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Very Good in Good Plus jacket. 8vo. Foreword by Frederick White. xi, 203 pages, portrait frontis: W M Hughes, and b/w ports, appendices. Presentation card (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the official entury of the Commonwealth Government into the field of scientific research) lightly attached to the front paste-down. Red cloth boards, lightly flecked, in dust-jacket which is a little soiled, with wear at its upper edge. From the Foreword, 'The book covers the period in the history of Australia when scientists and men of vision convinced the political leaders of their day that scientific discovery could render valuable service to their developing country'.