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5ih February^ igoi. 

 Mr. J. BROWN, President, in the Chair. 



The President moved the following resolution : — " That the 

 members of this Society desire to express their deep sorrow at 

 the death of her Majesty Queen Victoria, their sense of the 

 great loss thereby sustained by the British nation, and to tender 

 their most humble and loyal duty to his Majesty King Edward, 

 with the fullest confidence that he will worthily occupy the 

 high place of her late revered Majesty." 



Mr. Robert Young, J.P., seconded the resolution, which, on 

 being put, was passed unanimously, the audience standing. 



COLOUR. 

 By Professor W. B. Morton, M.A. 



{Abstract) 



The subject of colour had been selected as lying in the 

 borderland between science and art, in the hope of interesting 

 the many members of the Society who were artistic in their 

 tastes. The discussion would be limited to the treatment of 

 colour as a sensation, and would leave untouched the purely 

 physical side of the question. The origin of all the colour in 

 nature was found in the composite nature of white light. In 

 illustration of this, experiments were shown with a spectrum 

 thrown on the screen. The colours of transparent bodies were 

 due to the fact that they absorbed some of the constituent rays 

 of white light, and allowed the rest to pass. Opaque coloured 

 bodies absorbed some rays, and scattered the rest back from their 

 surfaces. The colour shown by any surface must, therefore, 



