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belts, pipes, and also the arrangements not directly required 

 for experimental work, thus leaving the floor clear from 

 obstruction. Beneath the lower floor a tank of ten 

 thousand gallons capacity has been built. A wide range 

 of machinery has been installed. The department also 

 comprises a machine shop and a pattern shop. 



In the lecture rooms and laboratories of the department 

 of physics and electrical engineering the machinery is of 

 the latest type. Everything has been provided for giving 

 a complete training, theoretical and practical, to the 

 students. 



.As is to be expected in a city like Belfast, particular 

 attention has been paid to the equipment of the depart- 

 ment of textile manufactures, and the result has been 

 to make the new institute almost unique in this respect. 

 Particular emphasis has naturally been laid on the various 



facts and statistical data, and a historical retrospect of 

 technical instruction in Belfast, whilst the book is finely 

 illustrated with internal and external views of the institute. 

 The book is to be sold at i.?., or by post li. 3d. Copies, 

 can be obtained on application to the institute. 



LONDON DAY TRAINING COLLEGE FOR 

 TEACHERS. 



T N June, 1901, in response to urgent representations- 

 from the School Board for London and other 

 important bodies, the late Technical Education Board of 

 the London County Council secured the adoption of a 

 scheme under which the Council undertook to provide and 

 maintain a day training college for men and womeri 



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1 Institute, Belfast. 



flax products, and in this connection a very complete range 

 of machines has been installed. 



It is unnecessary to examine in detail the equipment of 

 the remaining departments. In every case the expenditure 

 has been equally generous, and the results equally satis- 

 factory. Special mention may be made of the art school, 

 which occupies the entire top storey, and now ranks as 

 one of the best schools in the kingdom. The chemical 

 laboratory is the largest room in the institute, and has 

 been furnished on a complete scale. 



Belf.-ist may well be proud of its new institute. Facili- 

 ties are now provided for the carrying on of the work of 

 technical education such as cannot fail in the immediate 

 future to have an important and beneficial influence on its 

 trade .and industries. 



In connection with the opening ceremony, a " Souvenir " 

 book has been issued. This contains a number of por- 

 traits, views of the institute, a chronological table, salient 



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teachers in close connection with the newly re-constructed 

 University of London, and a chair of education in the 

 University to be held by the principal of the college. 



Work was commenced in October, 1902, under the direc- 

 tion of Prof. John Adams, and has been continued in 

 various temporary premises until the present term, when 

 the college entered into possession of the southern half 

 of the fine block of buildings designed by the Council's 

 architect (Mr. \V. E. Riley) to fill a site recently cleared 

 at the Holborn end of Southampton Row. (The northern 

 half of this block will, when finished, be occupied by the 

 L.C.C. Central School of .Arts and Crafts.) _ The celebra- 

 tion of the entrance of the college into its permanent 

 home was the motive of an interesting ceremony con- 

 ducted by the chairman of the Council (Mr. Percy Harris) 

 on Saturday last, when Lord Rosebery, as Chancellor of 

 the University, formally declared the building open. 



The majority of the students of the college are " recog- 



