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THE annual report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 1935 provides ample evidence that although the Society has passed its centenary (see also p. 547 of this issue), age does not diminish its activities, and that it continues to play an important part in stimulating interest in education and industry throughout the county. Foremost among its proceedings are its exhibition and summer meeting, held last year at Penzance. At the exhibition both art and science were well represented, while the industrial exhibits included a working model of the flotation process of separating minerals that contain an excess of sulphides. There was also a special section of scientific apparatus used for teaching. The report contains three original memoirs, one on the ancient mining districts of Cornwall by Mr. F. J. Stephens, another on Cornwall's part in ceramic history by Mr. E. A. Rees and a third on some minor foundries of Cornwall, based on material collected by the late Mr. S. Michell. It also includes the report of the Cornwall Rainfall Association for 1934 and the report on the Falmouth Observatory, with meteorological notes and tables for 1935. The observatory receives a grant from the Falmouth Town Council, and is inspected periodically on behalf of the Air Ministry. In a comparison of the records at Falmouth with those in other parts of England and Wales, Mr. W. T. Hooper, the superintendent of the observatory, says: “It will be seen therefore that the maximum temperature range at Falmouth was 52°, as compared with 79° elsewhere, and our hottest day was 13° cooler, and our coldest day 14° warmer than the extreme temperature as a whole. This equability is the outstanding characteristic of our local climate. As regards sunshine, “in the year's aggregate, percentage and daily average, Falmouth is a good third in order of merit”.
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The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Nature 137, 527 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137527a0
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