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LONDON.—During the session 1917-18 Prof. John Adams, professor of education in the University, will give two courses of lectures which will be open without fee to teachers. The first course will begin on October 13, and will be on “Collective Psychology.” The second course will be on “Attention,” and will begin on January 19, 1918. A course of lectures on “The Practical Applications of the Study of Weather” will be given at the Meteorological Office, South Kensington, by Sir Napier Shaw, on Fridays during the second term, beginning on January 25. The fortnightly meetings of the Meteorological Office for the discussion of important contributions to current meteorology in. Colonial or foreign journals will be resumed at 5 p.m. on Monday, October 22. The lectures are addressed to advanced students of the University and to others interested in the subject. Admission is free, by ticket to be obtained on application at the Meteorological Office. The following are among:the public lectures in Imperial studies arranged for the first term of the session 1917-18:—At University College: October 8, Types of Climate in the Empire, Prof. L. W. Lyde; October 18, The Effect of the War on Municipal-Engineering and Public Health, H. Percy Boulnois; October 22, Phonetics and its Value from the. Imperial Standpoint, D. Jones; October 31, Scientific Methods of Language Study and their Importance to the Empire, Harold E. Palmer; six Newmarch lectures on Statistics, Economics, and some Problems ¦ of the Day, Henry Higgs, beginning on November 7. At King's College: October 31, The Problems of the Pacific, Basil H. Thomson; November 14, The Development of Tropical Africa (the name of the lecturer will be announced later). At the London School of Economics: October 12, The Commercial Geography of the Empire, Prof. A. W. Kirkaldy; October 19, Coal, Arthur F. Pease; November 2, Mineral Oil, Prof. J. S. S. Brame; November 16, The Rarer Key Minerals, Sydney J. Johnstone. Arrangements as to further lectures will be announced later. The subjects dealt with will be iron and manganese ores, artificial manures, fodder, timber, wood-pulp and paper-making materials, fibres, tea, meat, leather and tanning materials.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 100, 99–100 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100099a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100099a0