THE August issue of Science and Culture, published in Calcutta under the auspices of the Indian Science News Association as “a monthly journal of natural and cultural sciences”, includes several important contributions and is in every way a credit to all who are concerned with its production. In the leading article on social implications of science, support is given for the movement represented by the committee on science and its social relationships of the International Council of Scientific Unions and the new Division of the British Association, and it is suggested that the Indian Science Congress Association should discuss the subject in a plenary session at the forthcoming meeting at Lahore. Sir James Jeans's lecture on the origin of the planets, delivered during the visit of delegates of the British Association to India, is published in the issue ; and among the subjects of other interesting articles are: electrical charge distribution in thunderclouds, chemical composition and nutritive value of bananas, and recent advances in the study of plant growth hormones. The speeches made by Sir John Simon and Sir William Bragg at the anniversary dinner of the Royal Society on November 30, 1937, are reprinted in full from the Notes and Records of the Society, the first issue of which appeared in April last, together with notes on the foundation and history of the Society from the same publication.