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Oxford Science makes a welcome reappearance after an absence of nearly nine years. Under the general editorship of F. A. Holland, it gives a survey of scientific development in the University of Oxford and is particularly designed to keep the person with a scientific education informed of the progress made in fields of science other than his own. Articles in the present issue (2, No. 1, June 1948) are by A. J. Birch and D. K. C. MacDonald on metal-ammonia solutions ; C. J. Dickenson on functional organisation within the cell ; J. D. Dunitz and S. C. Wall work on some developments in structural chemistry ; A. H. Cooke on magnetism at low temperatures, and H. M. Sinclair on nutritional science. In the editorial, reference is made to the part played by Oxford men of science in the nation's war effort, to the new laboratories under construction or about to be constructed, and to the closing down of the last of the college laboratories, so that laboratory teaching is now entirely in the hands of the University staffs. Only brief mention is made of the important physical work done in the new Clarendon Laboratory ; but a fuller report can be found in Oxford, 9, No. 2, p. 54 (1946-47). Those interested in the progress of chemistry at Oxford may like to refer to the article by F. M. Brewer in Oxford, 9, No. 3, p, 98 (1948), which is very informative.
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Oxford Science. Nature 162, 408 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162408c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162408c0