A comment by W. T. Williams
Professor of Botany
University of Southampton
Compared with physics and chemistry, natural history is a backward science. In recent broadcasts two entomologists, Dr. John Kennedy and Dr. James Beament , gave their reasons for this. Professor Williams disagrees with them.

by SHELAGH DELANEY performed by The Company of the Library Theatre, Manchester
Production by DAVID SCASE Presented for radio by Alfred Bradley

Ionisation (1931) for percussion ensemble
Octandre (1924) for wind instruments
Integrates (1926) . for wind and percussion ensemble
Juilliard Percussion Orchestra New York Wind Ensemble
Conducted by Frederic Waldman on a gramophone record
The works of this Franco-American composer, who was born in 1885, are few in number and little known to the general public. His exploitation ot wind instruments (which owes something to Stravinsky) and of large percussion groups led him to a musical expression which, in many ways, anticipated the style of post-war serial and electronic composers.