A GREAT OCCASION.
As was anticipated by the promoters of the tercentenary celebration of the discovery of Logarithms, to be held next July, the application for tickets has been overwhelming. The Albert Hall, Olympia, and the White City, each of which in turn was selected for the place of meeting, have been successively abandoned as inadequate, and it has now been decided to roof in the whole of Hyde Park. Even with the huge amount of accommodation thus available it is feared that many millions will have to be turned away.
Excursion trains will be run from all parts, and the advanced bookings are already said to have eclipsed the record for the Cup Final.
The whole period of the celebration will be regarded as a public holiday, and the Stock Exchange will be closed.
Some idea of the entertaining character of the festival will be gathered from the following abstracts from the preliminary programme, a copy of which we have had the privilege of inspecting.
The ceremony will open to the strains of Sir Edwin Elgar's Logarithmic Symphony, composed specially for the occasion.
Among the papers to be read in the course of the proceedings we note:
Mr. John Masefield will recite a poem, entitled "The Log of the Widow's Cruise."
An interesting contrast to the flood of eulogy will be supplied by Sir Almroth Wright, who, taking the view that the simplicity with which logarithms can be handled is leading the nation inevitably towards mental atrophy, will introduce the question, "The Logarithm: is it a Public Menace?"