature to the cause of scientific culture in the best 

 sense. The increasing tendency to specialisation bv 

 individual workers makes it more and more desirable 

 that their touch with science in its widest aspects 

 should be maintained with the minimum,' of effort on 

 their part. This, it appears to me, will continue to 

 be — as it has been in the past — one of the most valu- 

 able functions of Nature. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, F.R.S.— For fift\ 

 years Nature has held the mirror up to Scienc«; 

 and faithfully reflected her every movement 

 Each volume has been a record of the best: 

 brain-work of the year, ranging from the simplest 

 observations to the most recondite abstractions. 

 Recent issues have revealed the tremendously destruc- 

 tive forces that science wields, and have suggested 

 that it has been owing to the lack of science in high 

 places, and to the blundering that ignorance and 

 arrogance beget, that these malign forces have been 

 let loose on mankind. But science unpervertcd is 

 beneficent, and nothing is more urgently needed at this 

 hour than its teaching and popular exposition. Great 

 j is Science — "mightiest in the mightiest" — and Naturf 

 \ is its handmaid. Flor eat Sciential Floreat" Natura" .' 

 \ Right Hon. Lord Bryce, O.M., F.R.S.— The 

 amazing, and indeed unprecedentedly rapid, progress 

 I made during the last half-century in practically everv 

 ! branch of physical science, together with the increas- 

 j ing specialisation of most branches, has made it more 

 and more difficult for those non-scientific persons who 

 watch with eager curiosity the steps in that progress to 

 follow its developments. Such persons, and especially 

 those who occupy themselves with the study of the 

 humanistic departments of knowledge, have long 

 valued highly the help they receive from your journal. 

 As one of these, I desire to congratulate the con- 

 ductors of Nature on the services it has rendered, and 

 to express cordial wishes for its continued prosperity. 

 Sir Francis Darwin, F.R.S.— Nature has for a 

 number of years seemed to its many readers to be a 

 beneficent natural phenomenon occurring weekly. It 

 is wisely variegated so as to give just the type of 

 information and criticism that we need. I warmlv 

 congratulate the Editor on its jubilee. 



Prof. Wyndham R. Dunstan, C.M.G., F.R.S., 

 Director, Imperial Institute. — I gladly take this 

 opportunity, on the occasion of its jubilee, to con- 

 gratulate Nature on the important aid it has givijn 

 to scientific woi"!-; and interests, and on the position- 



