. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 46. OCTOBER 1923. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing. , 23 Westminster Mansions, Great Smith Street, London, , to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; Singl
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 46. OCTOBER 1923. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing. , 23 Westminster Mansions, Great Smith Street, London, , to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; Single numbers, IS. net ; postage, 2d. Binding cases for Vol. Ill, 1922, are now ready. Price 25. 6d. net each; postage, gd. Editorial Notes An account of the principal addresses at the British Association's Meeting at Liverpool in September appears in this number. This account will, we hope, show the very definite work which scientists are doing in the solution of the thousand and one problems of our modern complex civilisation. It is evident to us that a marked change of feeling has come over the public in their attitude towards scientists during the last year or so. They are beginning to be listened to more seriously and the jokes about them in the press are rapidly vanishing ! People are realising that the word " scientist " is not synonymous with an old, hairy, bespectacled professor surrounded by books and bones or fumbling about with evil-smelling liquid concoctions. There is less opposition, too, than there was in Darwin's day between science and religion, and we have recently seen in the press the Dean of St. Paul's patting Mr. Julian Huxlej^, the well-known young Oxford biologist, on the back for an essay of his on " Science and Religion," albeit be made some errors in interpreting parts of this essay ! ***** Moreover, many of our modern scientists are adventurers not only in theories or in laboratory work, but in foreign lands and the few remaining unk
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