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MR. WATSON DAVIS, the director of Science Service in Washington, has recently explained the origin of his organisation and how it is working to-day in the United States.In 1910, E. W. Scripps, the founder of the famous group of newspapers that bears his name, began to believe that democracy would not develop unless it adopted a scientific approach to its problems. Two years later, in collaboration with Dr. W. E. Ritter, a biologist of the University of California, he founded Science Service, with trustees nominated by three scientific groups, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and two newspaper groups, the E. W. Scripps Estate and the journalistic profession.
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Science Service: The Popular Exposition of Science. Nature 164, 399 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164399c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164399c0