the influence of scieace. And who could limit its 

 influence in the future ■' The past had been a 

 series of triumphs, and the future, he believed, 

 and the near future perhaps, would still eclipse 

 those triumphs (loud applause). 



Rev. A. J. Galpin moved a very cordial vote of 

 thanks to the President.and Mr. W.H.Netherclift 

 seconded. 



Needless to say the vote was heartily accorded. 



SECOND WINTER MEETING. — NOVEMBER loth, 1903. 



EXHIBITION OF NEW SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS. 



The usual fortnightly meeting was held in the 

 Reference Library of the Beaney Institute on 

 Tuesday evening-, November 10th. The meeting 

 took the form of an exhibition of new and novel 

 apparatus, and these were inspected by a larj^e 

 and iutert'sted attendance. Amongst the exhibits 

 were a mijroscope and prlariscope and a number 

 of bodies, showinj:; most brilliant and interesting 

 colours. Mr. W. P. Mann, Simon Lano;ton Schools, 

 exhibited a wireless telegraphy apparatus, with 

 two different forms of receivers in different parts 

 of the rojm, and also a spinthariscope, an instru- 

 ment containing a minute quaatity o*' radium on 

 a n-;edle point, placed immediately over the centre 

 of a small floresceat scre^rn. At the other end of 

 the small tube is a lens, and when the eye is placed 

 over these, it sees what looks like a very brilliant 

 display of shooting stars, caused by the emana- 

 tions from the radium on the needle point striking 

 the floreecent screen, thus causing a flash of light. 

 This wondei'ful process seems to go on without 

 intermission for ever. Mr. Mann also exhibited a 

 number of other interesting electrical apparatus. 

 Mr. Gard showed a wireless telegraphy ap- 

 paratus , and several appliances for testing 

 the efficiency and candle power of electric 

 lamps. He also exhibited some splendid telegraph 

 instruments including the well-known Morse 

 instruments and a pair of Telautograph instru- 

 menti which had been used between Scotland 

 Yard and Liverpool, and by means of which 



drawings of criminals were transmitted from one 

 place to the other. Some excellent spectroscopes 

 and other interesting instruments were 5hown by 

 Mr. W. H. Hammond, and a huge fossil shell 

 which had recently been dug up in bis sandpits 

 was exhibited by Mr. Cozens. Mr. Blascheck, of 

 the Electric Light Works, kindly sent a record 

 volt meter and an Ammeter by which minute 

 variations in the electric current of the city are 

 rendered visible and recorded. Mr. A. Lander 

 also showed a very interesting and unique collec- 

 tion of new weather appliances which have been 

 recently perfected to such an extent that he was 

 requested by the British Weather Office to exhibit 

 them before the British Association at South- 

 port, a few weeks ago. These instruments 

 included a sunshine recorder, a thermograph, 

 a glycerine barometer, an anemometer which 

 records the wind's velocity and direction. One 

 of these may now be seen at work in Messrs. 

 Lander and Smith's window in High Street. Mr. 

 Lander also exhibited a rain-gauge and hair 

 hygrcmetfr for recording the fluctnations in the 

 moisture present in the atmosphere. These in- 

 struments have been sent to Kew Observatory for 

 exhaustive testing, and if they prove successful 

 there is every prospect of their being adopted 

 officially as Standard instruments. The whole of 

 the exhibits weie greatly enjoyed and the details 

 of the various apparatus were examined with the 

 closest interest. 



THIRD WINTER MEETING.— NOVEMBER 24th, 1903. 



COMPETITION LANTERN SLIDES FROM ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC 



SOCIETY. 



This meeting was held in the Reference Library 

 of the Beaney Institute and took the form of an 

 exhibition of the competition lantern slides from 

 the Royal Photographic Society. These slides 

 were of peculiar interest to us, owing to the 

 f.ict that many of our members hid sent slides to 

 the competition, and three of the competi- 

 tors, viz , Messrs. W. H. Hammond, F. C. Snell, 



and C. Buckingham were successful in having their 

 slides purchased, and these were included in the 

 collection of ninety magnificent slides which were 

 bhown during the evening. Taking the slides as a 

 whole, the opinion was freely expressed that they 

 were the finest collection of slides ever shown in 

 Canterbury. 



