Some Scientific Centres

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No. XIII.—THE MECHANICS LABORATORY OF THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS description of the mechanics laboratory of the Imperial College of Science and Technology may not improbably appear to some readers as premature, in consideration of the fact that the college was so recently founded and the new rector, Dr. Bovey, appointed only within the last few months. It was as the mechanics laboratory of the Royal College of Science that until lately it was known, and under that name it achieved the great success that time and Prof. Perry brought to it. What that laboratory has been for the past ten or more years to engineering students in London will not readily be forgotten by Prof. Perry's old students, and a piece of creative work of this kind is too valuable to be lost. It is therefore a matter for congratulation that the laboratory has found a place in the new Imperial College, and in doing so it has, we hope, taken a new lease of life and usefulness.