SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
scientific workers on. the one hand and the people on the other, and of 
disseminating the results of investigation and research among the 
people in a way they can understand. ‘They bring before the people 
in a form which they can grasp and utilize the latest facts concerning 
food, hygiene, natural resources, agriculture and dairy processes, house- 
hold interests and domestic science, engineering and manufacturing pro- 
cesses, discoveries affecting the prevention and cure of disease, economic 
questions, and many other questions affecting the social, educational, 
and political environment of the individual. In short, they gather 
the stores of contemporary information from the expert and the research 
worker, and pass them on in simple and practical form. The general 
appreciation, thus engendered, of the~ practical value of scientific 
research, and of the necessity for scientific guidance, is in no small 
degree responsible for the wonderful industrial progress of America. 
It is not suggested that in Australia we can yet embark upon any 
such comprehensive schemes as those adopted in America for the dis- 
semination of knowledge of scientific methods. Much can, however, 
be done in this direction with practically no additional expenditure of 
money, provided the sympathy and support of both the Australian press 
and Australian scientists are forthcoming. The Saturday and Sunday 
editions of our daily newspapers would afford an admirable means for 
the dissemination. of scientific information. The Australian scientist 
_ must, however, present his facts in such a way that they are readily 
understood by the non-scientific reader, and that they will be acceptable 
for publication. If he will realize the primary importance of the 
picturesque, and the necessity for stimulating human interest, he can 
do much to unlock the door which has in the past largely kept science 
out of the most widely circulated of all publications. It is hoped that 
the Institute will be able to act as the medium through which this 
important work can be accomplished. 
® —G. L. 
Se , 
“Let us arouse the people of our country to the wonderful 
possibilities of scientific discovery and to the responsibility to 
support it which rests upon them, and I am sure they will 
respond generously and effectively.” 
~—Colonel J. J. Carty, Vice-president of the American Telephone and 
' Telegraph Company. 
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