Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., has just issued the first number of a new quarterly journal, Endeavour, which is designed to record the progress of the sciences in the service of mankind and as evidence of British scientific enterprise. The issue, which is priced at 55., is well produced, carrying forty-eight pages of text, and well bound, with a drawing on the cover of the barque Endeavour which, commanded by Captain Cook, was sent out in 1768 by the British Admiralty to chart the South Pacific Ocean and observe the transit of Venus. After a brief statement by Lord McGowan of the purpose of the new journal, the number opens with a short article on “Science and the Community” by Sir William Bragg. The main feature of this initial number is Dr. H. Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal, on the “Distance of the Sun”. Other articles are equally as authoritative, as may be judged from the following selection: Dr. C. H. Waddington, “The Epigenotype”-the author's name for the whole complex of development processes which lie between genotype and phenotype ; J. G. Crowther, “Sciences in the U.S.S.R.”-though the author confines himself to the physical sciences; we suggest that this be followed by one on the biological, agricultural and medical sciences, for which the world has much to thank the U.S.S.R. ; A. L. Bacharach, "The Manufacture and Use of Vitamins"-in which emphasis is placed on British contributions to this important branch of science ; G. V. Jacks, “Prospects for Soil Conservation”; F. Fairbrother, “The Cyclotron” etc.