by E.F. Gale, Sc.D., F.R.S., Director of the M.R.C. Unit for Chemical Microbiology, Cambridge

A series of six talks

Ribonucleic and deoxyribonucleic acids (RNA and DNA) are the agents responsible for the synthesis of proteins in living tissues. The speaker gives an account of the way in which these acids act and describes some ingenious experiments which led to this knowledge.
(To be repeated on February 26)
(Chromosomes and Heredity, by Professor C.D. Darlington, F.R.S: March 1)