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MR. WILLIAMSON'S letter in NATURE of May 27, in which he criticises the attitude of Prof. Soddy and that of the National Union of Scientific Workers towards the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the struggling research associations, confuses the issue. To attack the Department or association entrusted with industrial research is tantamount neither to attacking industrial research nor to making invidious distinctions between pure and applied research.

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CHURCH, A. Applied Science and Industrial Research. Nature 105, 423 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105423a0

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