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Photography as the Handmaid of Science. — During the 
last month the Royal Photographic Society have been holding 
their forty-eighth annual exhibition at the New Gallery. The 
many ways in which photography may assist in the study of 
Nature were admirably illustrated. Thirty-six prints by Mr. 
A. C. Banfield, illustrating the life-history of a splash, Sir 
Norman Lockyer’s celebrated spectra, Dr. Vaughan Cornish’s 
marvellous series of cloud and wave effects, and Messrs. Glew 
and Sanger Shepherd’s views of lightning flashes, represented 
physics and meteorology : Dr. George Abbott’s Magnesian 
Limestone concretions, and a beautiful photomicrograph of 
Nummulitic limestone by Mr. T. E. Freshwater, were of 
interest to the geologist : studies of single plants, by Mr. Henry 
Troth of Philadelphia, among which we specially noticed wild 
carrot, pansy, hare-bell and Kalmia ; chrysanthemums by Miss 
M. C. Eames, daffodils by Mr. L. A. Edmonds, a spray of 
roses entitled “A Broken Limb,” exhibited by the Autotype 
Co. ; and last but not least a representative series from Kew 
including views of Amovphophallus Titanum in flower, the three- 
mile trench of Victoria regia in British Guiana and a group of 
the remarkable fungus Clathrus cibarius in New Zealand, furnished 
an instructive treat for the botanist ; whilst Mr. Douglas 
English’s beautiful studies of British Muridce and Mr. W. M. 
Martin’s series of forty radiographs illustrating the development 
of the frog were equally interesting to the zoologist. Messrs. 
E. and H. Spitta’s set of microphotographs of test objects, and 
the many excellent series of lantern-slides exhibited by Messrs. 
Newton and Co., were of even greater practical interest to 
the teacher, whilst beautiful landscapes and architectural studies 
too numerous to specify came also within the scope of our 
Society. Mention must also be made of a view of Mont Blanc, 
taken at a distance of 70 kilometres with a Dallmeyer telephoto 
lens as an example of results unattainable by any other method. 
Vivisection. — A discussion, which promises to be of more 
than usual interest, will take place on November 12, at Essex 
Hall, Strand, W.C., when Mr. Edward Carpenter will give an 
address on “ Vivisection.” Those who have never heard Mr. 
Carpenter should not miss this opportunity of doing so, as he 
does not often lecture in London. Those who have heard him 
will be glad of another chance. The other speakers will include 
Mr. R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Mr. John M. Robertson, Mr. 
George Greenwood, Mr. Henry S. Salt, and Mr. Ernest Bell. 
The proceedings will commence at 8 p.m. Admission free. 
The Home Counties Nature-Study Exhibition. — Before 
this number is in our readers’ hands this Exhibition will have 
begun. It is to be opened by our President on the afternoon of 
October 30. We hope to give a full account of it in our next 
number, but we mention it here because it will be open on 
