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Abstract

A ROYAL garden party was held on Wednesday, June 14, and was attended by about six thousand guests. At the end of the official record of notable people present, supplied to the Times by the “Court Newsman,” we read:—”Invitations were issued to their Excellencies the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, with the personnel of their Embassies and Legations, the members of the Government, the Households of the King and Queen and of the Royal Family, and to many peers, members of Parliament, naval and military officers, clergy, and representatives of the musical, dramatic, and literary professions, many of whom with their wives and daughters were present at the party.” We believe His Majesty the King is interested in the scientific as in the other activities of his subjects; but if so, it is clear that he is very badly served by the Lord Chamberlain's office, which is responsible for the issue of the invitations. Apparently, this department of the State has not yet realised that science is the only true basis of a nation's welfare and progress, and that scientific men exist in Britain. A few of the most distinguished Fellows of the Royal Society would represent the best interests, of the nation even more effectively than actors and musicians.