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THE Council of King's College have decided to give the name “Wheatstone Laboratory” to the physical laboratory of the College, in honour of Sir Charles Wheatstone, who was for some years Professor of Experimental Philosophy in the College, to which he also bequeathed his valuable collection of physical apparatus. The report of the laboratory work shows that the physical laboratory was established in the year 1868, and that during the eleven years of its existence about 250 students have been trained in it in the various branches of practical physics. The average number of occasional students—i.e., students who are engaged in research and do not attend with any special class, has been nine a year during the last five years. Among these are graduates of the older universities, who come to reside in London after they have completed their term of residence at the University. Engineering students in their third year's course have the privilege of working in the laboratory free of charge There are also special practical classes which have been well attended, for the Bachelor of Science and the Preliminary Scientific M.B. Examinations of the University of London, and also special classes for evening class students who are engaged in business during the day-time. In all there are not less than forty students now engaged in practical work in physics in “the Wheatstone Laboratory” in King's College The Laboratory is greatly in need of endowment, in order that an additional Demonstrator may be appointed, and the usefulness of the laboratory still further extended.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 19, 594 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019594a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/019594a0