Abstract
SIR GEORGE STAPLEDON is perhaps the greatest living example of a type of scientific mind which with increasing academic specialization and on account of the change in the nature of scientific inquiry towards the quantitative rather than the qualitative is less common than it was. He might be compared with the Darwins, John Bennet Lawes, and K. Timiriazev [see p. 138 of this issue] in being well known beyond the walls of universities and in having found his best inspiration outside the laboratory and with a social rather than a theoretical leaning. His bent may be called the generalizing descriptive, distinct from the taxonomic and the quantitative ; it is clear from this book that he prefers the energetic to the inductive, and H. Bergson to R. A. Fisher. His greatest admiration for a man of science is bestowed on G. Turesson, the Swedish student of plant ecotypes.
The Way of the Land
By Sir George Stapledon. Pp. 276. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1943.) 12s. 6d. net.
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NICOL, H. The Way of the Land. Nature 152, 118 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152118a0
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