. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 39. MARCH 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 Office: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d. B
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 39. MARCH 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 Office: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 12s. 6d. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d. Binding cases for Vol. IIL 1922, are now ready. Price 2s. 6d. net each ; postage gd. Editorial Notes There is a tale of three eminent botanists—a French- man, a German, and an Englishman—who were stranded on an ocean island where there were only fourteen varieties, all told, of green plants. Fortitn- ately, one of these was new to science ; unfortunately none of these scientists knew a word of any language save his own. Such a momentous discovery (made, as it happened, simultaneously by all three botanists, since the whole island was carpeted with the flower, a species of daisy) called for deep discussion. It is said that science found out a way, and in an intricate language evolved by stringing together the Latin names of well-known flowers, the international con- ference unanimously decided that the .*lower was a daisy, but rather less so than most daisies. The tale may be exaggerated ; it must be admitted that the problem of verbs must have been acute. But it serves to point a moral—that in a world where the influences which separate nations are all too many, in science and in the pursuit of what we mean by that disgraced word "culture," there are influences which work power- fully in the direction of friendship and mutual esteem. ***** In this world of unattained ideals and fruitless labours, one individual has an easy road to eminence, and that individual is
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