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THE librarian of Middlesbrough Public Libraries has made an interesting experiment in endeavouring to guide his readers towards an intelligent use of works of general science. A pamphlet entitled “How to Understand the Sciences” (pp. 28) offers a very readable commentary upon well-known books dealing with scientific subjects in a popular way, and suggests a graduated course of reading, suitable for the plain man, in physics, chemistry, biology and general science. If Mr. Lillie's comments do not increase the intelligent reading of the scientific works in his libraries by the ordinary citizen, nothing will.
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Popular Reading of Scientific Books. Nature 137, 230 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137230b0
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