Science and Citizenship 



that the most abstruse and recondite of scientific 

 journals is nothing but a variety of the familiar 

 publication known as Notes and Queries in its 

 higher form, and in its lower forms, Tit-Bits 

 and Answers. It would indeed introduce an 

 agreeable and useful uniformity in periodical 

 nomenclature if there could be one generic name 

 with adjectival differentiations, such, for instance, 

 as the Zeitschrift fur Socialwissenschaft calling 

 itself Social Notes and Queries, and the Archiv 

 fur Rassen und Gesellschafts biologie calling itself 

 Race Notes and Queries, and so forth. That 

 the analogy between the popular and scientific 

 variety is real and not fanciful will further be 

 recognised when it is observed that what are called 

 conundrums and solutions in the one, are called 

 memoirs and hypotheses in the other. And more- 

 over the successful contributors are, it will be 

 seen by reference to the above description of the 

 Royal Geographical Society, rewarded, if not by 

 participation in a guinea prize, yet by one or other 

 of " the two Royal Gold Medals which are awarded 

 annually/' and "the Victoria Medals which are 

 awarded at intervals." 



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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 

 consists of two parts. There is in each month's 

 Journal a bundle of maps and a budget of letter- 

 press. In order to utilise the resources of the 

 society, which functions through its Journal and 



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