30 JANUARY 1915, Page 15

The Morning Post has published several letters recently from correspondents

of weight inviting the Government to make a more definite call upon the acientifio brains of the country. "We are far behind the Germans," says one oorrespondeut, " in the consistent and detailed application of science to the conduct of war." An "auxiliary thinking arm," he suggests, should be established for the solution of chemical, mechanical, and other problems. The proposal recalls to us the recent remark of an officer: "Every man of science in Germany is engaged in thinking from morning to night how he can kill Englishmen. Probably our own chemists are investigating the uses of radium in the cure of influenza, or something of that sort."