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THE first number of a new shilling quarterly called Oxford Science, edited and published by the Junior Seiexrce Club, and printed at the Oxford University Press, appeared this week. All new journals of this kind are necessarily precarious ventures, but there are good hopes that this one will fulfil the need it has been produced to meet. It is taking the place of the Transactions of the Club, which have been published now for more than fifty years. It will contain the more important lectures given from time to time to the Club, discuss problems connected with study and research in science and medicine at Oxford and review the work of the different scientific departments. The opening number contains the Robert Boyle lecture by Sir Edward Mellanby on methods of discovery in the fight against disease, an article by Prof. F. Paneth on atomic transmutation, an account of recent investigations on the structure of proteins by D. Parker Riley and an article discussing and criticizing medical curricula by one of the medical tutors. Some of the articles are illustrated. There are also editorial and other notes and a few book reviews. Altogether this is a lively first number that should make a wide appeal to the student of science interested in other sciences besides his own and in the problems that their impact on the world and the university has produced.
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Oxford Science. Nature 142, 948–949 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142948d0
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