Science To-day and To-morrow

Abstract

MUCH more is done in the United States than in Great Britain to interest the general public in scientific progress. Nearly twenty years ago, the late Mr. E. W. Scripps, a newspaper proprietor and editor, provided a sum of more than 100,000 dollars to establish the organization called Science Service, with a staff of competent writers who simplify and illuminate scientific news for the public Press; and newspapers in all parts of the country are subscribers to this service. Many of the leading newspapers have, in addition, permanent members of their editorial staffs to describe and comment upon scientific matters. Dr. Kaempffert, the author of this book, occupies an honoured position of this kind, as science editor of the New York Times; and his contributions are widely read and appreciated. Some of the material in the book appeared originally in that newspaper and other magazines; and all of it represents the reactions of an informed and thoughtful mind to the results of scientific investigations in the realm of natural knowledge.

Science To-day and To-morrow

By Waldemar Kaempffert. Pp. 262. (London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, Ltd., 1940.) 10s. 6d. net.