These Chapters Have To Do Largely With Recent Conditions. Now And Again, To Be Sure, They Hark Back Into The Past, As When They Tell Of The Origin Of Such Institutions As The British Museum, The Royal Society, And The Royal Institution; Or When The Visitor In Modern Jena Imagines Himself Transplanted Into The Jena Of The Sixteenth Century. Our Chief Concern Is With Strictly Contemporary Events – With The Deeds And Personalities Of Scientific Investigators Who Are Still In The Full Exercise Of Their Varied Powers.
