PERSONAL. 
Personal. 
In view of the death of Dr. Gellatly, and pending the passage of 
the Bill for the permanent establishment of the Institute of Science 
and Industry, the Minister for.T'rade and Customs (the Hon. W. Massy 
Greene, M.P.) has appointed Professor D. Orme Masson, C.B.E., 
F.R.S., Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Council, 
and Mr. Gerald Lightfoot, M.A.;>Chief- Executive Officer of the Insti- 
tute. Mr. E. N. Robinson will act as Secretary. 5 
_ Mr. F..W. Reid, B.Se., secretary of the South Australian Com- 
mittee of the Advisory Council of Science and Industry, and Principal of 
the Adelaide School of Mines, together with Dr. Fenner, Superin- 
tendent of Technical Education of South Australia, and Mr. IL. 
Laybourne Smith, B.E., F.S.A.L.A.,:recently visited Victoria to make 
inquiries into the general arrangement and equipment of technical 
schools in this State. In consequence of a gift of £5,000 by Sir 
Langdon Bonython, President of the South, Australian School of 
Mines, the South Australian Government has. ‘agreed: to supplement 
that- amount to baild-and equip a Technical High School for Adelaide. 
Dr. Fenner, and Messrs. Reid and Laybourne Smith have been 
appointed a committee to advise upon the plans, curriculum, equip- 
ment, .&e. 5 HORA ae Cis aR 
At-the recent Conference of Architects, held in Sydney, Mr. L. 
Laybourne Smith was elected President of the Federal Institute of 
Architects. For many years he was Principal of the South Austra- 
lian School of Mines. He is Secretary of the Institute of Architects 
of South Australia, and is practising ‘his profession in that State. 
‘ 
Dr. J. L. Glasson, who has done excellent work in relation: to the 
application of hydro-electric power ‘to industries, has resigned his posi- 
tion as lecturer in physics in the University of Tasmania. He in- 
tends to go to England and Europe to study some of the latest develop- 
ments of science. : ; 
Mr. R. Lockhart Jack, Assistant Government Geologist, South 
Australia, has published a bulletin dealing in a comprehensive manner 
with the phosphate deposits of South Australia. Mr. Jack says that 
South Australia is fortunate in having. supplies of phosphate . rock 
seattered over a wide area, which, although not equal to the imported 
material, canbe made available to supply part of the demand in 
Australia.. The total output of phosphate rock in South Anstralia to 
the end of 1918 was 89,000 tons, valued at £96,000.» , 
ye Mr. D, Avery, ofMessrs. Avery and Anderson, consulting chemists, 
Melbourne, has been appointed a member of the Institute’s Standing 
Committee on Chemicals. : 
Mr. E. G. Scriven, Under-Secretary, Department of Agriculture 
and Stock, Brisbane, has been on a visit to Melbourne, and was present 
at a special meeting. of; the Executive Committee of the Institute to 
discuss the; question of cotton. cultivation, in Australia. 
