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AT a meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Johannesburg on May 16, it was resolved that the Association should commence publication at the earliest possible date of a monthly periodical covering the whole field of science. The venture will be paid for by the Association and will not be in any way a profit-making organisation ; it is intended that the journal should be distributed free to all members of the Association, and that it may later be made available for sale to the public. It is hoped to present leading articles, reviews of books, and articles of a general character, and to devote three or four pages to “Letters to the Editor”, a section which it is hoped will become a forum for scientific discussion. It is intended that articles, etc., should be of such a nature as to appeal to scientific workers in fields other than those of their own speciality, and it is believed there will be sufficient popular material to appeal to the more general reader of scientific interests. The journal will be produced by the Association, the honorary editor being Dr. H. B. S. Cooke, of the University of the Witwatersrand.
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A Science Journal for South Africa. Nature 159, 803 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159803d0
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