Abstract
PROF. C. A. COULSON'S inaugural lecture as the first professor of theoretical physics at King's College, London, which he delivered on March 2, 1948, is printed in full in the July issue of Science Progress (36, 436 ; 1948). Taking as his subject, "Wave Mechanics in Physics, Chemistry and Biology", Dr. Coulson shows, by several well-chosen examples, that wave mechanics, in spite of its early successes, does not provide neat, complete solutions to all physical and chemical problems, thus obviating experimental research ; but, as a branch of theoretical physics, is most useful in correlating different pieces of information and in bringing out the essential underlying character of what is observed and measured.
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