Special edition for this week's Australian Science Communicators' conference, 15-17 February, 2023.
The extract below appeared only 18 months after Volume 1 Issue 1 of NATURE was published on 4 November 1869. Of course, it speaks in the language of the day.
Seeing Charles Dickens listed as a lecture topic may surprise some of us, but perhaps not those who see scientists as a part of - not apart from - society.
