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Proportion in architecture has been speculated and theorized upon ever since man turned his mind to the search for principles underlying design. In antiquity artificial canons of proportion in architecture were established, notably in Egypt and Greece, which were adhered to from custom, and which gained a semi-sanctity and authority through temple architecture being connected with the priestly office.

THE Lightning Research Committee, organized by the R. I. B. A. and the Surveyors' Institution, in a recent communication to observers state that they are now in possession of a large number of first-hand reports on cases of damage to buildings from lightning-stroke. As regards the general character of the injuries to which non-protected buildings are subject from this cause, the Committee consider that the information already collected furnishes ample material for deliberation, and that it is unnecessary further to multiply observations as to non-protected buildings.

THE Rev. Felix Shadwell, of Finningham, Stowmarket, Suffolk, contributes the following notes on the Acoustic Properties of Buildings from a speaker's point-of-view: