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IT is one of the privileges of the study of science to-day that it gives to the student a perspective and a sense of proportion that has a wonderfully steadying effect in these anxious days, and thanks to the happy decision of Sir Albert Seward to leave technicalities aside in his presidential address to the British Association, which is printed in the Supplement to this issue of NATURE, his listeners and his readers have had their thoughts tuned to a sense of distance and of time which permits a saner contemplation of the present temporary European turmoil.
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A Palæobotanical Retrospect. Nature 144, 395–396 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144395a0
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