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gave to an overflowing audience a series of demonstrations 
illustrating savage methods of procuring fire, and Mr. Henry 
Balfour, M.A.. discoursed on bows and arrows, and described a 
series of specimens illustrating the Lapland Whale Fishery. 
The Radcliffe Library (West Gallery) was open during the 
evening, by kind permission of the Librarian, Sir Henry 
Acland, K.C.B., D.M..F.R.S. ; as also was the Court of the 
Clarendon Laboratory, by kind permission of Professor R. B. 
Clifton, F.R.S., where he, assisted by Mr. Walter R. Clifton, 
exhibited acoustical apparatus in the Lecture Room of the 
Laboratory. The Hope Collection of Insects (South Gallery), 
unrivalled in certain departments, was, by kind permission of 
Professor J. 0. Westwood, M.A., exhibited and explained by 
himself, the Rev. J. W. B. Bell, M.A., and Mr. Arthur 
Sidgwick, M.A. In the Central Court of the Museum, the 
Rev. F. J. Smith, M.A., showed some recent forms of 
apparatus employed in physical research ; by kind permission 
of Professor W. H. Jackson, M.A., Mr. O. H. Latter, B.A., 
exhibited microscopical preparations and living specimens of 
various animals, and Mr. P. C. Mitchell, B.A., showed the 
working of microtomes and the methods employed in the 
preparation of microscopical sections. Mr. G. C. Druce, 
M.A., displayed a collection of the grasses of Oxfordshire, 
and Mr. J. B. Farmer, B.A., described and illustrated a 
method by which Algae, &c., may be grown upon a micro¬ 
scopic slide, and also showed some botanical specimens. The 
anthropometric apparatus of Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., was 
also exhibited ; while in a side room the Rev. J. G. Burch, 
M.A., showed his interesting perspective microscope. In the 
South Corridor, Mr. W. W. Fisher, M.A., showed some 
brilliant fusion experiments with oxygen, and Mr. Y. H. 
Veley, M.A., also showed chemical experiments. In the Geo¬ 
logical Lecture Room in the South Corridor, Mr. M. S. 
Pembrey, B.A., performed some physiological experiments. 
In the Lecture Rooms in the South Gallery, Sir John 
Conroy, M.A., showed some experiments on fluorescence, and 
Mr. D. H. Nagel, M.A., experiments with sensitive flames. 
In the Large Lecture Theatre (North Gallery), Mr. H. M. J. 
Underhill exhibited, with the oxy-hydrogen lantern, coloured 
slides of his own preparation representing the microscopic 
organisms from the ponds and rivers near Oxford, and others 
illustrating a Japanese legend of some evolutionary interest, 
the beauty of the slides being much appreciated. The 
Conversazione did not close till nearly midnight. 
