'Lord Curzon's Notes on Persia: About 1889-1890' [‎695v] (1411/1486)

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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY Oh ARTS.
MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY.
Ordinary Meetings.
Wednesday evenings at Eight o’clock : —
May 15.—“The Street Traffic of London.” By
J. Stephen Jeans.
May 22.—“ The Use of Spirit as an Agent in
Prime Movers.” By A. F. Yarrow.
May 29.— “The Science of Ventilation as applied
to the Interior of Buildings.” By D. G. Hoey. Sir
Douglas Galton, K.C.B., F.R.S., will preside.
Applied Art Section.
Tuesday evenings, at Eight o’clock : —
May 14.—“ Venetian Glass.” By Dr. Salviati.
J. Hungerford Pollen will preside.
Indian Section.
Friday evenings, at Eight o’clock : —
May 31. — “ Indian Wheats.” By John
McDougall. J. M. Maclean, M.P., will preside.
Attention is drawn to some alterations in the
.above dates. The reading of Mr. Lorraine’s paper on
■“ Automatic Selling Machines ” has been postponed.
Cantor Lectures.
The following course of Cantor Lectures
will be delivered on Monday evenings at Eight
•o’clock:—
H. Graham Harris, M.Inst.C.E., “ Heat
Engines other than Steam.” Four Lectures.
Lecture II.— May 13 TH.— Boyle’s law—Gay
Lussac’s law—Expansion—Indicator diagrams—W att
indicator—Original instrument—Richards —Modes of
•testing engines—Balance-sheets— Division of classes
—Hot-air engines—Types of these—Use of re
generator — Stirling — Bucket — Ericsson — Bailey
—Rider—Other engines—Possible efficiency—Actual
efficiency—Losses—Practical difficulties—Modes of
•overcoming these—Suggestions for improvement.
Lecture III. — May 20TH. — Gas-engines—
1 listory—Lenoir— Hugon—Electrical firing—Direct
tlame firing—Otto and Langen—Bischoff—Compres
sion—Crossley — Crossley's igniter—Clerk—Atkinson
—Griffin—Other engines—Turning effort on crank
shaft—Possible efficiency of the gas-engine—Actual
•efficiency—Losses—Practical difficulties—Modes of
overcoming these—Suggestions for improvement
Crossley’s compound gas-engine—Turning effort on
crank shaft—Application of the regenerator—
Siemens’s regenerative gas-engine—Dowson gas—
Water gas.
Lecture IV.—May 27.— Petroleum-engines—
Brayton and others—Other forms of heat-engines —
Gunpowder pile-drLer — Guncotton-engine—Honig-
man’s caustic soda engine—Mixed air and steam-
engine— Ether and steam—DuTrembley—Recent
American experiments — Yarrow — “ Arktos ” —
Electrical heat-engines — Thermopile — Edison —
General conclusions.
MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.
Monday, May 13...SOCIETY OF ARTS, John-street,
Adelphi, W.C., 8 p.m. (Cantor Lectures.) Mr.
H. Graham Harris, “ Heat Engines other than
Steam.” (Lecture II.)
Geographical, University of London, Burlington-
gardens, W., 84 p.m. Mr. J. R. Werner, “ The
Congo and the Ngala and Aruwhimi Tributaries.”
Discussion on the Letter of Mr. H. M. Stanley
read on April 8th.
Tuesday, May 14 .. SOCIETY OF ARTS, John-street,
Adelphi, W.C., 8 p.m. (Applied Art Section )
Dr. Salviati, “ Venetian Glass.”
Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, W., 3 p.m.
Dr. J. P. Richter, “The Italian Renaissance
Painters : their Employment.” (Lecture III.)
Medical and Chirurgical, 53, Berners - street,
Oxford-street, W., 84 p.m.
Civil Engineers, 25, Great George-street, S.M .,
8 p.m. Discussion on Mr. W. H. Greenwood’s
paper, “ The Treatment of Steel by Hydraulic
Pressure, and the Plant emploj’ed for the purpose.”
Anthropological, 3, Hanover-squarc, W., 84 p m. 1.
Mr. Arthur Thomson, “The Osteology of the
Veddahs of Ceylon.” 2. Mrs. R. Braithwaite
Batty, “Notes on the Yoruba Country.” 3. Mr.
H. Ling Roth, “ Salutations.”
Colonial Institute, Whitehall-rooms, Hotel Metro-
pole, S.W., 8 p.m. Mr. E. N. C. Braddon,
“ Tasmania ; its Resources and Prospects.”
Wednesday, May 15...SOCIETY OF ARTS, John-street,
Adelphi, W.C., 8 p.m. Mr. J. S. Jeans, “ The
Street Traffic of London.”
Meteorological, 25, Great George-street, S.W.,
7 p.m. x. Mr. W. H. Dines, “ Account of some
Experiments made to investigate the connection
between the Pressure and Velocity of the Wind.”
2. Mr. C. H. Blackley, “ On an improved Method
of preparing Ozone Paper, and other forms of the
Test, with Starch and Potassium Iodide.” 3.
Mr. Frank Russell, “ On the Climate of Akassa,
Niger Territory.”
Pharmaceutical, 17, Bloomsbury - square, W.C.,
it a.m. Annual Meeting.
Botanic, Inner Circle, Regent’s-park, N.W., 2 p.m.
Summer Exhibition.
Archaeological Association, 32, Sackville-street, W.,
8 p.m.
Thursday, May 16...Royal, Burlington-house, W., 4.4 p-m.
Antiquaries, Burlington-house, W., 84 p.m.
Sanitary Institute, Parkes Museum, 74A, Margaret-
street. W., 5 p.m. Mr. H. E. Davis, “ Fires and
Fire Escapes, and the Prevention and Arrest ot
Fires.”
Chemical, Burlington-house, W., 8 p.m.
Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, W., 3 p.m.
Prof. Dewar, “ Chemical Affinity.” (I.ecture I.)
Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, 25, Great
George-street, S.W., 8 p.m.
Historical, 11, Chandos-street, W., 84 p.m.
Numismatic, 22, Albemarle-street, W.C., 7 p.m.
Friday, May 17... United Service Inst., Whitchall-yard,
3 p.m. Capt. G. H. V. Noel, “The Training of
the Executive Branch of the Navy.”
Royal Institution, Albemarlc-strcet, W., 8 p.ra.
Weekly Meeting, 9 p.m. Prof. Silvanus Thomp
son, “ Optical Torque.”
Philological, University College, W.C., 8 p.m. Rev.
Dr. Richard Morris, “ Pali Miscellanies.”
Saturday, May 18...Royal Institution, Albemarle-street,
W., 3 p.m. Mr. J Bennett “The Origin and
Development of Opcn^i^lM^^njc^j^ , Lecture