Abstract
THE representative of NATURE looking for points of scientific interest amongst the fourteen hundred or so annual exhibits at the Royal Academy may be excused if he sometimes feels depressed and is reminded ef the proverbial searcher after a needle in a haystack, in so few of the pictures do objects having any direct connection with science appear. It has in past years been remarked that purely scientific work does not yet appeal to the Academy artist, and it is necessary to turn for points of interest to nature scenes such as may be found in pictures of sea, sky, snow, and country life.
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D., J. The Royal Academy. Nature 109, 586–587 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109586a0
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