Calendar: 1957-1958 Page 430

ANNUAL REPORT Departmental Notes start has been made to re-equipping the Applied Heat laboratory Obsolete internal-combustion and steam engines will be replaced and the new equipment will include 60-h gas turbine together with additional refrigeration equipment During the session substantial additions have been made to the equipment of the Mechanical Engineer- ing workshops relatively minor structural alteration has provided additional drawing-office accommodation for the Department of Chemical Engineer- ing which in consequence will be able to increase the number of Diploma students by seven The Department of Electrical Engineering has acquired an electronic analogue computer which will be employed on problems arising in research and advanced teaching Professor Kastner lectured on the Internal-combustion Engine before the Eastern Branch of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Lincoln Under the auspices of the British Council Professor Greig visited Austria at the beginning of the Easter Term and lectured in Graz and Leoben He also visited the Universities of Bologna and Padua and lectured in Bologna at the invitation of the Associazone Elettrotecnica Italiana Dr Η Rose presented papers at conferences in Essen and Paris Dr Plowman presented paper to the Reinforced Concrete Association in London and Birmingham As indicated in paragraph the Institution Medal and Premium of the Institution of Civil Engineers has been won by Mr Simmonds this is the third year in succession and the fifth out of total of nine in which King's Coעege student has won this prize There is an interesting instance amongst the Higher Degree results of co-operation between faculties and joint responsibility for postgraduate work graduate in the Faculty of Arts has received the award of the degree of Ph in that Faculty for research devoted to the analysis of certain types of engineering structure C-PUBLIC LECTURES Michaelmas term 1955 -Public Lectures delivered during this term were as follows Faculty of Arts The great Lisbon earthquake of lst November 1755 by Professor Boxer Portuguese Portraits-15th to 19th centuries by Senhor Carlos de Azevedo "Popular poetry in Venetian Crete by Mr Gareth Morgan Home town blues in the American novel by Professor Arthur Mizener of Cornell University The poetry of Angelos Sikelianos by Professor Trypanis