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IN the course of its twenty-one years of existence the Institute of Metals has rendered great services to the science of metallurgy, and has been the means of encouraging research into many metal-lurgical problems. Its latest volume contains a number of valuable papers. Sir Oliver Lodge's May lecture will be read with interest, consisting as it does of personal reminiscences of scientific discovery in connexion with the electrical and magnetic properties of metals, with suggestive speculations as to the nature of their underlying causes. Good work is being done in Great Britain in the difficult but important field of the establishment of equilibrium diagrams for alloy systems, and the systems magnesium-zinc and cadmium-gold have been added to those which have been studied in the light of modern ideas as to equilibrium in solids, whilst the volume also includes a further study of the age-hardening of certain aluminium alloys, a phenomenon of technical importance which has now been shown to be much more general than had been supposed.
The Journal of the Institute of Metals, Vol. 41.
Edited by G. Shaw Scott. Pp. xii + 825 + 42 plates. (London: Institute of Metals, 1929.) 31s. 6d. net.
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The Journal of the Institute of Metals, Vol 41. Nature 124, 649 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124649b0
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