The Science Society

President: MR. E. K. ROBINSON. Hon. Secretary: G. W. RILEY.

Five meetings were held this term. The first consisted of the showing of three films of general interest. They were (i) "Life on the Western Marshes", which dealt with the preservation of wild animal life on the western marshes of Canada. This film was produced by "Ducks Unlimited", an organisation concerned with the safeguard of wild ducks and geese. (ii) "Night Mail", which told the story of the journey of the night mail train from London to the north. We saw the mail being sorted, collected and ejected by the train at high speed. (iii) "The Sunny Tribe", a Russian film on the life story of the bee. This film included excellent shots of the transfer of a swarm to a new hive, and a fight between two rival queens.

At the second meeting of the term Mr. E. S. Jeffs, assisted by J. M. Holt, gave a lecture on "The Production and Uses of High Voltages". Mr. Jeffs dealt first with static electricity, demonstrating the Wimshurst Machine and describing the Van der Graaf induction machine. Dealing secondly with current electricity, Mr. Jeffs exhibited various transformers, Jacob's Ladder, and the Tesla Coil. Mr. Jeffs concluded his lecture by demonstrating the properties of X-rays.

It was decided this term that each House should again provide an evening's programme. School House was the first to do so when J. M. Holt spoke on "Primitive Man" and M. D. 'Rusholme gave a lecture entitled "Jet Engines and the development of Jet Aircraft". Holt explained the sources of our information on early man, and dealt briefly with the history of the world before the coming of man. He went on to describe the stone, bronze and iron ages. Rusholme opened his lecture by describing, with the aid of a carefully drawn diagram, the principle of the jet engine. He then traced the history of jet aircraft, showing many photographs by means of the epidiascope.

Mr. E. K. Robinson, at the fourth meeting of the term, gave a talk entitled "A Holiday with a Camera". He showed various photographs, mainly in colour, which he had taken around York and on a holiday in Switzerland. Mr. Robinson pointed out the good and bad features of his photographs with a view to the audience raising the standard of their photographs. He emphasised the importance of making pictures and not merely snapshots.

The Manor provided three speakers for the last meeting of the term : (i) A. D. J. Wood spoke on "Cacti and Succulent Plants". He explained the origins of this type of plant and showed specimens. He 38