The last talk in this series will be given by, one of the most important public men of the day. Sir Herbert Samuel, who will discuss the future of British industry, was one of the ablest members of the Liberal Cabinets before and during the War, and he is also a distinguished economist who has been President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1918 to 1920; he was Home Secretary in 1916, and on his retirement from the High Commissionership of Palestine he was appointed to the onerous office of Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry, in 1925.