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YOUR correspondent Mr. J. W. Williamson says in NATURE of May 27 that much of my criticism of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research “seems to lend colour” to current misconceptions of industrial research, which he proceeds to construct out of his own imagination, having first fathered them on me, and then submits that the cause of pure science is not well served by inconsiderate attacks on the industrial research movement, such as he would have it believed I made. I judge from this that he was not present at the meeting, and I therefore wish it to be known that the full text of my address to the National Union of Scientific Workers can be obtained by forwarding a stamped addressed foolscap cover to the General Secretary, 19 Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W.I. If Mr. Williamson will have the goodness to read it and the full report of the meeting published in the current issue of the Scientific Worker, the official organ of the union, and then say, if he still desires, what he objects to, it would help rather than confuse the issue.
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SODDY, F. Applied Science and Industrial Research. Nature 105, 422 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105422c0
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