NATURE 



[December 19, 1918 



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NOTICE. 



In consequence of the Christmas 

 Holidays NATURE for next week 

 will be published on TUESDAY, 

 Dec. 24. 



The office will be closed from 

 Tue-day night. Dec. 24, until the 

 morning of Monday, Dec. 30. 



ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON, W.C.2. 



t)ltlttn§ITY OF LONDON, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. 



FACULTY OF ENGINEERING. 



Arrangements have now been completed : — 

 (i) To enable students, whose courses have been interrupted by war 

 service, to resume them as nearly as possible at the point at which 

 they left off, by rejoining at the beginning of the second term, 

 January 13, 1919. 

 (2) To enable students, who were unable to begin their Engineering 

 Studies last October owing to war conditions, to begin them by 

 entering next term, January 13, 1919. 

 For both classes of stud- nts additional work will be provided during part* 

 of the Easter and Lone Vacations, so as to enable them to get in a full 

 Session's work between January and August, 1919. 

 OTHER FACULTIES. 

 Arrangements of a like kind are in contemplation in the other Faculties, 

 and will be made if a sufficient number of entries are received on or before 

 January 6, 1919. 



Students in either of these categories in any Faculty should apply at once 

 to the Provost, University College, London (Gower Street, W.C. 1). 



UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL,. 

 DEMOBILISATION. 



SPECIAL REGULATIONS have been made to allow intending students 

 who have served in the war or in the scientific service of the war to be ad- 

 mitted to matriculation by vote of Senate on their ed"cational qualifications, 

 without formal examination ; and also lo allow of such students entering the 

 University in January if candidates in Arts ; in January, or between January 

 and May, if candidates in Science, Medicine, Dental Surgery, or Engineer- 

 ing ;and if grounds be shown, counting their first year's attendance as though 

 it had commenced in October. Engineering students in special cases may be 



all 



1 hole 



The Special Army Educ 

 Applications lotbeRE 



1 Certificate qualifies for Ma 



ul.ni, 



THE SIR JOHN CASS TECHNICAL 

 INSTITUTE, 



JEWRY STREET, ALDGATE, E.C. 3. 

 The following Special Courses of Instruction will be given 

 during the Lent and Summer Terms, 1919 : — 



FUEL ANALYSIS. 



By J. S. S. BRAME. 

 A Course of to Lectures, with associated Laboratory work, Tuesday 



evenings, 7 to 10 p.m., commencing TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1919. 



TECHNICAL GAS ANALYSIS. 



By CHARLES A. KEANE, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.I.C. 

 A Course of Laboratory work. Wednesday evenings, 7 to 10 p.m., com- 

 mencing WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1919. 



A detailed Syllabus of the Courses may be had upon appli- 

 cation at the Office of the In stitute or by letter to the Principal. 



KENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE. 



ERITH TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. 



Principal— Wm. Neagle, B.Sc, A.M.I.M.E. 



REQUIRED, full-lime ASSISTANT to teach ELECTRICAL 



ENGINEERING and MEI II Wli -. 



Ininal salary up to Z250, according to qualifications, and ihence by scale 

 now under the consideration of the County Committee. 



Service counts towards pension under tlie Teachers' Pension Act. 

 Further information and application forms from A. T. Flux, Esq., 

 Education Office, Picardy, Helvederi-, Kent. 



E. SALTER DAVIES, 

 December, 1918. Director of Education. 



ROYAL INSTITUTION OF 

 GREAT BRITAIN, 



ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLY, W.I. 

 LECTURE ARRANGEMENTS BEFORE EASTER, 1919. 



CHRISTMAS COURSE (adapted to a Juvenile Auditory). 

 (Illustrated.) 



Professor D'Akcy W. Thompson, C.B., F R.S.— Course of Six Lectures 

 on "The Fish op the Sea." (1) " Jelly-Fishes, " (2) " Star- 

 Fishes," (1) "Cray-Fishes," (4) 'Cuttle-Fishes," (5) "The Herring 

 Fishery," (6) "The Whale Fishery." On Dec. 31 (Tuesday). Ian. 1, 

 1919 (Thursday), Jan. 4 (Saturday), Jan. 7 (Tuesday), Jan. q (Thursday), 

 Jan. 1 1 (Saturday), at T hree o'clock. 



TUESDA YS. 



Professor Spenser Wilkinson. — Three Lectures on " Lessons of the 

 Great War." On Tuesdays, Jan. 14, 21, 28, at Three o'clock. 



Professor J. T. MacGregor-Morris. M.l E.E.— Two Lectures on 

 "The Study of Electric Arcs and their Applications." (in 

 Tuesdays, Feb. 4, 11, at Three o'clock. 



