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The discussion was also continued by Mr. J. Bradshaw and 
Alderman Greenwood, the latter of whom moved a hearty vote 
of thanks to the Lecturer, it was seconded by Mr. J. Kay, J.P., 
and supported by Mr. T. P. Smith. 
The Lecturer briefly replied and gave the audience an 
opportunity of examining a number of interesting Canadian 
souvenirs of the tour. 

SOME WONDERS OF THE SKY, OR 
GLIMPSES THROUGH AN ASTRONOMICAL 
TELESCOPE. 
(Wits Lantern Views). 
By Rev. ROBERT H. KILLIP. 8th March, 1904. 
In the absence of the President, the chair was occupied by 
Mr. George Gill, and there was a large attendance. 
The Lecturer, after showing a series of slides and describing 
the Lick and other telescopes, took the audience in imagination 
into his own astronomical observatory, and spoke without notes 
for over an hour on the panorama of celestial astronomy revealed 
by the slides, beginning with ‘‘ our daughter the moon,” with its 
volcanoes, so-called seas, and range of lunar Appenines. Some 
of the craters were sixty miles in diameter, and 18,000 feet in 
depth. In the full of the moon there was a crater, from which 
radiate streaks of light in all directions. What they were nobody 
knew. It had been suggested that they were streams of lava 
