ABSTRACT
Science is an international concern. Any paper on pure science becomes the property of the whole world the moment it is published. And the special scientific terminology so frequently termed jargon is, with all its faults, an international language. One can get the gist of a scientific paper in any European tongue, and even amid a wilderness of Japanese script one comes across oases of mathematical expressions, numerical tables, and chemical formulae. Musical notation is more nearly international, but it must be remembered that many Oriental peoples employ a scale very different from our own. 'German' science in the last forty years has been largely Jewish, in spite of the very unfavourable conditions under which the Jews worked. The United States produce a colossal volume of scientific work, of very unequal merit. Where endowment can assure results, they lead the world. Their astronomical observations form the bulk of international output, though their interpretation often comes from England, Germany, or Holland.
