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This article on the Rothschild and Dainton reports by Sir Gordon Cox, formerly secretary of the Agricultural Research Council, is based on a public lecture given in the University of Leeds on February 8, 1972.
This comment on the Rothschild and Dainton reports is by Dr M. Gibbons and Dr R. D. Johnston of the Department of Liberal Studies in Science, University of Manchester.
