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WITH the object of promoting attention to the importance of research-both purely scientific and technical-and the utilisation of its results in the service of mankind, the British Science Guild arranged last year for the delivery of a Research and Development Lecture by Sir Harold Carpenter on “Metals in Industry”. It was originally intended that one such lecture should be delivered annually, but Lord Melchett, president of the Guild, has given the scheme much wider national significance by arranging several discourses in which the broad trend of scientific development of subjects will be illustrated by experiments and practical demonstrations. By kind permission of the managers, the lectures will be delivered in the historic lecture theatre of the Royal Institution. The first of the lectures, at which the Prime Minister will preside, is to be delivered as we go to press, on Wednesday, May 2, by Sir William Bragg on “The Development of the Principles of Refrigeration”; and the second, on Wednesday, May 30, by Lord Rutherford on “Helium and other Rare Gases”. It is hoped to arrange for two further lectures of the same type to be delivered in the autumn.
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Research and Development Lectures. Nature 133, 677–678 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133677d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133677d0