THE "MARLBURIAN" ON THE SKETCH-LECTURES. 155 



I also quote a few lines upon the same subject 

 from the Marlburian the private journal of Marl- 

 borough College which appeared shortly after the first 

 lecture had been delivered there : 



His appliances for illustration were excellent, and the result of 

 no little experience. A capacious canvas, which could be withdrawn 

 into a wondrously small compass ; chalks of all colours, selected to 

 rescue the entangling lines of insect-organs from the confusion 

 inevitable if portrayed in academic white alone ; and these, too, 

 bought at great price, and suited for use in the glare of gas-light 

 such light turns white to yellow yellow must be used for white ; 

 blue looks green, and green blue. That red which glowed on the 

 wings of a new-born gnat was hunted up and finally captured only in 

 Paris. Those who have tried to draw under such conditions at close 

 quarters will appreciate, too, the facility displayed in the use of 

 these, the truth to Nature, as far as is possible in section drawing, 

 and the accurate knowledge of detail, which only comes of careful 

 out-door study the motive of which is love. 



The first drawing was a longitudinal section of a type-insect. An 

 impossible monster, therefore, but designed to show the structure 

 and position of the internal organs, and necessary to explain the 

 deeply esoteric title of the lecture. If it be not profanity to divulge 

 in print what we were told would not bear publication, that 

 title was " Entom archetype." The prodigy grew on that magic 

 canvas for all to behold, and though one felt it hard to like a beast 

 with such a name, it was not without a pang that we saw it make 

 way for more familiar creatures under the visitation of that remorse- 

 less sponge. 



I may perhaps also be permitted to quote the 

 following from the Altrinckam and Bowdoii Guardian of 

 October 8th, 1881 : 



Mr. Wood's method of lecturing is, we believe, unique. It con- 

 sists in producing upon a black canvas screen drawings of the objects 

 to be described. These are drawn in the presence of the audience 



