Science: Congress

Isostasy (theory of the maintenance of the equilibrium of the spinning world) was a major topic among the 2,000 members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, who met at Southampton, England, last week. So also was parthenogenesis— female moths, sawflies having propogated themselves for nine generations without male assistance. So also the cancer germ, recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE) —it was about to be shown in cinema. The learned men and women treated de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis, and then went home to wait the official...

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