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Outdoor Meetings. 
On Thursday, July 6th, by the kind permission of the Earl 
of Mansfield, the grounds of Ken Wood were open to members 
from 3 to8 p.m. At 6 p.m. Mr. P. E. Vizard and Mr. James E. 
Whiting conducted a party through the grounds. 
On Thursday, July 27th, a ramble was taken in Bishop’s 
Wood, by permission of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Mem- 
bers and their friends met at 5.30 at the house of Mr. Herbert 
Nield, J.P., M.P., Bishop’s Avenue, who kindly provided tea. 
As on the last occasion in 1903, when a meeting was arranged 
in Bishop’s Wood, the weather proved very wet. 
On Saturday, October 14th, a visit was paid to the Museum 
of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Mr. R. H. 
Burne, Anatomical Assistant, kindly showed the party over the 
Museum. 
A Field Meeting and ramble on the borders of the Buckingham- 
shire chalk country that had been arranged for Saturday, June 
17th, did not take place, owing to the day being very wet. 
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EHstronomical Section. 
2 The following Lectures were given during the year :— 
Friday, March 24th.—“ The Story of the Planets and Planetary 
Discovery,” by Mr. P. E. Vizard, F.R.A.S. 
Old Ideas; Planets known to the Ancients; Names of the 
Days of the Week ; Description of Mercury, Venus, Mars, 
Jupiter, Saturn; Sir W. Herschel and the Story of the 
Discovery of Uranus ; of the Minor Planets ; of Neptune ; 
of the New Star in Perseus; Discovery by Photography. 
Friday, March 31st.‘ The Telescope: its History and 
Construction,” by Mr. Harold W. Raisin, B.Sc. 
Story of the Discovery of the Telescope ; Action of Concave 
and Convex Mirrors and Lenses in reflecting and refracting 
Light ; Magnification and Inversion of Images ; Construc- 
tion of Telescope ; Different kinds of Telescopes, Refractors 
and Reflectors, Newtonian, Cassegrainian, etc. Some 
account of the chief Telescopes and Observatories of the 
World. 
