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WITH this issue we begin the publication of a weekly “Calendar of Discovery and Invention,”in which, so far as possible, each day will be used to recall some event of importance in the history of science and its application. The notes are being compiled by Engineer Capt. Edgar C. Smith, of the Science Museum, South Kensington, who some years ago contributed to our columns the Calendars of Scientific and Industrial Pioneers. It is not to be expected that every event of importance in the history of science will be referred to; such would be clearly impossible within the limits of a weekly column in a year's issue of NATURE. It is also obvious, from the nature of the records available, that the physical sciences and engineering are likely to figure in the column more than the biological sciences, medicine, and similar subjects, in which it is often difficult to assign the announcement of a discovery to a particular day. Suggestions regarding events suitable for inclusion in the column will be welcomed.
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News and Views. Nature 119, 22–25 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119022a0
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