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A PERUSAL of the Report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for the year 1927–28 (Cmd. 3258. London: H.M.S.O.), which includes a summary review of the work carried out under the various research organisations of the Department during the year, will provide the reader with abundant evidence of the wide range of the activities and responsibilities of the Department. The position of the research associations formed tinder the aegis of the Department is discussed elsewhere in this issue (p. 749). The National Physical Laboratory and the Geological Survey have been for some years under the general direction and control of the Department; and there are between forty and fifty research boards and committees, dealing with such diverse subjects as chemistry, fabrics, engineering, metallurgy, physics, radiology, building, architectural acoustics, heating and ventilation, food, forest products, fuel, atmospheric pollution, national coal resources, water pollution, adhesives, dental investigations, gas cylinders, illumination, lubrication, and X-rays. To attempt to give, in a reasonable allowance of space, a condensed compendium of what the report has to say on all, or even most, of these activities, is obviously impossible, and we must be content to select, more or less at random, some features of interest.
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The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Nature 123, 779–780 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123779a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123779a0