Science and Industry in Australia

Abstract

THE Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of the Commonwealth of Australia has decided to issue a quarterly journal which will provide a means of disseminating general information respecting Australian scientific problems and the scientific research work in progress throughout the Commonwealth, In a foreward to the first number of the new Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ¹ (August 1927), the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. S. M. Bruce) stresses the importance of making the best possible use of the relatively small personnel which is available for the scientific investigation of Australian problems. To this end, a Trust Fund of £250,000 has been created for the use of the Council during the first few years of its existence, while the interest on a further sum of £100,000 will be applied to the training of research students, particularly in the biological sciences. On the manufacturing side, the co-operation of the Council with the British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research will be facilitated by the recent visit of Sir Frank Heath to Australia (NATURE, 117, 460, 697; 1926), and it is hoped that co-operation in agricultural activities will be considered at the Imperial Agricultural Research Conference being held in London this month.