Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland Thirty-seventh Annual Issue

Abstract

We Welcome the thirty-seventh edition of this useful, annual, which is invaluable as a guide to the many scientific societies, of local as well as of more general interest, in the United Kingdom. In it will be found a record of the work done in science, literature, and art during the academic year 1919-20, and it is gratifying to note that the small increase in price is balanced by an increase in size of nearly twenty pages, which testifies amply to the further activities of our men of science. The volume is divided into a number of sections dealing respectively with science generally; astronomy; mathematics and physics; chemistry; geography and geology; biology; economics; mechanical sciences; naval and military science; agriculture; law; literature and history; psychology; archaeology; and medicine. A noteworthy feature is the inclusion of particulars from scientific institutions and departments con-, nected with Government service. Among these are the Meteorological Office, the National Physical Laboratory, the Geological Survey, the Natural History Museum, the Ministry of Health, the Medical Research Council, the Royal Observatory, and the Imperial Institute. That the work is up to date is shown by the inclusion of the Institute of Physics, which was incorporated during the past year. We have so far noted one omission only-the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau.

Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. Thirty-seventh Annual Issue.

Pp. vi + 354. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1920.) 15s.