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[July 2 i, 1904 



venience of visitors, a small number only of the seats 

 will be allotted on Monday afternoon, and a consider- 

 able number of places in all parts of the building 

 will be held in reserve for those who arrive on Wed- 

 nesday, August 17. 



At 3 p.m. on Thursday, August i8, the High 

 Sheriff of Cambridgeshire will entertain the associa- 

 tion at a garden party in the grounds of Emmanuel 

 College, and at 5.30 p.m. the Registrary of the uni- 

 versity will deliver a lecture at the theatre on the 

 growth and origin of the university. At 9 p.m. 

 there will be a reception of the association by the 

 local committee in Trinity College. 



On Friday afternoon, August 19, the mistress and 

 resident staff of Girton College will entertain 500 

 members of the association at a garden party, and 

 in the evening Prof. George Darwin will deliver a 

 lecture in the theatre on ripple-marks and sand- 

 dunes. 



Saturday, August 20, will be devoted to excursions 

 to places of interest in East Anglia. The local com- 

 mittee hopes that prominent members of the associa- 

 tion will, so far as possible, take part in the excur- 

 sions, which promise to be of considerable interest. 

 A set of excursion guides and a map, which has been 

 specially prepared by • the Director-General of the 

 Ordnance Survey, will be given to each member of 

 the association. 



The following is a list of the excursions : — 



Audley End and Saffron Walden. — Audley End 

 House will be visited by permission of the Lord 

 Howard de Walden ; the church and museum in 

 Saffron Walden form other items in the programme. 



Brandon and Didlington Hall. — The most attrac- 

 tive features of this excursion will be the flint knapping 

 industry at Brandon, Lord Amherst's Egyptian col- 

 lections, rare books and illuminated MSS. at Didlington 

 Hall. 



Cromer. — Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., has arranged 

 an attractive itinerary for those interested in the 

 geology of the Norfolk coast. 



Dykes of Cambridge. — This excursion includes an 

 inspection of the well-known Fleam Dyke and Devil's 

 Ditch, under the guidance of Prof. Ridgeway; oppor- 

 tunity will also be afforded for botanising on the 

 dykes. By the invitation of Mr. Richard Marsh, 

 trainer to H.M. the King, tea will be provided at 

 Egerton House, Newmarket. 



Ely. — A visit to the cathedral, a building of excep- 

 tional architectural interest, under the guidance of 

 the Dean, forms the most important feature of this 

 excursion. 



Wicken Fen and Upware. — Members will travel 

 from Cambridge to L^pware in steam launches. This 

 excursion is likely to be of considerable interest tc 

 geologists, entomologists, and botanists. 



Hatfield and .Sf. .Albans.— .\ visit to Hatfield House, 

 by permission of the Marquis of Salisbury, visits to 

 St. Albans Abbey, the site of Verulam, the sites o' 

 the battlefields of St. Albans, and the orchid houses 

 of Messrs. Sanders, form the chief attractions. 



Lincoln. — The exceptional architectural and archse- 

 ological features of Lincoln seemed to the committee 

 sufficient justification for arranging an excursion to 

 this city, in spite of its distance from Cambridge. The 

 Mayor of Lincoln invites members to tea in the Castle 

 grounds. 



Norwich. — The cathedral, the hospital of St. Giles, 

 and St. Andrew's Hall are the most important build- 

 ings to be visited. Hospitality is offered by the Mavor 

 of Norwich, and by Mr. and Mrs. James Stuart. 



Sandringham, Lynn, and Castle Rising. — This ex- 

 cursion, which is likely to prove one of the most 



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popular, includes visits to the Lynn churches, the 

 castle and church at Castle Rising, also the grounds, 

 kennels, stables, and dairy at Sandringham. Tea will 

 be provided by invitation of H.M. the King. 



VVisbcch. — The Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire 

 has kindly invited members of the association to visit 

 the old-world town of Wisbech, and facilities will 

 also be afforded for inspecting the woad works. 



The committee is greatly indebted to the author> 

 the excursion guides for the full and interesting 

 accounts which they have written of the places to be 

 visited. 



On Saturday the master and fellows of Peterhouse 

 invite 600 members of the association to an evening 

 party at q p.m. 



On Sunday evening at 8.30 p.m., there will be a 

 performance of unaccompanied sacred music by the 

 combined choirs of King's, Trinity, and St. John's 

 Colleges in the Chapel of King's College. 



On Monday, August 22, the Lord Lieutenant of 

 Cambridgeshire and the Mayor will entertain the 

 association at a garden party in the Botanic Garden 

 at 4 p.m. On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Sidgwick, 

 principal of Newnham College, invites 500 members to 

 a garden party in the college grounds. The large 

 room of the Cavendish Laboratory has been placed 

 at the disposal of the committee for the exhibition of 

 specimens. For information as to exhibits, application 

 should be made to Mr. P. V. Bevan, the Cavendish 

 Laboratory. 



Arrangements have been made for members to have 

 exceptional facilities for visiting the Botanic Garden, 

 University Laboratory, the Observatory, the Uni- 

 versity Press, as well as college buildings and gardens. 

 Cambridge schools and the Addenbrooke's Hospital 

 may also be inspected at stated times, and visits have 

 been arranged to several works in Cambridge, and to 

 nursery gardens at Sawbridgeworth and Broxbourne. 



In a subsequent article some account will be given 

 of the sectional proceedings, together with a list of 

 some of the colonial and foreign guests. 



MODERN PRINTING PRESSES. 

 "in HE recent issue of M. A. Ducrot's " Presses 

 ■*■ modernes typographiques," published by the 

 house of Gauthier-Villars, Paris (7 f. 50 c), provides 

 an opportunity for a short account of modern printing 

 presses. The work is copiously illustrated, and de- 

 scribes, from a mechanical point of view, every kind 

 of machine, from the small but handy platen to the 

 awe-inspiring rotary, whilst the intermediate classes 

 of cylinder machines are represented by many varieties, 

 both of the single and double kind. 



The only English work of a similar nature, devoted 

 exclusively to machinery, is Wilson and Grey's 

 " Modern Printing Machinery," published so far back 

 as 18S8, and therefore not up to date. This is to be 

 deplored considering the great advance made in that 

 department of the printing craft. 



Although artistic printing was not altogether an 

 unknown quantity during the nineteenth century, 

 much progress was made in a general way during the 

 latter part of that century, which also marked the intro- 

 duction of machinery, but its general adoption was a 

 matter of time. Through William Morris's work at 

 the Kelmscott Press, much impetus was given to what 

 mav be termed the decorative side of printing, but the 

 invention of the many processes of reproduction in 

 connection with letterpress illustration, and the 

 enormous development of such processes, have necessi- 

 tated printing machinery of a different and much im- 

 proved character in order to cope successfully with the 

 demand for graphic literature. 



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