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materials and of the scientific principles involved in their application. Too 

 little opportunity is given in present-day engineering courses for independent 

 reading and thinking, and for humane studies. Industrial concerns must 

 do more than provide opportunities for practical training — they should 

 undertake, both independently and in co-operation with adjacent technical 

 colleges, the necessary instruction in the aforementioned subjects. Where- 

 ever possible this instruction ought to be given during works hours. Such 

 provision is possible only with large organisations, and on these rests the 

 responsibility for training men for the country as a whole. A brief descrip- 

 tion is given of an existing apprenticeship scheme of post-graduate training 

 which conforms in some measure to these requirements. 



It is very necessary that the engineering departments at the Universities 

 should undertake fundamental research work in co-operation with the 

 physics, chemistry and metallurgical departments on border-line subjects 

 of industrial importance. Scholarship provisions enabling men of out- 

 standing ability to return to the Universities for one or two years after some 

 experience of industrial work would stimulate this activity and react very 

 beneficially on industrial development. Industry might with advantage 

 afford facilities in its research laboratories for members of University 

 staffs to carry out, and where possible to supervise supplementary work 

 beyond the scope of the financial resources of the Universities. 



Afternoon. 



Lecture and demonstration by Mr. W. H. Haile on The engineering 

 problems of the River Trent Catchment Board (2.30). 



Visits to Bestwood Coal Mine, to Messrs. Boots' Works, Beeston, and 

 Messrs. Manlove Alliott's works. 



Saturday, September 4. 



Excursion to North Derbyshire (Staveley, Lady Bower Dam, Gliding 

 Competition). 



Monday, September 6. 



Dr. Oscar Faber, O.B.E. — Some aspects of heating and air conditioning 

 (lo.o). 



The author explains that air conditioning involves the increase or the 

 decrease of both temperature and humidity, and that filtration is in many 

 cases also necessary. He describes the conditions which are usually accepted 

 as necessary for comfort and he discusses the relative merits of alternative 

 systems adopted for each process. 



He makes special reference to the recent installations in the Bank of 

 England and in the Queens Hotel at Leeds. He refers also to the special 

 difficulties encoimtered in large cinemas and in buildings in the tropics. 



Mr. A. Swan. — Problems of the altitude record flight (ii.o). 



As the atmospheric density decreases with increase of height it follows 

 that, for a given true speed of flight, the greater the height, the smaller is 

 the resistance to the passage of an aeroplane. This makes flight at very 

 high altitudes attractive so far as high speed and economy of time and fuel 

 are concerned. 