Captain G. P. Thomson. — Two Lectures on ( 1) " The Development 

 of Aeroplanes in the Great War," (2) "The Dynamics of Fly- 

 ing." I >n Tuesdays, Feb. i3, 25, at Three o'clock. 



Professor Hele-Shaw, F.R.S.— Two Lectures on "Clui 



Tuesdays, March 4, 1 1, at Three o'clock. 



Professor Arthur Keith, M.D., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Physi- 

 ology. — Four Lectures on " B itish ETHNOLOGY, the People of 

 Scotland." On Tuesdays, Maich 18, 25. April 1, 8, at Three o'clock. 



THURSDAYS. 

 Professor J. Norman Collie, F.R.S. — Three Lectures on "Chemical 

 Oriental Porcblain." On Thursdays, Jan. 16, 23, 30, 



t Thr 



clock. 



I WlLSO 



Move- 



M.B., F.R.A.S.— Two Lectu 

 ments ok the Sun, Earth, and Moon" (illustrated by a 

 Astronomical Model), on Thursdays, Feb. 6, 13, at Three o'clock. 



Professor H. Maxwell Lefroy. — Two Lectures on (r) " Insfct 

 Enemies of cur Food Supply," (2) " How Silk is Grown and 

 Made." On Thursdays, Feb. 20, 27, at Three o'clock. 



Charles Aitken, Director of the N tional Gallery of British Art.— 

 Two Lectures on (1) " Rossetti," (2) "Whistler and Sargent." On 

 Thursdays, March 6, 13, at Tnree o'clock. 



Professor Charles H Lees, F.R.S.— Two Lectures on " Fire Cracks 

 and the Forces Producing them." On Thursdays, March 20, 



Three o'clock. 

 Professor ALEX/ 



Math, 



D.Sc— Tw 



Lectu 



i on "Co 



its Properties." On Thursdays, April 3, 10, at Thre 



SA TURDA YS. 



Rev. Canon J. O. Hannay. — Two Lectures on "The Irish Literary 

 Renaissance." On Saturdays, Jan. 18, 25, at Three o'clock. 



Professor Hugh Percy Allen, Director of the Royal Academy of 

 Music— Three Lectures on "The Works of J. S. Bach " (with musical 

 illustrations by members of the Bach Choir). On Saturdays, Feb. 1, 8, 15, 

 at I hree o'clock. 



The Hon. John William Fortescue, C.V.O —Two Lectures on " The 

 Empire's Share in England's Wars." On Saturdays, Feb. 22, 

 March l, at Three o'clock. 



Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M.. Pres. R.S., Master of Trinity, 

 Piofessor of Natural Philosophy, Royal Institution.— Six Lectures on 

 "Spectrum Analysis and its Application to Atomic Structure." 

 On Saturdays, March 8, 15, 22, 29, April 5, 12, at Three o'clock. 



Subscription (to Non-Members) to all Courses of Lectures, Two Guineas. 

 Subscription to a Single Course of Lectures, One Guinea, or Half-a-Guinea. 

 Tickets issued daily at the Institution, or sent by post on receipt of Cheque 

 or Post-Office Order. 



The Friday Evening Meetings will begin on January 17, at s.30 p.m., 

 when Professor Sir James Dewai; will give a Discourse on "LIQUID Air 

 and the War." Succeeding Discourses will probably be given by Lieut. - 

 Col. Andrew Balfour, Professor H. H. TURNER, Professor J. G. AllAMI, 

 Professor Cargill G. Knott, Mr. A. T. Hare, Professor J. A. 

 McClelland, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, Professor Arthur 

 Keith, Professor W. W. Watts, The Rl. Hon. Sir John H. A. 

 MACUONALD, Professor Sir J. J. THOMSON, and other Gentlemen. To 

 these Meetings Members and their Friends only are admitted. 



Members are entitled to attend all Lectures delivered in the Institution, 

 the Libraries, and the Friday Evening Meetings, and their families are 

 admitted to the Lectures at a reduced charge. Payment : first year Ten 

 Guineas, afterwards Five Guineas a year ; or a composition of Sixty 



Perso 



of becoming Membe 



equested to apply to the 



COUNTY BOYS' SCHOOL, 

 MAIDENHEAD. 



ADVANCED SCIENCE COURSE. 



WANTED, on January 13, a highly qualified SCIENCE MASTER, 



chief subject Chemistry. Salary X300 a year. I he school (190 boys) is a 



day school under the Berkshire County Council, within easy reach of 



London. 



Apply, with testimonials, to 



A. E. BROOKS. M.A. Oxon., Headmaster. 



