Journal of the Society of Arts : Volume LI, No. 2623 [‎709r] (7/32)

Pebtuary 27, 1903.]
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1903.
A ll communications for the Society should be addressed to
the Secretary, John-street, Adelphi, London, IV.C.
Notices.
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NEXT WEEK.
Monday, March 2, 8 p.m. (Cantor
Lectures.) Professor J. A. Fleming,
M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., “ Hertzian Wave Tele
graphy in Theory and Practice.” (Lecture I.)
Tuesday, March 3 , 4.30 p.m. (Colonial
Section.) Herbert Samuel, M.P., “The
Uganda of To-day.”
Wednesday, March 4, 8 p.m. (Ordi
nary Meeting.) J. C. Medd, “ Education in
Holland.”
Further details of the Society’s meetings will
be found at the end of this number.
FIRE PREVENTION PRIZES.
The Council of the Society of Arts, at the
request of the Executive Committee of the
International Fire Prevention Exhibition, have
decided to offer, out of the funds of the
Fothergill Trust, the following prizes at the
Exhibition which is to be held at Earl’s Court
during the current year :—
For the best chemical fire engines for
town use shown at the Exhibition :—One
gold medal, two silver medals, and two
bronze medals.
For the most easily worked long ladders,
to reach the sill of a window 80 feet
above the level of the pavement, which
shall also be capable of being rapidly
transported over roads of not more than
25 feet wide, shown at the Exhibition:—One
gold medal, two silver medals, and two
bronze medals.
The medals will be awarded by the Council
on the report of the judges appointed by the
Executive of the Exhibition.
The Council reserve the right of withholding
any of the medals, or of awarding medals of
lesser value, if in their opinion the exhibits
should not be deserving of any, or all, of the
medals offered.
CANTOR LECTURES.
On Monday evening, 23rd inst., Mr. JULIUS
Hubner delivered the fourth and concluding
lecture of his course on “ Paper Manufacture.”
A vote of thanks to the lecturer for his course
of lectures was passed on the motion of the
Chairman.
The Lectures will be printed in the Journal
during the summer recess.
INDIAN SECTION.
Thursday afternoon, February 26, 1903 ; Sir
Robert J. C. Mowbray, Bart., M.P., in the
chair. The paper read was “Gleanings from
the Indian Census.” By JERVOISE Athel«
stane Baines, C.S.I.
The paper and report of the discussion will
be published in next week’s number of the
Journal.
Proceedings of the Society.
APPLIED ART SECTION
On Tuesday evening, February 17, 1903 ;
Lewis Foreman Day, Vice-President of the
Society, in the chair.
The paper read was—
HERALDRY IN DECORATION.
By George W. Eve.
The choice of heraldry in decoration as a
subject on which to offer suggestions to the
Applied Art Section of the Society of Arts is
influenced (apart from the necessity of limiting
in some measure the scope of heraldic art
in general) by the consideration that, as it
was in decoration that heraldry found admirable
expression from a very early period, its deco
rative use in the past is now worth study with
a view to the satisfactory execution of modern
work.