(1) Major Mysteries of Science (2) Electrical Conceptions of To-day: a Lucid Explanation of many of the Latest Theories concerning Atoms, Electrons and other matters relating to Electricity (3) Exploring the Upper Atmosphere (4) The Progress of Science: an Account of Recent Fundamental Researches in Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Abstract

IT is something of a commonplace to say that we might well suspend research work and devote ourselves to the formidable task of ensuring that the products of achieved research are assimilated into the life-stream of the community. This is just as true, and just as misleading, as another commonplace about the world disease which, with an unconscious irony of bitter flavour, is called ‘over-production’. If, in fact, the producers who have done their work so well could readily—and temporarily—be transformed into distributors, of equal merit, then in the wider and narrower sphere alike the world would be better off. But, in both spheres, the bravest of all new worlds would result from leaving the uniquely qualified producers to continue their beneficent work, and entrusting the work of dissemination and assimilation to other minds of quantitatively equal but qualitatively different merit.

(1) Major Mysteries of Science.

By H. Gordon Garbedian. Pp. 320 + 64 plates. (London: Selwyn and Blount, Ltd., n.d.) 18s.

(2) Electrical Conceptions of To-day: a Lucid Explanation of many of the Latest Theories concerning Atoms, Electrons and other matters relating to Electricity.

By Charles R. Gibson. Pp. 284 + 8 plates. (London: Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 6s. net.

(3) Exploring the Upper Atmosphere.

By Dorothy Fisk. Pp. 166. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1934.) 6s. net.

(4) The Progress of Science: an Account of Recent Fundamental Researches in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

By J. G. Crowther. Pp. x + 304 + 12 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.