Abstract
BRAILSFORD ROBERTSON devoted a brief but intensive life to scientific research, during which he found time to write essays of a more general appeal, some of which are collected here in book form. Born in Edinburgh, he went at an early age to Adelaide, and after a period of thirteen years in California, returned there as professor of physiology in 1919, where he died in 1930. This book, which in a sense is a memorial volume, is an all-Australian production: we like to regard it as a symbol that the torch of scientific truth burns brightly under the Southern Cross.
The Spirit of Research.
By Dr. T. Brailsford Robertson. Edited by Jane W. Robertson. Pp. xiv + 210 + 2 plates. (Adelaide: F. W. Preece and Sons, 1931.) 8s. 6d. net.
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A., E. The Spirit of Research . Nature 131, 111–112 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131111a0
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