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it has become a recognised branch or department in all imperial 

 colonial, and even private scientific research. Pleading guilty 

 to exposing a few plates during the past season, some of them, 

 indeed, on the club's excursions, and several fellow members 

 having with great trouble and patience prepared lantern slides 

 from most of them, it was suggested to me that they should 

 be shown on the screen, with a short historical commentary 

 on the subject as they pass before you. For myself I might 

 say that T was not on the club's excursion to the Boyne, as it 

 was arranged for a date of which I could not avail myself, but 

 taking advantage of an opportunity in June I visited the 

 locality in company with Mr. Stewart. The negatives then 

 obtained have been supplemented by others taken by members, 

 To these again others which fall in with them have been added, 

 and thus the scheme which originally intended the illustration 

 of the Boyne views has grown till it embraces the entire past 

 season's work, as well as some of former year?, together with 

 examples of how geology, botany, and zoology may be illustra- 

 ted. It is to be hoped that copies of most of the pictures will, 

 before long, find a place in the club's albums. At this point the 

 lights in the room were lowered, and a series of 120 views were, 

 in succession, thrown on a large screen by lime-light, many 

 of which elicited applause by the brilliant manner in which 

 they were shown. The reader supplemented the views with 

 concise notes on their most striking features or historical as- 

 sociations. The pictures illustrative of geology and botany 

 especially elicited approbation. Three magnificent astronomi- 

 cal photographs were also exhibited ; they were taken by Mr. 

 S. W. Barnhatn, who was well known in Chicago as an ama- 

 teur photographer before he recently accepted the post of one 

 of the astronomers at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, 

 in California. These photographs were sent by him to Mr. 

 J. W. Ward, a member of the club, who had them prepared for 

 lantern illustration. They represent the moon in three aspects, 

 and were taken by his immense telescope in the Lick Obser- 

 vatory. A thirty-three-inch photo lens was inserted in the 



