| Description | Letter written from Normanton House, Lake, near Salisbury dated 16 February. Lodge praises Jacks' talk last night. He discusses his concerns about the relationship between scientific research and the development of weapons such as explosives and poison gas. He comments: 'Science is truly international, and that is its great hope [...] A catastrophe to mankind is a calamity however it be brought about, and is not mitigated by the circumstance that the injured are only foreigners'. |