Qualified Women Make a Contribution in Research Work By A. J, Stewaxr Tuostas Haxstny Sewoou For Bors.
It may be of interest to point out tone or two concrete instances of the way in which specialist instruction operates in the case of girl There is at the present time Indy working at Cambridge whose researches have proved of very great value in the science of aviation, She has recently published the results of her labours in connection with the nature and the behaviour of the atmosphere at very high altitudes. Her theme marks a very' distinct advance, not only as a contribution towards compilation of little known facts but also in the method of aproaching such problems as concern aviation at great heights and these features have been duly re~ cognised by scientific contemporaries, In the commercial world the field of discovery less markedly in Process of. im Miss -C. Knight, s1.sc,, who holds the pos tion of works chemist with Box-ford Ltd, cently' subr printing trade a short paper dealing with the difficulties of producing. not only concerned ses on the cardboard, Questions of the acidity or alkalinity' of the contents are og much a part of her daily problem, as is the effect of the water content in either the atmos phere or the goods contained.
She is concerned with expansion id contraction as it affects printing and her work aims at an accuracy. recording movement of the material either with the grain or across the grain down to one ten-thousandth of an inch, Nor is she concerned only with the cardboard, She has to on sider such metal reinforcements as at the edges and the corners and the chemical compositions of inks used for lettering.
During this past few weeks the Ideal Home Exhibition has been held in London and in preparation for the display, women as experts in interior decoration of houses, as con-sultans in. laying out pleasure grounds and as architects In. planning suitable home buildings have been, busy in many departments Neb are no longer the prerogative It will be understood that a long study is ly held, Tu mentioned examples, the acquisition of a good science degree has been followed by courses of post-graduate work and research, the period at the university probably extending over five years,
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