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On the 12th Feb., a lecture with this title was 

 The Hardy given by H. Pouncy, Esq., the Asst. Secretary of 

 Country, or the t h e Dorset Field Club, the chair being taken by 

 Witchery of j # j£ # Liddiard, Esq., f.r.g.s. The public were 

 Wessex. admitted to this lecture on the purchase of tickets. 



The lecture was illustrated by lantern slides of great interest and 

 exceptional beauty, and Mr. Pouncy introduced his subject by 

 showing some typical views of the Wessex of romance and portraits 

 of Wessex celebrities, proceeding to describe and illustrate a regular 

 tour through the near part of the country made so familiar to us by 

 Mr. Hardy in his novels. Leaving Sandbourne (Bournemouth), 

 the audience was conducted to Poole Harbour and up the Frome, 

 by Anglebury (Wareham) to Wellbridge (Wool), over Egdon 

 Heath to Kingsbere (Bere Regis) and on through Weatherbury 

 (Puddletown) to Mr. Hardy's birthplace at Upper Mellstock 

 (Higher Bockhampton), The ground covered corresponded to a 

 considerable extent with the route taken during the previous 

 summer on one of the Society's excursions, when Mr. Pouncy and 

 Mr. C. J. Hankinson, j.p. (Give Holland) acted as guides. The 

 lecture was varied from time to time by the quotation of passages 

 in dialect from Mr. Hardy's novels and by the singing of Wessex 

 songs. 



This lecture was given by Claude Lyon, Esq., on 

 Temples and the 26th February, the chair being taken by Dr. 

 Life in A. W. Thomas. The lecturer began by referring 



South India. ± 0 the extraordinary success of British rule in 

 India and described the facility with which the journey to India 

 could now be made, but pointed out that few travellers go to Madras 

 and the South of India, and that for that reason he had chosen that 

 district as the subject of his lecture. A number of very fine lantern 

 slides were shown, mostly from photographs taken by the lecturer's 

 father, and the greater part of them illustrated some of the wonderful 

 monuments of Hindu architecture to be found in Southern India, 

 mostly dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. The principal 

 buildings illustrated and described were : — The Temple of Rames- 

 waram on an island in the Manaai Strait ; the Temple at Tinnevelly, 

 a typical Hindu temple ; the Juggernaut car at Srivillipatar ; the 

 Temple of Siva and Minakshi at Madura ; the great gopura of the 

 Temple of Siva at Tanjore ; the little Temple of Subrahmanga at 

 Tanjore, with exquisite carving ; the small Temple of Siva at 

 Perur. Throughout the lecture Mr. Lyon gave descriptions of 

 Hindu mythology and of other religions in the East generally. 



A lecture upon this subject was given on the 12th 

 The Chemical March by Hubert Painter, Esq., B.Sc, f.cs., 

 Analysis of jy r ^ vyy\ Thomas being in the chair. The lecture 

 Solutions. throughout was illustrated by means of experi- 



ments, the solutions being placed in glass cells in the lantern, and in 

 the projection on the screen could be traced the various changes in 

 colour, consistency, etc., which took place. Mr. Painter began by 

 enumerating the different known kinds of solutions, viz., gases in 



