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ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



Glasgow International Exhibition. — It is announced 

 that the Prince and Princess of Wales will open the Exhibi- 

 tion on Tuesday, May 8th. 



Society of Arts' Examination in Vocal and Instru- 

 mental Music. — The next examination in London will be 

 held by Mr. W. A. Barrett, Mus. Doc, Oxon, at the House 

 of the Society of Arts, and will commmence on Thursday, the 

 24th May, 1888. Full particulars can be obtained on applica- 

 tion to the Secretary. 



Royal Agricultural Society of England. — In connec- 

 tion with the country meeting of the Society, which is to be 

 held at Nottingham next July, prizes are offered for hay and 

 straw presses worked by steam, horse and hand power 

 respectively, and for a press for old hay worked by hand 

 power. Intending competitors and exhibitors must make 

 their entries by the 31st inst. 



Paris International Exhibition. — It is said that separate 

 catalogues will be issued for each of the following groups of 

 exhibits ; — Works of art ; Education, and apparatus and 

 materials used in connection with the arts ; Furniture and 

 accessories ; Textiles, clothing and accessories ; Mining, and 

 industries connected with the production of raw materials ; 

 Engineering, manufactures, and applied electricity ; Food 

 products j Agriculture, viticulture, pisciculture, and horti- 

 culture. 



Delta Metal. — On page 53, vol. i., First Series, we 

 described this useful metal, and we are glad to know that the 

 demand for it has greatly increased, so much so, in fact, that 

 a Company has been formed to undertake the manufacture 

 and sale on a larger scale than hitherto. Sir Edward Reed, 

 the late Director of Naval Construction to the Admiralty, is 

 the Chairman ; and Mr. Charles Cammell, of the Cyclops 

 Works, Sheffield, Mr. Bond, Messrs. Vivian, Younger, and 

 Bond, Directors ; and Mr. Alexander Dick, Managing Director. 



British Association. — The Council of the British Asso- 

 ciation have nominated the following presidents of sections 

 for the Bath Meeting in September next, and we understand 

 they have accepted the offices respectively : — Prof. Schuster, 

 Section A, Mathematics and Physics ; Prof Tilden, Section 

 B, Chemistry ; Prof. W. Boyd-Pawkins, Section C, Geology ; 

 Mr. Thistelton-Dyer, Section D, Biology ; Col. Sir C. Wilson, 

 Section E, Geography ; Lord Bramwell, Section F, Economic 

 Science ; Mr. W. H. Preece, Section G, Mechanical Science ; 

 General Pitt-Rivers, Section H, Anthropology. 



University Extension Lectures at Bethnal Green. 

 — As an outcome of the lectures recently delivered by Pro- 

 fessor Seeley, the Committee announce that a class for the 

 study of geology has been formed. Arrangements have been 

 made for the delivery of the following lectures during next 

 month :— On April 5th, " The Metals which form the Earth's 

 Crust ; the Cooling and Crumpling of the Earth," by Mr. 

 Nicol Brown. April 12th, "Clouds and Rain; Rivers and 

 Seas," by Dr. Gerard Smith. And on April 19th, " The 

 Development of Underground Heat, Volcanoes and Earth- 

 quakes," by Mr. Nicol Brown. 



Profesorship of Botany at Oxford. — An election to the 

 Sherardian Professorship of Botany will be held in the course 

 of next term. The duty of the professor is to lecture and 

 give instruction in botany. He will also have charge and 

 supervision of the Botanical Garden and of the botanical col- 

 lection belonging to the University ; and it will be part of his 

 duty to make such gardens and collections accessible to, and 

 available for the instruction of students attending his lectures 

 Afellowshipin Magdalen College is now attached to the profes- 

 sorship. The stipend of the professor, inclusive of this, will be 

 ^700 per annum. Candidates are requested to send to the 

 Registrar of the University their application, and also any 

 documents which they may wish to submit to the electors, on 

 or before Tuesday, May 1st, 18S8. 



Oxford Local Examination.— The annual report for 

 1886-7 of the Committee of the Local Examinations Delegacy 

 for the establishment of lectures and teaching in the large 



towns of England and \yales has been issued, with a map 

 showing the towns where, such lectures have been arranged. 

