June 15, 1888.] 



SCIENTIFIC NE^A^S. 



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under the Public Libraries Acts as amended by this Act for 

 the additional purposes authorised by this section shall not 

 exceed the sum of one pe?i7ty in the powid, and where the 

 powers given by the Public Libraries Acts are exercised con- 

 currently with the powers given by this section shall not 

 exceed twopence in the pound. 



4. — (i) The managers of any technical school in the dis- 

 trict of a School Board or local authority may make an 

 arrangement with the Board or authority for transferring 

 their school to that Board or authority, and the Board or 

 authority may assent to any such arrangement. 



(2) The provisions of section twenty-three of the Element- 

 ary Education Act, 1S70, with respect to arrangements for the 

 transfers of schools, shall apply in the case of arrangements 

 for the transfers of schools in pursuance of this section. 



5. — Every minute of the Department of Science and Art 

 with respect to the condition on which grants may be made 

 for technical instruction shall be laid on the table of both 

 Houses of Parliament within three weeks after it is made, if 

 Parliament be then sitting, and if Parliament be not then 

 sitting, within three weeks after the then next session of 

 Parliament, and shall not come into operation until one month 

 after being so laid. 



6. — In this Act — 



The expression " technical instruction '' means instruction 

 in the principles of science and art applicable to industries 

 and in the application of special branches of science and art 

 to specific industries or employments. It does not include 

 teaching the practice of any trade or industry or employment, 

 but, subject as aforesaid, includes instruction in the branches 

 of science and art with respect to which grants are for the 

 time being made by the Department of Science and Art, and 

 any other form of instruction which may for the time being 

 be sanctioned by that Department by a minute laid before 

 Parliament and made on the representation of a School 

 Board or local authority that such a form of instruction is 

 required by the circumstances of its district. 



The expression " technical school " means a school or 

 department of a school which is giving technical instruction 

 to the satisfaction of the Department of Science and Art. 



The expression "manual instruction" means instruction 

 in the use of tools and modelling in clay, wood, or other 

 material. 



The expression " the Education Department " means the 

 Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council on 

 Education. 



The expression " local authority " means the Council, Com- 

 missioners, Board, or other persons or authority carrying 

 into execution, or empowered to carry into execution, the 

 Public Libraries Acts. 



The expression " Public Libraries Acts " means the Public 

 Libraries (England) Acts, 1855 to 1887, and the Public 

 Libraries (Ireland) Acts, 1S55 to 1884. 



7. — This Act may be cited as the Technical Instruction Act, 

 1888. 



SCHEDULE. 

 Standard. 



Readittg. — To read a passage from some standard author. 



Writing. — A short theme or letter on an easy subject, 

 spelling, handwriting, and composition to be considered. An 

 exercise in dictation may, at the discretion of the inspector, 

 be submitted for composition. 



Aiithmetic. — Fractions, vulgar and decimal, simple pro- 

 portion, and simple interest. 



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Improved Tins for Meat and Vegetables. — Serious 

 mischief has been occasioned by the action of the juices 

 of fruits, etc., upon the solder used in closing the tins, 

 especially when chloride of zinc is used in the process. 

 This substance is a powerful irritant poison, and very 

 easily dissolves in the juices of the food. To avoid this 

 danger tins have been devised with screw tops. We 

 fear, however, that the expense of this improvement will 

 interfere with its common adoption. 



ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



Royal Society. — At the meeting on Thursday, May 31st, 

 the following gentlemen were elected foreign members to fill 

 the four vacancies existing : — Prof. Edmond Becquerel, of 

 Paris ; Prof. Hermann Kopp, of Heidelberg ; Prof. E. F. W. 

 Pfliiger, of Bonn ; Prof. Julius Sachs, of Wiirzburg. 



The Institution of Civil Engineers. — The Council has 

 awarded the following premiums for some of the original 

 communications presented during the past session, on account 

 of the science, talent or industry displayed in the consideration 

 of the several subjects dealt with, viz. : — For Papers read 

 and discussed at the Ordinary Meetings — A Telford medal and 

 a Telford premium to Robert Abbott Hadfield, Assoc. M. Inst. 

