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FRIDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1894. 



SOIREE AT THE ROYAL PAVILION. 



The Soirees of the Society, which had been held annually 

 from 1872 to 1885, but which had been discontinued since the 

 last-mentioned date, were resumed this year, A Committee was 

 formed to carry out the arrangements connected therewith, and 

 consisted of Mr. D. E. Caush (Chairman), Messrs. Newsholme, J. 

 Colbatch Clark, De Paris, H. Davey, jun., T. P. Slingsby 

 Roberts, Dr. Treutler, H. Edmonds, G. Foxall, W. Harrison, T. 

 Lewis, W. W. Mitchell, E. J. Petitfourt, and E. AUoway Pank- 

 hurst, who acted as Secretary. Sub-Committees were also 

 formed of the Photographic, the Microscopical, and Botanical 

 Sections to arrange for the exhibits, &c., in their general depart- 

 ments. 



The proceedings commenced at 8 o'clock with a few words by 

 Dr. Newsholme (President), who welcomed the guests to the Soiree 

 of a Society which had for a period of just on forty years striven 

 to encourage in Brighton that love of natural science, and that 

 devotion to scientific pursuits which otherwise would perhaps have 

 languished and died out in the enervating social atmosphere of a 

 town whose name was associated more with pleasure than arduous 

 study. Dr. Newsholme then introduced Mr. W. Martin Conway, 

 who gave his lecture on " Climbing and Exploration in the Kara- 

 koram," which was illustrated by a splendid series of photographs 

 which he had taken at different altitudes in his expedition in the 

 Himalyas, during which he bad attained the unprecedented 

 height of 23,000 feet. During the evening short addresses were 

 given by different gentlemen in connection with the objects 

 exhibited in the rooms. 



Mr. T. Lewis, of New Shoreham, spoke on the Lavant Caves 

 which he had explored in connection with his friend, Mr. C. 

 Dawson, F.G.S. The articles discovered in them, which he ex- 

 hibited, included flint implements, spear heads, a lamp, bronze 

 ornaments, &c. Mr. Clarkson Wallis, in the absence of Mr. C» 



