12 SCIENCE 



Cattle to the best advantage, and how to use 

 them when bought/' I must refer you to the 

 book itself for the solution. From Prof. 

 Biffen's paper we learn how improvements of 

 enormous value have been effected in wheat 

 suitable for growing in England. 



The war has brought home to us, in a way 

 that only an event of its magnitude can do, 

 the dependence of the modern world on science 

 and the advancement of natural knowledge: 

 the need then is that when peace comes we 

 should use this great power to the full to 

 repair the ravages of war. 



A recent number of the Times Literary 

 Supplement contained an interesting com- 

 parison between the forces at work in moulding 

 the world now and in the first century of our 

 era. It took the form of a review of Mr P. E. 

 Matheson's edition of the works of Epictetus, 

 and in it the author writes "How much, for 



