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Bhoals. and san<?baQks round all the coasts of the 

 world. Mr. BiickiDo^ham had brought twoeularge- 

 meotj of woodland scenes at Eppin^ Fore&t, and 

 Mr. Rrownhill some foreign ferns and mosses. 

 Mr. Snell had brought some pictures, which those 

 members whu heard his recent lecture about 

 clouds would be very interested in looking rtt, as 

 several of the pictures were described in that 

 lecture. The Society's microscope was on the 

 table, and Miss Holmes and Miss Phillpotts had 

 also brought theirs. The same ladies had kindly 

 arranged on the tables a number of spring flowers, 

 and also some specimens showing the large collec- 

 tions of orchids in the herbarium. Mr. Austen 

 had brought his Biokam, which was an appaiatu** 

 for taking and exhibiting living pictures. The 

 Secretary went on to express regret that the Royal 

 Photographic Society had been unable as yet to 

 send their loan collection of prizo photoi^raphs 

 for exhibition, and then exhibited his Wireless 

 Telegraphy appavatup, by which, he said, messages 

 could be transmitted for many miles. He had 

 i»lso fitted up a receiver, and delighted the 

 audience by switching on the electricity and 

 producing a current which moved tbe indicator 

 in the receiver at the other end of the room. He 

 exhibited a phonograph, and explained how 

 it could be connected to a loud-speaking telephone 

 by which the phonograph or any instrumnnt could 

 be heard by a rooin-fuU of people, when the 

 instrument emitting the sound was perhaps miles 

 away. The Secretary humorously suggested 



that the Canterbury Press would porhap.? 

 in the near future set up an instrument of 

 this kind in their office, with a wire connected 

 with tbe different rooms where meetings were held. 

 By this means reports could be received and writtr-n 

 out by the reporters without attending the meet- 

 ings (laughter). He alsoshowed aehart sho^ving 

 the weather in Canterbury during April, and said 

 that that day the thermometer stood at 74 degn^es 

 in the shade, which was the hottest day of the year, 

 and that was also the fifth successive day of 

 coatinuous sunshine in Canterbury, a thing wh'oh 

 was almost unprecedented at the present time uf 

 the year. During the first three weeks of March 

 they had only 40 hours of sunshine.but for the same 

 period of April they had had 143 hours, so they 

 were making up for lost time. Mr. Lander also 

 exhibited a standard barometer and mentioned 

 that the readings of the barometers as reported in 

 the various morning papers varied very greatly, 

 and for accurate and comparative work it was 

 necessary to have standard instruments and to 

 compare all others with them at frequent 

 intervals. Many of the instruments in use and 

 generally supplied were far from accurate. He 

 also exhibited a Kromskop, an apparatus for 

 showing photographs in colours, and the pictures 

 seen in all the colours of nature were very much 

 admired by those present. 



A very pleasant and interesting evening was 

 spent and the wish was expressed that more 

 meetings of a similar kind should be held. 



DEATH OF OIR PRE8IDEXT 



(COUNCILLOR STEPHEN HORSLEY). 



By the death of Mr.Stephen Horsley, who expired 

 on Wednesday morning, May 1st, at one o'clock. 

 the City of Canterbury su stains a great and 

 lamented loss. The deceased gentleman has 

 been an invalid for many months, but with care 

 and nursing it was hoped that his valuable life 

 would have been spared for some years, (jrave 

 symptoms, however, made their appearance on 

 Monday last, and the result upon a frame already 

 much enfeebled proved fatal, as stated, at the 

 early agn of 53 years. 



Mr. Horsley wasa son of the Rev. J. W. Horsley. 

 first Vicar of Dunkirk, near Faversham, and of 

 Mrs. Horsley, now a rt^sid^nt at Dover. Born at 

 Dunkirk on St. Stephen's Da.y, 1847, be was 

 educated at King's S^ihool. Canterbury, and early 

 devehiped a taste for the profession of a Civil 

 Engineer, He went to India in that cjipacity in 

 18t>7, and spent 2(5 arduous years as a Civil ser- 

 vant, having under his charge a very extensive 

 district. He returned to England and settled in 

 Canterbury in 1893, and with his characteristic 

 energy at once threw himself into every kind of 

 religious and philj.nthropic work, especially that 

 affecting the welfare of the younger generation. 



As Town Councillor, Sheriff, member of the School 

 Board, and a Governor of the Simon Langton 

 Schcol— not to mention the fact that he was 

 President of the Ei.st Kent Natural History Swiety 

 and Curator of the Beaney Institute — he worked 

 unceasingly and harder perhaps than his failing 

 health justified. His many kind acts and self- 

 forgetting conduct won him hosts of friends, 

 especially among the youog, and the memory of 

 his genial presence, his able service to the Church, 

 and hi.^ good citizenship, will not soon fade away. 

 He was an enthusiastic Freemason, and his 

 presence will be sadly missed by his brethren of 

 the United Industrious Lodge, No. 31. 



The late Mr. Horsley was a brother of the Rev. 

 J. W. Horsley. for many years Chaplain of 

 Clerkenwell Prison ; nephew of the late Colonel 

 Horsley ; and a cou.sin of Mr. W. H. Horsley, of 

 St. Stephen's. He leaves a widow, four sons, and 

 a married daughter, with all of whom the deepest 

 sympathy is felt. 



Tne loss sustained by tli« Ea-t Kent Natural 

 History Society by the death of Mr. Stephen 

 Horsley during the term of his Presidentship is 

 simply irreparable. He was a born scientist, and 



