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MEETINGS. 



verse was repeated. Fraulein Anna Philipp, a really bril- 

 liant pianiste. played a " Rhapsodie " {Liszt) in splendid 

 style. An enthusiastic encore followed, and Fraulein Philipp 

 favoured with a second selection. Miss Agnes Willoughby 

 sang " Sognia-Reverie " (Schira), and Miss Ruth Edmonds 

 contributed a violin solo " Adagio-Canzonetta " (Godard), 

 playing with her customary ability. 



The first of the lecturers was Mr. E. D. Marquand. 

 A.L.S., who chose as his subject " Life in a Rockpool." 

 In the course of a lecture which occupied little more than 

 ten minutes, Mr. Marquand succeeded in conveying a striking 

 word picture of a typical half-tide rock pool. The lecture 

 throughout was brimful of interest, and was also instructive. 

 Mr. Marquand dealt specially with " animal plants " (sea 

 anemones), zoophytes, star-fish and sea-urchins. The lecture 

 was illustrated with lantern slides, specially striking pictures 

 being shown of transverse sections of the spines of the sea 

 urchin. 



Mr. A. Collenette, F.C.S., lectured on "Types of 

 Heavenly Bodies." This lecture, too, which was fully 

 illustrated, proved both interesting and instructive. The 

 lecturer briefly referred to the different types of " heavenly 

 bodies " — dark worlds seen only in the light of other heavenly 

 bodies, dark worlds intermediate, bodies giving out heat 

 but no light, bodies giving out both heat and light, dark 

 stars, the presence of which can only be ascertained 

 by the eclipsing of light stars, &c. Interesting details were 

 given concerning all these different types, and attention was 

 drawn to the different colours of the stars — white, red, blue, 

 green and yellow. Finally Mr. Collenette dealt with comets, 

 showing the different types. 



Mr. F. L. Tanner, F.Z.S., lectured on " Some Great 

 Extinct Reptiles." The speaker first showed a slide repre- 

 senting the four great ages, in which through the process 

 of evolution the living inhabitants of the world developed 

 from invertebrates to vertebrate amphibians, then to reptiles 

 of land, sea, and air, and finally to warm blooded mammalians. 

 Mr. Tanner dealt specially with the third great age — the 

 reptilian age. Fine illustrations of the wonderful reptiles 

 which lived on the earth in those days were shown, and 

 the peculiarities of development referred to. A touch of 

 humour was introduced by the showing of one of E. T. Reed's 

 famous Punch pictures, "Mixed bathing in prehistoric times." 



The soiree terminated with the National Anthem shortly 

 after 10 o'clock. 



