The British Association has approved the experiments being made the Museum experts with the remarkable torsion balance recently described in the "Morning Post." This instrument might be described as a. scientific divining rod. Funds have been obtained for the proposed experiments, which will not only be of interest to geologists and engineers, but may prove useful for locating oils and minerals.
Many schools and engineering colleges which have been in the habit of using the Science Museum as a means of instruction foy their students will regret the closing of the Western Galleries, which took place last week. The valuable exhibits have been pacha od up and stored away, and probably the public will not see them again for a year or more. The reason ig that space had to be found for the War Museum, which is being removed from the Crystal Palace.
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