SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
combination of science and industry, and Sir Richard Glazebrook 
gained the respect and admiration of his theoretical and practical 
masters. But the financial responsibility was heavy and increasing, 
and from 1st April, 1918, the Department of Scientific and Indus- 
trial Research took over the burden. Fortunately, under the new 
arrangement, the Department assumes only the control necessary, 
for an accounting authority. Sir Richard will hand over to his 
distinguished successor, Professor Petavel, not only an institution 
of great and growing usefulness, but a tradition of harmonious 
co-operation between science and industry. He has provided the 
new Department of Scientific and Industrial Research with a 
working organization sufficient to justify their existence, and with 
a model on which we may suppose that their most successful 
creations—the Industrial Research Councils—have been formed 
MARINE RESEARCH. 
A Committee of the National Sea Fisheries Protection Association 
has prepared a scheme for fishery research, statistics, education, and 
propaganda in the United Kingdom. The main recommendations of 
the Committee are as follow:— 
(1) That the Government be requested to provide funds for a 
comprehensive scheme of research statistics for the fisheries of the 
United Kingdom on the lines set forth in this report. 
(2) That each Fishery Department be provided with a suitable 
scientific staff under a scientific director with well-equipped 
laboratories, and with sufficient steamers for research work and for 
the exploration of our fishing grounds. 
(3) That the Fishery Departments be requested to adopt the 
best means they can devise for securing the uniformity of fishery 
statistics, and the co-ordination of research work throughout the 
United Kingdom. : 
(4) That the Fishery Departments make suitable provision for 
the publication of scientific reports which are of importance to 
the industry, and, in particular, for the publication monthly of 
a fishery journal containing all information in regard to scientific 
results, statistics, statutes, orders, foreign intelligence, commercial 
information, and all other information likely to be of benefit to 
those carrying on the industry. 
(5) That the Fishery Departments and the Education Depart-_ 
ments of the three kingdoms be requested to co-operate in provid- 
ing a scheme of education on the general lines laid down in the 
report. it 
NATIONAL SAFETY AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 
The British Association, as an outcome of the comprehensive review 
of scientific work during the war, which formed a conspicuous part of 
the programme of the recent meeting in Bournemouth, has addressed the 
following resolution to the Prime Minister and the Treasury :—“ The 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, in.reviewing the 
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