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XXX ANNUAL REPORT has been appointed Honorary Treasurer as well as Chairman of the Radio Society of Great Britain An important addition to the Laboratory Apparatus is set com- prising two three-phase motors of the slip-ring type mounted upon combination bed-plate supplied by the English Electric Company stroboscope supplied by Messrs Crompton is in use in the Laboratory Messrs Reyrolle Co have presented type 300 Volt Switch fitted with potential transformer core balance protection and flame- proof relay This is valuable addition to the teaching equipment Mr Highfleld an old student of the College has presented canvas Fish designed for carrying hydrophone and high-frequency Syren These are his own inventions and are of great interest REPORT ON PUBLIC LECTURES Michaelmas Term 1923 -The principal course of lectures arranged by the College during this term was that delivered in the Faculty of Science on The Biological Foundations of Society by Professor Dendy Sc The lectures have since been printed under the same title by Messrs Constable Co In the Department of History and Italian seven lectures were delivered by Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Florence on The Foreign Policy of Italy from 1871 to 1914 In the same department three lectures upon Some Popular Misreadings of Mediaeval History were delivered by Mr Jacob In the School of Slavonic Studies Sir Bernard Pares gave course of nine lectures on Russia before Peter the Great Professor Seton-Watson gave course of ten lectures on Austria-Hungary 1526- 1867 Prince Svyatopolk Mirsky gave course of nine lectures on The History of Russian Literature and Baron Meyendorff gave two lectures on Legislative Procedure in Russia before 1905 and The Russian Constitution of 1905 Dr Otakar Vocadlo gave course of three lectures on The Intellectual Reconstruction of the Czecho-slovak Nation and Dr Frantisek Pavlasek gave lecture on Czecho-slovak Financial Policy In the Department of Spanish Studies Mr Robert Aitken delivered course of five lectures on The Geography of Spain and Typical Spanish Institutions In the Department of Portuguese Professor Edgar Prestage delivered an Inaugural Lecture on Portugal Brazil and Great Britain '' Professor Prestage also delivered three lectures on behalf of Professor Fidelino de Figueiredo on Cam&es as Lyric Poet Camoes as an Epic Poet and Modern Ideas concerning the Discoveries and Conquests of the Portuguese In the Department of Modern Greek Professor Arnold Toynbee delivered course of ten lectures on Outlines of Byzantine Near Eastern and Modern Greek History 378-1841 In the Department of Theology course of five lectures was given