SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vor. 1.] ee VIEASYeue LiL Os [No. 1. 
EDITOR'S NOTES. 
The columns of this Journal are open to all scientific workers in Australia, 
whether they are or are not directly associated with the work of the Institute. 
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F oreword. 
Conceived in war and born as one of the first fruits of Peace, this 
Journal sets out with the idea of affording a suitable and authoritative 
medium for the expression of Australian’ scientific thought and aspira- 
tions. f 
One of the objects of the Institute is to co-ordinate scientific work 
carried out in the Commonwealth.’ It is necessary not only that the 
research worker in Queensland should know what the research worker 
in Western Australia is doing, but he should know it promptly and 
accurately. It is not true that the Commonwealth Institute of Science 
and Industry merely intends to overlap into State spheres. Far from . 
doing this, it will tend to obviate that large measure of overlapping 
that now exists. This journal will be one of the instruments by which 
that desirable end is attained. 
_As things stand to-day, scientific research work in Australia suffers 
severely from two desiderata. There is a paucity of trained men, and 
there is also a scarcity of the necessary apparatus. There are too few 
laboratories, and too few men to fill them. That being so, it is very 
essential that the best possible results should be obtained from the limited 
‘man-power and material available. The Institute cannot, nor does it 
wish to, dictate. Many of the scientific workers of Australia are quite 
beyond its control. But it ean encourage, and it can itself refuse to find 
money for overlapping investigations. 
The colunins of Science and Industry are to be freely open to all 
scientific investigators, no matter whether they come directly under the 
‘gis of the Institute or not. It will be an informative rather than con- 
troversidl medium. Its standard will be high, but it will not be so lofty 
as to discourage the timid or damp the ardour of the enthusiastic. In 
its pages a strenuous endeavour will at all times be made to maintain, 
unsullied the highest traditions of Science. 
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