D F. B. GUTHKIE. 



Mr. Mawson and Mr. Griffith Taylor on "the Geology of 

 Mittagong," which includes analyses of rocks from the 

 Mittagong district. 



Mr. Petrie has obtained a special Oaird Scholarship of 

 £100, which has enabled him to investigate the nature of 

 the products obtained by the distillation of New South Wales 

 shale. Mr. Laby is applying for a grant from the Royal 

 Society to enable him to test rigorously the experiments of 

 Landolt, indicating an alteration in weight during chemical 

 change. Mr. Mawson, who has just returned from a scien- 

 tific expedition to the New Hebrides with Oapt. Rason, r.n., 

 is engaged on an examination of the rocks which he has 

 there collected. 



Within the last few years a well-equipped metallurgical 

 and assaying laboratory has been erected, where students 

 in mining and metallurgy receive a complete course of 

 instruction in these subjects, including assaying and 

 technical analysis and bulk treament of ores. 



Professor Liversidge is assisted by Mr. J. A. Schofleld, 

 a. r.s.m., (now Acting Professor) Lecturer and Demonstrator 

 in Chemistry in charge of the Chemical Laboratories, and 

 Mr. A. Jarman, a. r.s.m., in charge of the Metallurgical 

 Laboratory. 



Technical Colleges. — At the Sydney Technical College 

 the teaching of chemistry has been recently placed under 

 the direction of Mr. W. J. Clunies Ross, b.sc, (Lond.) 

 Lecturer-in-Oharge of Chemistry and Metallurgy, recently 

 Resident Master-in-Charge of the Bathurst Technical 

 College. The chemistry teaching at the Technical College 

 includes two-year courses in theoretical and practical 

 chemistry for ordinary students, advanced students 

 doing quantitative analysis. There is in addition a two- 

 year course in metallurgy and assaying. Engineering 

 students receive a two-year course and attend lectures in 

 metallurgy during their third year. Similar classes are 



