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characteristics and composition of each, accompanied 
by lantern slides. After the lantern slides, students 
made test-tube chemical experiments, demonstrating the 
chemical nature of these deposits, the Professor in the 
meantime explaining the students' efforts. 
This was followed by a short historical sketch 
of the deposits and a rap at Dr. Vaughan about the 
Jurassic, the presence of which was- dwelt upon at 
some length and demonstrated by a display of two 
large enticular nodules at least a foot in diameter, 
having quite a number of small ammonites embodied in 
them. 
The lecture was followed by a summary of the year f s 
work by the presiding officer, 
who is Professor of History, and who delivered himself 
of a very creditable lecture. Heuita was both too dif- 
fuse and too general in his remarks, he at tern it ed the 
impossible in the short space of an hour and a half. 
Any short phase of his discourse might well have con- 
sumed that amount of time. 
I had a seat next to the Chairman on the plat- 
form. The arrangements of the hall fittings being 
rather interesting, were something like this# the 
speaker walking back and forth, as indicated by the 
sinuous line. 
After the lecture we walked down the road from the 
University to the Botanical Gardens, where all Havana 
was assembled to see the Horce, Cattle, Dog, Pig, etc., 
Show - a regular country fair. 
I have never seen a more picturesque crowd or more 
beautiful women - really beautiful - in any place than 
here. They vied with the beautiful flowers - yea, 
eclipsed them completely. 
