SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vor. I.] NOVEMBER, 1919. [No. 7. 
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. 
Neither, the Directorate of the Institute nor the editor takes any responsi- 
bility for views expressed by contributors under their own names. 
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No responsibility can be taken for the return of proffered MSS., though 
every effort will be made to do so where the contribution offered is regarded as 
unsuitable. 
Besides articles, letters to the editor and short paragraphs of scientific interest, 
- as well as personal notes regarding scientists, will be acceptable. 
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Articles may be freely reprinted, provided due acknowledgment is made 
of their source. 
Science, the Press, and the Public. 
a) the recent meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, a paper was read on the subject 
of “The Press as an Intermediary between the Investi- 
gator and the Public.” Not many years ago it is 
doubtful whether there would have been any wnanimous or imme- 
diate assent to the doctrine that any merely popular intermediary 
between the scientific investigator and the public was even desirable. 
During recent years, however, the widespread movement for the applica- 
tion of science to industry has brought about a radical change of feeling 
on the part of industrial research workers to the whole question of pub- 
licity, and it is now recognised that the sympathy and support of the 
public press will play an increasingly important part in promoting the 
success of that movement. By this it is not intended to suggest that the 
press should support any particular scheme of organization for the 
application of science to industry, but that by opening its columns regu- 
larly for the publication of articles relating to scientific matters, the 
press can go far towards imbuing the people with that scientific spirit 
without which no nation can achieve eminence or success of the first 
order. As Mr. Hughes pointed out at the initial Conference in 1916, 
when the scheme for the Institute was launched, we must get the people 
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