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Reprinted from "Kentish Gazette," December 24, 1867. 



On the evening of Tuesday last, a lecture was delivered, 

 uuder the auspices of the above Society, on " Microscopic 

 Illumination," by the Rev. J. B. Reade, V.P., F.R.S. There 

 was a small attendance ; which was all the more to be re- 

 gretted as the lecture was a rare treat. The chair was 

 occupied by Colonel Cox, the President of the Society, who 

 introduced the lecturer in a few appropriate remarks. 



Mr. Reade commenced his lecture with a few 

 general observations on the importance and interest of the 

 subject upon which he was to address the audience, ex- 

 plaining how very much of what was seen in the microscope 

 depended on the way the object was illuminated. It was a 

 subject of a rather abstruse character, and would require at 

 his hands considerable amplification and illustration. Ho 

 then proceeded to speak first of the necessity of illumina- 

 tion under the microscope, and next of the various methods 

 which had been devised for that purpose up to the present 

 time. Fifty year* ago he used Dollond's best microscope 



