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of about 50 years is remarkable, and consists chiefly of the very poor 

 and decrepit, and crowded into a small area. Lantern slides 

 showed many interesting features of the Holy City, the beautiful 

 Mosque of Omar on the site of the Temple of Solomon, the Mosque 

 El Akon, said to be an archaeological puzzle, the Church of the 

 Holy Sepulchre, a tomb hewn in a rock in a garden, known as 

 "Gordon's Golgotha," a subject of various traditions, views of the 

 Garden of Gethsemane and of the Dead Sea were also shown, a 

 bouse at Bethany believed to be that of Martha and Mary, and at 

 Bethlehem the actual cave in which the Infant Christ was born, 

 over which the Christian church is built, a silver cross on the floor 

 showing the exact spot. 



Mediaeval Costumes as illus- 

 trated by the Monuments in 

 Wimborne Minister. 



On 29th April, a lecture was given 

 on Mediaeval Costumes by Miss 

 Ida M. Roper, f.l.s., of Bristol, 

 which is fully reported on page 69. 



... ~. On 6th May, a remarkably interesting and 



Micro=Cinema= , ,. J \ . c , T . J ~. , n , 

 t . instructive exhibition of Micro-Cinematography 



was given by arrangement with Messrs. Pathe 

 Freres (of London and Paris) before a very large audience. 

 This was the first time on which this wonderful development 

 of modern scientific research had been shown in Bournemouth. 

 The images of living and moving microbes as seen under 

 high microscopic power were shown moving with great activity. 

 About 4,000 feet of film were used. Among the films shown 

 were (1) Human blood, the corpuscles, etc., in active movement 

 in the circulation ; (2) Trypanosoma, or the disease pro- 

 ducing " Sleeping Sickness," its microbes shown in vigorous 

 movement in the blood of a patient ; (3) The microbes of relapsing 

 fever, as living and growing in the body ; (4) Examination of the 

 human stomach under X Rays, showing the movements by which 

 digestion is carried on ; (5) Life history of the Carrot Caterpillar, 

 from the larva to the perfect butterfly, shown coloured and in 

 movement ; (6) Birds in their nests, their movements and habits as 

 photographed. Regarding the cinematograph as applied to 

 microbes and other such objects the methods used are (1) By 

 transmitted light, as in ordinary microscopic work ; or (2) by 

 reflecting the light on the object placed on black paper, from the 

 side while looking through the microscope, the latter mode being 

 used in micro-cinematographic work, and is a valuable means of 

 affording scientific instruction. An explanation of each film was 

 given by G. G. Hamilton, Esq., m.b., f.r.cs. eng. A former pupil 

 of his at the Liverpool University, Mr. Dutton, was the first to 

 discover trypanosoma in human blood (though it was left to Sir 

 David Bruce to associate it with "Sleeping Sickness ") and while 

 further investigating relapsing fever he lost his life from that disease 

 at the early age of 24. 



