Scientific Progress.

First US edition, originally published in the UK in the same year. A beautiful copy in an unusually nice example of the dust jacket.

Scientific Progress comprises six essays that were originally presented as a lecture series for the Halley Stewart Trust, a charity that awards grants for projects intended to prevent human suffering, in 1935. The authors were all leading British academics, including Sir James Jeans who writes on the history of astronomy; Sir William Bragg on advancements in the physical sciences; Julian Huxley on 'science and its relation to social needs', and J.B.S. Haldane on eugenics with a paper titled 'human genetics and human ideals'.

First US edition, first printing; 8vo; 2 double-sided plates, illustrations throughout the text, bookseller's ticket to front free endpaper, endpapers partially toned and lightly spotted, top edge of text block lightly toned and spotted, contents fresh; original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, a very good copy in the price-clipped jacket; 210pp.