Abstract
IT is twenty-eight years since, at the 250th anniversary of its incorporation, the Royal Society last issued an edition of its “Record”. A possessor of the volume of 1912 will find, on studying that of 1940, that, although the two are almost uniform in outward and inward physique and necessarily have various parts of the text in common, there is so much that is new and valuable in the present edition that ownership of the earlier volume does not exempt him from having this also. Nor should its use be limited to scientific persons: any student of the general history of our time who ignores it, or treats cursorily what it can show him, would miss something that is vital to his theme.
The Record of the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge
Fourth edition. Pp. viii + 578 + 19 plates. (London: Royal Society, 1940.) 21s. net.
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MASSON, J. The Record of the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge. Nature 145, 873–874 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145873a0
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