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Hstronomical Section, 
A course of five elementary lectures on Astronomy 
was given by Mr. P. E. Vizard, beginning on Monday, 
November 2oth, 1899. 
The subjects dealt with being— 
Our position in the Universe ; the Difference between Planets and 
Fixed Stars; the Members of our own Family—Mercury, Venus, Mars, 
the Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune ; the Earth and her 
Movements—Real and Apparent Movements; Daily Motion ; Day and 
Night ; Solar and Sidereal Day ; Annual Motion ; Signs of the Zodiac ; 
Obliquity of Ecliptic ; The Seasons ; the Celestial Sphere ; Face of the 
Sky and its Changes; Appearance of the Sky at the Poles, at the 
Equator, etc. 
A second course of five lectures was given by Mr. 
P. E. Vizard, beginning on Tuesday, 6th February, 
1900, the subject being “ The Moon, our Satellite and 
nearest Neighbour,” and included— 
The Moon’s Phases; her Movements; The Harvest Moon; The 
Moon in relation to the Month aud Week; in relation to Eclipses, 
Solar and Lunar; in relation to the Tides; to the law of Gravitation ; 
Theories as to the Moon’s Origin and Destiny, etc. 
A third course of six lectures was given by Mr. 
P. E. Vizard, beginning on Monday, 12th November, 
1900, the subject being ‘‘ The New Astronomy ; or, The 
Spectroscope and its Marvellous Revelations,” and 
included— 
Spectrum Analysis; Movements of Stars; Nebule and Star 
Clusters ; Dark” Stars; Variable and Double Stars ; Colours of Stars: 
The Milky Way; Celestial Photography ; Stellar Evolution and 
Dissolution, ete. 
All the above lectures were well attended and much 
appreciated by the members. Each course was illus- 
trated by models and diagrams, etc. 
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