 It appears that the number of such places has increased from 

 twenty-two in 18S6, to fifty-seven in 18S7, the courses of 

 lectures from twenty-seven, to sixty-seven, and that the num- 

 ber attending in the latter year has been 9,908. An endow- 

 ment fund has been commenced for lecturers to form a 

 permanent nucleus of the teaching staff. The report gives 

 much interesting information as to the correspondence lectures 

 for working men, travelling libraries, to vvhich Messrs. Cassell 

 and Co. and other publishers have made donations, and other 

 matters connected with the scheme. Further information can 

 be obtained through the secretary, Mr. E. Sadler, M.A., E.xami- 

 natlon Schools, Oxford. 



Society of Arts. — The following address has been 

 presented by the Society of Arts to H.R.H. the Prince of 

 Wales, the President of the Society, and has been accepted 

 by his Royal Highness ; — " To his Royal Highness the Prince 

 of Wales, K.G., etc., etc., etc. — May it please your Royal 

 Highness, — We, the Members of the Society for the En- 

 couragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, desire to 

 offer to your Royal Highness our sincere and heartfelt con- 

 gratulations on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 your Royal Highness's marriage. We gratefully remember 

 that at the completion of the current Session of the Society, 

 your Royal Highness will have been for twenty-four years 

 President of the Society of Arts, and we feel that this Society 

 owes very much of its prosperity during that time to your 

 Royal Highness's influence, and to the great interest your 

 Royal Highness has taken in its affairs. We earnestly 

 desire that for many years to come you and your Royal 

 Consort may be spared to retain the high position you 

 both hold in the respect and affections of the people of this 

 country ; and we trust that the period on which you are 

 now entering may be no less happy than the one you have 

 just completed." 



Parkes Museum. — The following course of lectures has 

 been arranged for persons desirous of obtaining a practical 

 knowledge of sanitary requirements and regulations. 

 April, loth. — (i) Introductory Lecture — General History, 

 Principles, and Methods of Hygiene. Mr. 

 A. Wynter Blyth, M.R.C.S. 

 13th. — (2) Ventilation, Measurement of Cubic Space, 

 etc. Sir Douglas Galton, K.C.B., F.R.S. 

 17th. — (3) Water Supply, Drinking Water, 1 Pollution of 

 Water. Dr. Louis Parkes, (Pub. Health 

 Cert. Lond.) 

 2nth. — (4) Drainage and Construction. Mr. E. C. 



Robins, F.S.A,, F.R.I.B.A. 

 24th. — (5) Sanitary Appliances. Prof W. H. Corfield, 



M.A., M.D. 

 27th. — (6) Scavenging, Disposal of Refuse and Sew- 

 age. Mr. H. Percy Boulnois, M. Inst. 

 C.E. 

 May 1st. — (7) Food (including Milk), Sale of Food and 

 Drugs Act. Mr. Charles E. Cassal, F.C.S., 

 F.I.C. 

 ,, 4th. — (8) Infectious Diseases and Methods of Disin- 

 fection. Mr. Shirley F. Murphy, 

 M.R.C.S. 

 „ 8th. — (9) General powers and duties of Inspectors of 

 Nuisances. Method of Inspection. Mr. 

 J. F. J. Sykes, B.Sc, (Pub. Health) 

 M.B. 

 ,, nth. — (10) Nature of Nuisances, including Nuisances 

 the abatement of which is difficult. 

 Mr. J. F. J. Sykes, B.Sc, (Pub. Health) 

 M.B. 

 ,, 15th. — (II) Sanitary Law — General Enactments, Public 

 Health Act, 1875, Model Bye-Laws. Dr. 

 Charles Kelly, F.R.C.P. 

 ,, iSth. — (12) MetropolitanActs, Bye-Laws of MetropoUtan 

 Board of Works. Mr. A. Wynter Blyth, 

 M.R.C.S. 

 The Lectures will be given on Tuesdays and Fridays at 

 8 p.m., in the Parkes Museum, 74a, Margaret Street, W., and 



