It seems to me a pity that Professor J. B.
S. Haldane should be giving up his Readership in Bio-themistry. Cambridge University. It is precisely because his tem- perament is so little that of a conventional Don that his, presence at one of the older Universities is a stimulating influence. He is not merely a brilliant biologist and exponent of Genetics, but he is rare in being exceptionally qualified to relate the special work of the scientist with all the ideas of modern life, and to write about it in an illuminating way. Apart from his technical work, he regards it as a part of his duty as a teacher to make the world " think scientifically." Unconventional, ingenious, provocative, Prof. Haldane is the sort of man of Whom it would not do to have fifty examples at Carnbridge. But the University ought to have one of him.
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