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Ox Monday, October 2, her Majesty the Queen 
opened the extension_of the science, laboratories of. the 
London. Royal. Free Hospital School of Medicine for 
Women. The ceremony took place in the anatomical 
department, where more than 600 guests were accom- 
modated. The Queen was addressed by the dean of the 
school, Miss Aldrich Blake, M.D., who gave a brief 
account of the school, comparing its position in 1874, 
when it was founded by Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake, with 
a total of fourteen students, and its present condi- 
tion, with splendidly equipped laboratories and more 
than 400 students; by Dr. Winifred Cullis. (lecturer in 
physiology), who thanked the Queen for the interest 
she had shown in. the work and education of medical 
women, and all those who by their help had made it 
possible to carry out this much-needed extension; and 
“by the chairman of the council, who, having handed 
to the Queen a key presented by the architects, asked 
her to open the extension. After the Queen had de- 
clared it open, her Majesty made a tour of the new 
laboratories. The extension which has now been car- 
ried out was planned and arranged for before the war, 
owing to the steadily increasing annual entry of 
students. When war broke out it was for a time uncer- 
tain whether the extension should be proceeded with, 
but the number of students entering the school in 
Ig14 Was so great that there.was no alternative. Con- 
sequently an appeal for 30,0001, was issued, the appeal 
was generously responded to, and within seventeen 
months the whole sum was obtained. On the top 
floor the whole extension is given to the anatomical 
department, which now has one of the finest dissecting 
rooms in the country (an. excellently lighted room, 
140 ft. in length), private rooms, demonstration room, 
preparation rooms, and mortuary. The next floor 
is given to the physiological department, and the exten- 
sion provides an advanced laboratory, demonstration 
theatre, dark-room, storeroom, and private and re- 
search rooms. In the floor below is an extension of 
the chemical department, adding to it an organic labo- 
ratory, balance room, and private and research rooms; 
on this floor is found also a students’ union room. 
Below this is the extension of the physics laboratory, 
including lecture room, dark-rooms, and research room, 
and also some laboratories for pathological research. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
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Jordan in the chair.—A. Lacroix: The  riebeckite 
syenites of Alter Pedroso (Portugal), their mesocrate 
forms (lusitanites), and their transformation into 
leptynites and into gneiss.—E. Picard: Certain sub- 
groups of the hyperfuchsian groups, corresponding 
with certain ternary quadratic forms.—E. Esclangon : 
Doppler’s principle and the whistling of projectiles.— 
H. Bordier ; The action of the X-rays upon iodine and 
iodide of starch in aqueous solution. The solutions 
are decolorised, a few minutes’ exposure to the X-rays 
giving the same effect as several hours’ exposure to 
ultra-violet light.—M. Mauger: The minettes of Jersey. 
_—Ph, Flajolet: The perturbations of the magnetic 
declination at Lyons (Saint-Genis-Laval) during the 
first quarter of 1916. 
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