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THE Sir Halley Stewart Lectures, 1935, reproduced in this volume were dealt with in NATURE at the time of their delivery. The collected volume offers the opportunity of intercomparison in relation to the aims of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, with their concern for the prevention and removal of human misery, the social relationships of man, the development of body, mind and spirit in the individual, of just environment in the community, and of “peace on earth” through international goodwill. The placing of the six lecturers in this series on “Scientific Progress” is an excellent, if highly individual and invidious, exercise. One reader would unhesitatingly put J. B. S. Haldane first, would hesitate between Mellanby and Huxley for second place, and with renewed firmness put Sir James Jeans last. So much for a physicist's view. What would the biologist say?
Scientific Progress
(Sir Halley Stewart Lectures, 1935.) By Sir. James Jeans, Sir. William Bragg, Prof. E. V. Appleton, Prof. E. Mellanby, Prof. J. B. S. Haldane, Prof. Julian Huxley. Pp. 210. (London: George Alien and Unwin, Ltd., 1936.) 7s. 6d. net.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 139, 463 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139463c0
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