A Past Student

News of past students is very acceptable to the "Spike," but seldom comes. Mr. H. S. Tily, Dunedin, sends us the following to show that Victoria College still has "a place in the sun:"—

"Mr. Lyndon Bastings, M.Sc, a former research student in the Physics Department, has recently finished a two years' course of study under Sir Ernest Rutherford at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. He has carried out researches on radio-activity, and as a result of his first year's work, was awarded a grant by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. A portion of this work has been published in the 'Philosophical Magazine' of December, 1924, as an article entitled 'Decay of Radium—E.' He has also devised an improved form of electro-scope which, by a greatly increased sensitivity, is expected to considerably facilitate work in the field of raidoactivity. He has now been appointed Lecturer in Physics under Professor Wag-staff at Durham University, England, and takes up his duties there in October."