. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 22. OCTOBER 1921. 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: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 125. Od. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d. Binding cases for V
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. II, No. 22. OCTOBER 1921. 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: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, 125. Od. post free ; single numbers, IS. net; postage, 2d. Binding cases for Vol. I, 1920, are now ready. Price 2s. td. net each ; postage jjd. Editorial Notes The speech of the President of the British Association at Edinburgh this year was quieter in tone than the usual presidential address. There was nothing about our coal or our supplies of wheat getting rapidly ex- hausted, or about the origin of life, or of continuity of life after death. This was rather hard on the daily press. The press hkes the president to make sensational statements, so that when appropriately written up they may keep interest going for a few days at least. Yet the speech was a good one. Sir Edward Thorpe dealt with three main topics;' the work of the department of Science and Industrial Research, the recent work on " isotopes " and the structure of the atom, and the relation of organised science to the prosecution of war. * * * * * Of the second of these topics little need be said here, for two or three articles upon it have already appeared in our columns , but a word or two on the manner in which this subject was reported in some of the London daihes may not be out of place. It was not well done. Some reporters treated it as entirely new work, carried out perhaps in secret during the last'fortnight of August and whispered into the president's ear as he wTote his speech, and in many papers the description of the work even by Our Special Correspondent was not inform
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