. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 38. FEBRUARY 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. 2
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE Vol. IV, No. 38. FEBRUARY 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. IH, 1922, are now ready. Price 2s. 6rf. net each ; postage gd. Editorial Notes Nothing in the \\ of archfeological discoverit-s has so stirred the world as Lord Carnarvon's and Mr. Howard Carter's successful excavations, resulting in the finding of Tutankhamon's funerary relics, in Upper Egypt. In this issue we publish an article by Professor T. E. Peet on the life of this monarch and a description by Dr. A. M. Blackman of the plundering of the Tombs of the Kings in the XXth and XXIst Dynasties, which accounts for the rarit\' of such a " ; To him who is interested in the history of mankind the chief value of the discovery wUl doubtless lie in the new light which the papyri wUl throw upon this stage of the world's civilisation,and, even more especially, in the beauty of the furniture and other articles in the tomb. .\lmost every day brings news of some remarkable invention which will increase the comfort of, and the means of communication between, the inhabitants of our earth. The fact is that, ever since the introduc- tion of steam power in the beginning of the last cen- tury, mankind has improved its methods of living and accelerated his knowledge of the universe to a greater extent than in the whole ten or twelve thousand years of civilisation preceding this event. During the last few years we have so developed the wireless system t
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