The Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland: a Record of the Work done in Science, Literature, and Art during the Session 1925–1926, by numerous Societies and Government Institutions

Abstract

To those who have used this work of reference, the new issue requires no commendation. For those who have not yet handled it, emphasis may be laid on the words from the title-page: “Compiled from Official Sources.” The information provided as to the titles, addresses, officers, and activities of the scientific and learned societies and Government institutions in Great Britain and Ireland has been obtained from officials of the societies concerned, so the volume serves as a directory. In addition, the lists of authors and titles of papers presented before each society during 1925 gives some indication of the amount and direction of progress made in science and the arts. Take, for example, the Royal Society: the total number of papers, 226, shows great activity in the scientific world, while the fact that nearly three-quarters of them were published in Series A of the Transactions or Proceedings testifies to the fertile field of the mathematical and physical sciences.

The Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland: a Record of the Work done in Science, Literature, and Art during the Session 1925–1926, by numerous Societies and Government Institutions.

Compiled from Official Sources. Forty-third Annual Issue Pp. vii + 399. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1926.) 18s. net.