 C.E., for his papers on " Manganese in its Application to 

 Metallurgy," and " Some Newly discovered Properties of Iron 

 and Manganese " ; A Watt medal and a Telford premium to 

 Peter William Willans, M. Inst. C.E., for his paper on 

 " Economy-Trials of a Non-condensing Steam-Engine, Simple, 

 Compound, and Triple " ; a Telford medal and a Telford 

 premium to Edward Hopkinson, M.A., D.Sc, Assoc. M. Inst. 

 C.E., for his paper on " Electrical Tramways : the Bessbrook 

 andNewry Tramway " ; a Watt medal and aTelford premium 

 to Edward Bayzand Ellington, M. Inst. C.E., for his com- 

 munication on "The Distribution of Hydraulic Power in 

 London " ; a Telford medal and a Telford premium to Josiah 

 Pierce, Jun., M.A., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., for his paper on 

 "The Economic Use of the Plane- Table in Topographical 

 Surveying"; a George Stephenson medal and aTelford 

 premium to Sir Bradford Leslie, K.C.I.E., M. Inst. C.E., 

 for his account of "The Erection of the ' jubilee' Bridge, 

 carrying the East Indian Railway across the River Hooghly at 

 Hooghly ; " and the Manby premium to the late Hamilton 

 Goodall, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., for his paper on " The Use 

 and Testing of Open-hearth Steel for Boiler- making." For 

 Papers printed in the Proceedings "without being discussed — A 

 Watt medal and Telford premium to Professor Victor Auguste 

 Ernest Dwelshauvers-Dery, for his paper on "A New Method 

 of Investigation applied to the Action of Steam-Engine 

 Governors " ; and Telford premiums to William Mann Thomp- 

 son, M.A., B.E., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., for his paper "on Im- 

 proved Systems of Chaining for Land and Engineering Sur- 

 veys, " to James William Wyatt, F.C.H., Assoc. M. Inst. 

 C.E., for his communication on " Sizing Paper with Rosin," 

 and Dugald Drummond, M. Inst. C.E., for his paper on " The 

 Heating of Carriages by Exhaust Steam on the Caledonian 

 Railway. '' For Papers read at the Supplemental Meetings of 

 Students — Miller prizes to David Sing Capper, M.A., Stud. 

 Inst. C.E., for his paper on " The Speed-Trials of the latest 

 addition to ' The Admiral ' Class of British War-Vessels, ' to 

 Lawrence Gibbs, Stud. Inst. C.E., for his account of " Pump- 

 ing-Machinery in the Fenland and by the Trentside, " to 

 Harold Medway Martin, Wh.Sc, Stud. Inst. C.E., for his 

 communication on " Arched Ribs and Voussoir Arches, '' to 

 John Henry Parkin, Stud. Inst. C.E., for his paper on " River- 

 Gauging at the Vyrnwy Reservoir," to Alfred Chatterton. 

 B.Sc, Stud. Inst. C.E., for his paper on "The Prevention and 

 Extinction of Fires," to John HoUiday, Stud. Inst. C.E., for 

 his paper on "Boiler Experiments and Fuel-Economy, " to 

 Arthur Wharton Metcalfe, Stud. Inst. C.E., for his paper on 

 " The Classification of Continuous Railway-Brakes, " and to 

 Robert Jarratt Money, Stud. Inst. C.E., for his account of 

 " Railway Engineering in British North America. " 



Society of Arts. — The conversazione of this Society is 

 fixed to take place at the South Kensington Museum (by 

 permission of the Lords of the Committee of Council on 

 Education), on Wednesday, June 20th. 



The Hospit.\ls Association. — A special meeting of the 

 Hospitals Association will be held at the Governor's Hall, 

 St. Thomas's Hospital, on Wednesday, June 20th, at 8 p.m., 

 for the adjourned discussion of a paper by W. Burdett- 

 Coutts, Esq., M.P., on " Contributions by Patients in relation 

 to the Financial Condition of London Hospitals." The chair 

 will be taken by the President, Dr. J. S. Bristowe, F.R.S. 

 Cards of admission can be obtained, on application, from 

 L. Broke Willoughby, Esq., Secretary, The Hospital* 

 Association, Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, W.C. 



