Phases of Modern Science

Abstract

THAT a space should have been set aside for scientific exhibits at the British Empire Exhibition is a compliment, well deserved but not the less welcome, to the progress of modern science. That the task of filling this space should fall upon the Royal Society was inevitable, and it would certainly be difficult to conceive, and impossible to convene, a stronger committee than that appointed by the Society for the purpose. The volume which we have before us, with the title “Phases of Modern Science,” contains a record of its second and revised version of a scientific exhibition. The actual guide to the exhibits occupies the second and smaller portion of the book. The first and larger part consists of articles, by many of our most eminent men of science, dealing, more or less directly, with the subjects which the exhibits are intended to illustrate. Chemistry is not dealt with, the exhibits in this branch of science having been arranged by the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers in the Palace of Industry.

Phases of Modern Science.

Published in connexion with the Science Exhibit arranged by a Committee of the Royal Society in the Pavilion of His Majesty's Government at the British Empire Exhibition, 1925. Pp. vii + 232. (London: A. and F. Denny, Ltd., 1925.) 3s. 6d.