SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
in the laboratory. The results of this work show that the time occupied 
in making the bread from start to finish can be very considerably re- 
duced. This may, therefore, have an important bearing on the solution 
of the day-baking trouble. 
Nrrrocen Requirements. 
As a result of a request for information as to Australia’s nitrogen 
requirements received from the British Nitrogen Products Committee, 
inquiries into this matter have been carried out. The objects of the 
British Committee are to consider the relative advantages for Great 
Britain and for the Empire of the various methods for the fixation of 
atmospheric nitrogen from the point of view both of war and of peace 
purposes. 
Cuemicats ComMITrEr, 
A large number of inquiries and investigations has been carried out 
by the Chemicals Committee, and a considerable number of analyses 
has been made of raw materials which promise to have an economic 
value. _ Valuable service to several important industries has been 
rendered through the special knowledge and advice of members of this 
Committee. 
If we are to prove ourselves fittest to survive in this 
great struggle we must walk with science hand in hand. 
We must seek its aid in order to achieve victory, we must 
enlist its services in order to prepare to meet the conditions 
which will arise after the war. 
—W. M. HUGHES. 
