Principles and Practice of Scientific Research

Abstract

ONE pointer to the value of the voluminous literature on the management and conduct of research may often be seen in the scorings and marginal comments to be found, despite library rules, in the copies of such articles or books in the libraries serving large research departments. A research manager might do worse than pick up a few such articles after an interval and note the comments. The almost savage marking which the present writer found some years ago on a passage on signing letters in an article on research management suggested that in one department at any rate a canon of courtesy and of good management was honoured more in the breach than in the observance.

The Practice of Research in the Chemical Industries

By R. H. Griffith. Pp. vii + 184. (London: Oxford University Press, 1949.) 12s. 6d. net.

The Principles of Scientific Research

By Paul Freedman. Pp. 222. (London: Macdonald and Co., Publishers), Ltd., 1949.) 15s. net.