Abstract
SIR RAY LANKESTER'S weekly contributions to The Daily Telegraph represent the high-water mark of popular papers on scientific subjects. The general public has in recent years been infected with a feverish desire for sensation; and as science can offer little to gratify that appetite, thoughtful articles upon its achievements are now relatively much fewer in the periodical Press than they were a generation or two ago. Possibly men of science are partly to blame for this state of affairs. They must be specialists in order to make progress in their own particular fields of inquiry; and they are often not only themselves unfamiliar with the commonest vocabularies of other departments of natural knowledge, but also regard the endeavour to create a comprehensive interest in nature as a thing of little importance.
Science from an Easy Chair.
Second Series. By Sir Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S.. Pp. xiii + 412. (London: Adlard and Son, 1912.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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Science from an Easy Chair . Nature 90, 538–539 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090538b0
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