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WHEN we were arranging for the publication during 1934 of notes on topics and events of scientific interest week by week a century ago, and of industrial changes or incidents in public affairs having contacts with science, we invited several contributors familiar with particular fields to send us occasional notes for this new “Calendar” of past occurrences. One of these contributors, who has special knowledge of social and political subjects, has carried his mind back to the beginning of the year 1834, and has sent us what might have been editorial comments upon some matters then under discussion. The columns of “Science News a Century Ago”, which we propose to publish throughout the year, will not usually be of the nature of comments but rather selected notes from papers or other publications during 1834. There is, however, so much of interest in our correspondent's retrospective remarks on the first day of that year that we have no hesitation in reproducing them below. The notes accurately represent the atmosphere at the time, and they remind us, among other things, that the United States had its gold problem then as now, and also that Empire communication as we know it to-day had no existence then.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 133, 18 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133018a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133018a0