Calendar: 1927-1928 Page 440

ANNUAL REPORT xxxvi recently issued in which acknowledgment of the help received in the Department is made The following additions have been made to the equipment of the Department mercury-arc rectifier pulsometer Fleuss vacuum pump presented by the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company precision lathe variable resistance frame and circuit breakers for the automatic reversible booster Messrs Johnson and Phillips presented collection of cable sections suitably mounted in case for demonstration purposes The Professor delivered lecture at the Working Men's College on The Development of Electrical Power in Great Britain illustrated by cinematograph He continued his work during the year for the British Engineering Standards Association Mr Ian Campbell was awarded an Industrial Bursary by the Committee of the 1851 Exhibition At the British Association meeting held this year the selected students and Exhibitioners from British Universities were required to elect Secretary and Committee to draw up Report giving suggestions and opinions from the students present at the meeting Mr Barnes was appointed to the Secretaryship and with the assistance of his Committee drew up Report which was adopted unanimously The Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers offered Salomons Scholarship of the value of £50 to Second Year student in Electrical Engineering and the scholarship was awarded to Mr Lanyon Mr Robertson contributed to the discussion of Paper on The Testing of Static Transformers read before the Institution of Electrical Engineers Mr Shawcross very kindly assisted during Mr Η Clarke's illness The Staff of the Department wish to acknowledge his help and to tender him their sincere thanks One of the outstanding features of the Session was the effect of the strike upon College work Students responded most loyally to the call for help and rendered valuable services which were acknowledged subsequently in high terms by those under whom they worked Their names are recorded in The King's Engineer PUBLIC LECTURES Michaelmas Term 1925 -Dr Edward Benes Foreign Minister of the Czecho-Slovak Republic who came to London as signatory for his country to the Treaty of Locarno lectured at King's College on Wednesday 2nd December 1925 on The Role of Small Nations in Europe since the War at the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the School of Slavonic Studies The Earl of Oxford and Asquith presided The Creighton Lecture was delivered at the College by Professor Graham Wallas on the subject of Bentham as Political Inventor Two principal courses of lectures were arranged by the College during the Term The first consisted of three lectures in the Department of German delivered by Herr Rudolf Binding on Deutsche Dichtung der Gegenwart The second course consisting of three lectures in