. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 20. AUGUST 1921. PRICE Is. NET. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- DISCOVERY. ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, ;, Rotherstliorpe. Northampton, 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: 16 Regent Street, London, .\nnual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 20. AUGUST 1921. PRICE Is. NET. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- DISCOVERY. ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, ;, Rotherstliorpe. Northampton, 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: 16 Regent Street, London, .\nnual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2s. 6d. net each ; postage jld. Editorial Notes The first duty of the new editor of Discovery is to pay a cordial tribute to the skill and driving-power of his predecessor. Under Dr. Russell's guidance, during the nineteen months since its inauguration, this journal has supplied, with a steadily increasing range of infor- mation, a demand for knowledge in the wide field of the Arts and Sciences that has never before been known in this country. His successor is in the happy position of being able to build on firm foundations laid by him and by that group of intellectual men who conceived and put into being the idea of such a journal. That Discovery has before it all the opportunities for a high career there is no doubt; there would be no doubt even without the sohd success which it has already attained. The present times show many points of re- semblance to that sudden revival of learning and that quickening of national and indi%'idual imagination which coursed through Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. But, whereas that Renaissance was confined only to the more wealthy and powerful classes and the intellegentsia of Europe, the spirit of our own age is affecting all classes of our social complex. Signs of this new spirit were not wanting before the war; but, if the war did not create it, it matured its growth i
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