Science and Government

Abstract

SIR W. T. THISELTON-DYER agrees, at all events, that the attitude of British statesmen towards science leaves much to be desired. Statistics can, of course, be treated in many different ways, but, despite the criticisms in the above letter, the general conclusion of the article referred to remains substantially correct. The data are avowedly incomplete; only those who have attempted to collate the material scattered throughout Government publications appreciate wholly the difficulty of the task.