SCIENCE AND THE NATION 



Essays by Cambridge Graduates 



with an Introduction by the 

 Right Hon. LORD MOULTON, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



Edited by A. C. SEWARD, F.R.S., 



Master of Downing College, Cambridge 

 Crown 8vo. pp. xxii + 328. Price 55 net. 



It is the aim of the authors of these essays to present the results of 

 experience in scientific investigation, to illustrate by concrete examples 

 the sources of progress in a few departments of knowledge and so make 

 clear to the layman the position of research as a factor in national 

 prosperity. Each Essay has been written by some one who, by lifelong 

 study and practice of the Branch of Science to which it relates, has 

 qualified himself to give a just and authoritative description of the 

 work that has already been done, as well as of the bearing of that work 

 on the present and its promise for the future. 



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. 



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