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themums and other ‘ pot” flowers kindly supplied by Mr. Philip 
Crowley. Mr. E. Lovett’s collection of old Dutch mangles was 
a very interesting one; and made the more so by the pleasant 
little lecture their owner gave concerning them and his other 
specimens. The mangles are flat pieces of wood, beautifully 
carved—one, in particular with a design of birds and animals in 
panels. It appears to have been the custom in Holland to 
present such mangles, bearing appropriate mottoes, to. young 
couples, on their marriage, as a part of their wedding outfit. 
Mr. Lovett also exhibited curios from Benin—one a wooden 
mirror frame with sliding shutter, exquisitely carved, and in 
which was inserted a piece of ordinary looking-glass obtained 
from Europeans; some interesting grades in the formation of 
the boomerang; hashish pipes from China; New Guinea war 
drums, one of which was cleft at one end so as to fit just above 
the knee. Very interesting, too, was Mr. H. C. Collyer’s collec- 
tion of lamps, ranging from the tiny Greek terra-cotta ones to 
the original of the bull’s-eye lantern of French origin, dating 
back to the eighteenth century. This possessed four bull’s-eyes. 
These lamps dated from various periods in the history of illu- 
mination, and were fashioned in brass, bronze, wrought iron, 
earthenware, terra-cotta, and one, a very beautiful sixteenth 
century Spanish lamp, in glass. There was also a very fine brass 
temple lamp from India. Another interesting exhibit was the 
“duplex telegraphy” apparatus for sending two messages on 
one wire, by which, during the evening, many messages were 
sent by special cable all the way from one end of the room to 
the other. Coun. Hinton’s observatory hive was also an object 
of great attention, the operations of the bees being watched 
through the walls of their glass prison by large numbers of 
interested spectators. The dark room, which was devoted to the 
exhibition of the X-rays, also came in for a great deal of notice, 
and at no time during the whole of the evening did it lack its 
share of visitors, who came to inspect their own bones or those 
of their friends through the agency of Rontgen’s wonderful dis- 
covery. In the Old School of Art Room displays were given at 
intervals by Messrs. Watson, of the Ives’ Kromskop and the 
cinematograph, which attracted crowded ‘‘ houses” on each 
occasion. The exhibition of photography in natural colours by 
the kroémskép was eminently interesting to those whose pursuits 
lead them into the regions of photography, and a number of very 
successful and beautiful examples were shown on the screen. 
The animated photographs were equally successful, and brought 
forth unstinted approval. A very interesting exhibit in the 
Large Hall was a collection of flowers gathered the same day in 
gardens in Addiscombe and Park Hill. Of these there were one 
hundred and nine kinds, of which sixty-seven were summer 
