Abstract
IN this volume Sir Lyon Playfair has collected a series of his essays, speeches, and lectures, composed or delivered during the last half-century. The volume is divided into three parts, the first dealing with questions relating to public health, the second with various economic problems, and the third (of course) with educational topics. Though most of the essays are more or less scientific in character and mode of treatment, only one is purely scientific, viz. that on “Sleep and some of its Concomitant Phenomena,” which contains, with a few alterations, the substance of a lecture delivered before the Royal Institution in 1846.
Subjects of Social Welfare.
By the Right Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair (London: Cassell, 1889.)
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Subjects of Social Welfare. Nature 40, 637–639 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040637b0
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