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OF recent years the desirability of establishing a closer relationship than exists at present between the very different realms of science and the newspaper press has been realised by an increasing number of leaders in both; and a year ago attention was again directed to the movement towards a British Science News Service by Sir Richard Gregory, who made “Science in the Public Press” the subject of his presidential address to the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. The formation of a British Science Service, either as an independent venture or as a London bureau of Science Service of the United States, had long been desired by the director of Science Service, Mr. Watson Davis, and after a necessary period of preliminary discussion and experiment an organisation in the second form has recently been opened at 102-5 Shoe Lane, London, E.C.4, under the direction of Mr. Donald Caley. About twenty representatives of different departments of pure and applied science, including Sir F. G. Hopkins, president of the Royal Society, have consented individually to act in consultative capacities in connexion with this London organisation. The co-operation of scientific workers with the new venture is invited, by supplying information relating to researches on which they are engaged (such information to be treated as confidential when and for as long as desired); sending advance proofs of original communications to scientific journals which they edit or control, or regular copies of the journals, which will invariably be mentioned in newspaper summaries; and to make to Mr. Donald Caley any suggestions which may help him to increase the scope and usefulness of the organisation.
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A Science News Service in London. Nature 136, 542–543 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136542c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136542c0