Table of Contents

Margaret Gowing - an appreciation, Lord Bullock; science and government - John Phillips (1800-74) and the early ordnance geological survey of Britain, J.Morrell; science and the public good - George Biddell Airy (1801-92) and the concept of a scientific civil servant, A.Chapman; the road to Albertpolis - Richard Owen (1804-92) and the founding of the British Museum of Natural History, N.A.Rupke; sonar, wireless telegraphy and the Royal Navy - scientific development in a military context, 1890-1939, W.Hackmann; the Rockefeller Foundation and the German biomedical sciences, 1920-40 - from educational philanthropy to international science policy, P.Weindling; science and power in the Soviet Union, D.Holloway; forty years into the atomic age, Sir Rudolph Peierls; radiation, language and logic, L.Arnold; labour and the origins of the National Health Service, C.Webster; economists and engineers, A.Cairncross; public history in the United States - a retrospective appraisal, R.Hewlett; postscript, M.Howard. A list of the published work of Margaret Gowing.