314 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 



lead. Use and future. Possibilities, etc. of rarer metals, e.g. beryllium, 

 vanadium. Processes such as soldering, galvanising, welding, etc. 



Medicine. — Discovering the chemistry of the body. Various drugs and 

 how they work. Anaesthetics — general and local. Antiseptics. Toilet 

 goods and cosmetics. 



Chemistry and Police Work. — Poisons and their detection. Adulteration. 

 Chemistry in identification of things, people, places, etc. Inks, secret 

 inks, erasures. Antique-faking and detection. 



Chejuistry in Warfare. — Explosives, propellant and disruptive. Poison 

 gas and gas-masks. Verey lights, etc. Incendiary bombs. 



Our Wasting Assets. — The mineral stocks of the world — coal, oil, metal 

 ores, phosphates. Synthetic substitutes to replace exhausted natural 

 stocks. 



Conclusion. — Good and bad effects of chemical development. Scientific 

 method and mode of thought. Examples from chemistry and possible 

 applications to citizenship, economic life, e.g. water, sewages, etc. 



(This list of subjects is a comprehensive one from which a selection can 

 be made suitable to the needs of the class-students and the industrial 

 organisation of the district in which they live.) 



J. WicKHAM Murray. 

 Dr. J. Seeley. 



Mathematics. 

 One Year Extension Courses. 



(i) Exact Sciences and their relation to logic and philosophy, 

 (ii) The Universe and its relation to human destiny, 

 (iii) History of Mathematics and relation to the origin, growth and 

 diffusion of mathematical ideas to social, political and intellectual 

 conditions, 

 (iv) Pioneers of Astronomy : Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, 



Newton, W. Herschel, Einstein, 

 (v) Mathematical Theory of Harmony, and its relation to music, etc. 

 (vi) Aeronautics : Airship and Aeroplane, and their influence on trans- 

 port, international relations and geography, as e.g. affected by 

 Soviet work in Arctic, 

 (vii) Mathematics and Mechanics of Games and Recreations. 

 (viii) Geometry and Physics : modern relativistic ideas. 



Three Year Tutorial Courses. 



(i) Statistics, with application to social problems (wages, population, 



unemployment, world trade, etc.) 

 (ii) Number : development of number concept and its relation to the 

 expansion of human ideas in social life and in the natural sciences. 



(iii) Mechanics : principles of statics, dynamics, hydrostatics and hy- 

 draulics, in application to simple mechanisms, elementary astronomy, 

 aeronautics, etc. 



Books. 



See List of Books suitable for School Libraries, compiled by the Mathematical 

 Association (Bell), 1936. is. 

 and add 



Mathematics for the Million, by L. Hogben (Allen and Unwin), 1937. 12s. 6d. 

 (A cheap edition is expected shortly). 



Men of Mathematics, by E. T. Bell (Gollancz), 1937. 12s. 6d. 



Profs. E. T. PiAGGio and H. Brodetsky. 



