IN an address to the Georgia Press Institute and the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, University of Georgia, onFebruary 19, Mr. Watson Davis, director of Science Service, discussing the news value of science, suggested that thoughwe have largely left the stage in which the man of science was regarded as a mysterious being or magician, possessed of powers for good or ill, and regarded him as a person who could provide us with many of the wonders of our daily life, we have yet to reach the stage in which science is regarded as a guide for personal conduct and political affairs. That will come as fast as education in the scientific habit of thinking, particularly through the Press, allows it to come. Great improvements have been witnessed in the fifteen years since Science Service was first formed for the reporting and interpretation of science, and the cooperation established in this way between journalists and men of science in the United States has already had very valuable results.Science is receiving much more serious attention from the daily Press, and already a number of science editors are on the staffs of American newspapers. The combination of journalistic ability and scientific attainment which is essential in a good interpreter is, however, not easy to find, and Mr. Davis also emphasised the danger which the very popularisation of science may offer to the maintenance of scientific standards. Inaccuracy must not be the price of more effective distribution of scientific knowledge to the public.