. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 37. JANUARY 1923. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, , Rothersthorpe. 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 Ofifice: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 125. (>d. post free ; single numbers, IS. net ; postag
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 37. JANUARY 1923. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, , Rothersthorpe. 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 Ofifice: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 125. (>d. post free ; single numbers, IS. net ; postage, 2d. Binding cases for Vol. \\. 1921, are now ready. Price 2s. 6d. net each ; postage gd. Editorial Notes With this number Discovery enters the fourth year of its existence. During the last year many advances were made in all branches of the Arts and Sciences. With those advances it has endeavoured to deal in articles that have avoided, as far as was possible, the technical language in use in each branch without at the same time losing sight of the necessity for an accurate and truthful interpretation of the results obtained by the careful research worker. To mention only a few articles, our journal has kept abreast of the steadily increasing use of wireless telegraphy, the new researches into the nature of radio-active elements, recent developments in aeronautics, the economic difficulties which have harassed Europe and our own country during 1922, the brave second attempt to climb Mount Everest,some intensely interesting archaeological discoveries in Egypt and Greece, the attempts to solve a variety of physiological problems, and some striking new theories put forward by the psychologist. ***** In our columns Professor Flinders Petrie has described the method he has been employing in Upper Egypt to reduce to historic order " what is usually called the Prehistoric Age " ; Professor Alfred Wegener has given the first description in EngHsh of his new theory of the or
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