Are Examinations Necessary?

Sir, On March 12th, 1928, the world was shocked, and the engineering profession humiliated by an awful disaster, the failure of the St. Francis Dam near Los Angeles, Calif. More than 200 people perished and a great property loss was suffered.

After six thousand years of development, the science of building, during the last three decades, has acquired two things that contribute more to business efficiency and human happiness than any it employed before. The use of one brought the other. Steel made speed possible. Speed has allowed building to change in direct. ratio with human relationships, which have changed and changed again with a rapidity previously never even imagined. Together they have given us the one distinctly new contribution to the world's architectural progress that we have had in centuries, the steel-skeleton skyscraper. They have made old methods useless and new ones necessities to solve the problems of planning and constructing our annual crop of taller end larger buildings. Harvey Wiley Corbett

The new Science Museum which was opened by H.M. the King, accompanied by the Queen, on the 20th March, is the first stage of an important scheme which will extend ultimately from Exhibition Road to Queen's Gate, the total length of the building being 1,150 ft.