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towards science were able to enjoy readings by Mr. Ernest Denny ; lantern 

 slides, illustrating the history and scenery of Lincolnshire, by Mi-. C. H. 

 Bothamley, F.I.C. ; while the committee had made arrangements by which 

 the picture by Mr. Lockhart, U.S.A., portraying the Jubilee Celebration 

 in Westminster Abbey could be inspected, and also a selection of 

 life-studies made in preparation for the picture. lu addition the library 

 had been furnished as a drawiiig-i-oom by Messrs. l^eid Bros., and hung 

 by Mr. Broadhead, of Albion Street, with an excellent collection of 

 oil paintings kindly contributed b3* Miss Taylor, and Messrs. W. P. 

 Bowman, A. S. Dixon, R. Jackson, J. Broadhead, W. F. Smithson, John 

 Waite, and Richard Wilson. A selection of music was given by the Leeds 

 Private Orchestral Society, under the direction of Mr. Staniland Hall. 

 The scientific interest of the visitors was maintained in various ways. 

 Amongst the microscopic exhibits shown under forty-one microscopes was 

 a series dealing with the larvae, pupa, and imago of simulium, exhibited 

 by Mr. Arthur Walker. Other objects included two donations to the 

 Society, made during the year. These are a line collection of birds' skins 

 and eggs from the interior of Austi'alia, the gift of Mr. G. A. Keartland, 

 of Melbourne, who has relatives in Leeds ; and a series of illustrated 

 publications sent by Professor Marsh, of Yale, United States, who was a 

 visitor at the Leeds meeting of the British Association, dealing with the 

 cretaceous fauna of North America. Among the general exhibits may be 

 mentioned a collection of birds and skins (chiefly British), and clutches of 

 the eggs of British birds ; photographs of mummies in the British 

 Museum ; and water-colour drawings of mammals, all contributed, and 

 the latter executed, by Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S. A very perfect 

 specimen of a trilobite was exhibited by Mr. E. Robinson; and a finely 

 executed sei'ies of micrographs was contributed by Mr. J. Jamieson. 



