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Visit to the Royal School of Mines building of the imperial college of science and technology
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VISIT TO THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES BUILDING OF THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. JANUARY 29TH, 1916. REPORT BY PROF. W. W. WATTS, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. A PARTY of about forty assembled outside the new building of the Royal School of Mines at 2.30. A short description of the Geological Department, accompanied by plans, was given to each member, and the party proceeded to pass through the whole department, beginning with the Murchison Museum and its collections of rocks, minerals, and fossils, the general arrangements of which were explained by the Director. It was especially pointed out that nothing more than teaching collections were aimed at, but that this term was capable of wide interpretation. The two large elementary laboratories were next visited, one with capacity for 70 students devoted to the needs of the Royal School of Mines students (the De la Beche laboratory), the other capable of containing 40 students from the Royal College of Science and the City and Guilds College (the Judd laboratory). Each of these is quite self-contained and is fully furnished with collections, apparatus, and material for the elaborate practical course in Part 1 Geology as originally designed by Professor Judd and somewhat modified by his successor. Both these laboratories have ready access to the Ramsay Drawing Office liberally furnished by the generosity of the Geological Surveys of Britain and the Colonies, India and the United States, with maps, sections, and memoirs. The chemical laboratory, oil-technology laboratory, and library were next visited, and then the visitors passed to the advanced laboratories devoted to petrology, palreontology, and economic geology, some of which are at present only partially equipped in consequence of war stringency. Finally the corridor museum and the lecture rooms, one large and the other for small classes, were shown and the various appliances therein displayed. On leaving the Geological Department a visit was paid to the departments of mining and metallurgy, time only allowing pause in the Bessemer Laboratory of the former, which was shown by Mr. A. Davies in accordance with arrangements kindly permitted by Professor Frecheville. The stamps, milling and ore-dressing plant were explained by Mr. A. Davies, who had kindly devoted the afternoon to the purpose, and he also showed the visitors a Wilfley table and a magnetic separator at work. A vote of thanks was awarded to Mr. Davies, and the party then proceeded to the College Union, where tea was served.
VISIT TO THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES BUILDING OF THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. JANUARY 29TH, 1916. REPORT BY PROF. W. W. WATTS, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. A PARTY of about forty assembled outside the new building of the Royal School of Mines at 2.30. A short description of the Geological Department, accompanied by plans, was given to each member, and the party proceeded to pass through the whole department, beginning with the Murchison Museum and its collections of rocks, minerals, and fossils, the general arrangements of which were explained by the Director. It was especially pointed out that nothing more than teaching collections were aimed at, but that this term was capable of wide interpretation. The two large elementary laboratories were next visited, one with capacity for 70 students devoted to the needs of the Royal School of Mines students (the De la Beche laboratory), the other capable of containing 40 students from the Royal College of Science and the City and Guilds College (the Judd laboratory). Each of these is quite self-contained and is fully furnished with collections, apparatus, and material for the elaborate practical course in Part 1 Geology as originally designed by Professor Judd and somewhat modified by his successor. Both these laboratories have ready access to the Ramsay Drawing Office liberally furnished by the generosity of the Geological Surveys of Britain and the Colonies, India and the United States, with maps, sections, and memoirs. The chemical laboratory, oil-technology laboratory, and library were next visited, and then the visitors passed to the advanced laboratories devoted to petrology, palreontology, and economic geology, some of which are at present only partially equipped in consequence of war stringency. Finally the corridor museum and the lecture rooms, one large and the other for small classes, were shown and the various appliances therein displayed. On leaving the Geological Department a visit was paid to the departments of mining and metallurgy, time only allowing pause in the Bessemer Laboratory of the former, which was shown by Mr. A. Davies in accordance with arrangements kindly permitted by Professor Frecheville. The stamps, milling and ore-dressing plant were explained by Mr. A. Davies, who had kindly devoted the afternoon to the purpose, and he also showed the visitors a Wilfley table and a magnetic separator at work. A vote of thanks was awarded to Mr. Davies, and the party then proceeded to the College Union, where tea was served.