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the University supplied tlie funds. The " Cavendish " 

 is now, for tlie second time, being added to by a 

 building which stretches along Free School Lane to 

 the north, the new building being about 80 feet in 

 length, and varying in width from 40 to 50 feet. 

 The front to Free School Lane is of Weldon stone, 

 with Ancaster dressings to the windows and where 

 mouldings occur. 



The new wing consists of three floors. The ground 

 floor is occupied bv a large class-room, two students' 

 rooms, and two dark rooms. The lecture room, 40 



feet by 



feet, on the first floor, adjoins the pre- 



paration room containing a dark room, and there 

 are also two other rooms, one for a library, the other 

 for a common room for the demonstrators. On the 

 second floor are nine students' rooms, a room for 

 chemistry, and another dark room. Two floors of 

 the new extension are thus devoted to research. There 

 is readv access from all these rooms to the main 

 laboratory. 



The cost of the building will be between 7000/. and 



tained a large company of guests at a reception. 

 There was an interesting e.xhibition of scientific ex- 

 periments and apparatus by students working" in the 

 laboratorv. 



LANDSLIP AT LYME REGIS. 

 A X extensive landslip occurred at Lyme Regis on 

 ■^*- June 10, and was the occasion of many more 

 or less inaccurate paragraphs in the daily papers. 

 The account which was published in the TFc's/fH! 

 Morning News of June 12 was, however, fairly full 

 and accurate, being based upon information given by 

 Mr. A. C. G. Cameron, late of the Geological Survey, 

 and now resident at Uplyme. From this and from 

 some additional particulars supplied by the same ob- 

 server, we are able to state what really occurred on 

 and previous to the date mentioned. 



It is needless to say that no volcano or any kind 

 of volcanic action is concerned in the phenomena. 

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Sooo?., and the L'niversity has only been enabled to 

 undertake this work by the munificence of the Chan- 

 cellor, Lord Rayleigh, who presented the whole of 

 the Nobel Prize to Cambridge. Of this prize 5000?. 

 is given towards the expense of the new laboratory, 

 and Prof. Thomson has undertaken to provide 2000/., 

 which has accumulated from laboratory fees. On 

 Tuesdav, June 16, thirty-eight years ago to the day, 

 the first building of the Cavendish Laboratory was 

 opened by the then Chancellor, and two days ago this 

 latest addition to one of the most renowned institutions 

 in the world was opened by a short ceremony by the 

 new Chancellor, Lord Rayleigh, whose arms appear 

 over the portal. It is appropriate that the first official 

 act of the new Chancellor should be to declare open 

 a building which his generosity alone has enabled 

 the L'niversity to erect. 



Owing to the room in which the Chancellor spoke 

 being of limited dimensions, the number of those 

 present at the actual ceremony was not large, but 

 after the ceremony Prof, and Mrs. Thomson enter- 



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the cliff east of the town, owing, doubtless, to the 

 decomposition of iron pyrites and the rapid oxidation 

 of the iron. As some of the shales contain lignite, 

 and others may be more or less bituminous, the con- 

 ditions are favourable to the continuance of combus- 

 tion, and the mound of smoking shale has been an 

 object of great local interest from January to the 

 present time. There is, however, no connection 

 between it and the recent landslip. 



The slip took place about 2 p.m. on June 10 below 

 the road which leads from Lyme to Charmouth. The 

 ground here consists of Greensand in the upper part, 

 and of Lias shales in the lower part, the latter form- 

 ing a succession of cliffs and terraces from a height 

 of about 300 feet down to the beach. There are three 

 tiers of cliffs, and it is the middle one for a distance 

 of about 500 vards (rather more than a quarter of a 

 mile) which is the scene of the slip. \ great slice 

 of this cliff suddenly gave way, and slid into the 

 sea with a loud rumbling noise, and the production 

 of semi-circular waves in the water. The slice inter- 



