A SCIENTIFIC EVENING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 3

A SCIENTIFIC EVENING.

AT VICTORIA COLLEGE-

■' Entertainment ; andinstruction were happily combined in: the .science 1 depart ment. 'of, •.Victoria:'.; College .last|niglit.; ' The doors were, thrown open-to .all. who I wished, to A see a . repetition;: of .tEeijjx-.. periments whict wer<3; shown to 'a com-. pany%jo':ci'pwdedif6r ilejsureljj.observa-' ing of the physics laboratory;'by ; his Excellency,. Lord Islington/The.visitors last evening took rhiich interest in -the .wireless telegraph" apparatus, : .th-j; ultra; :>the mercury; lamp and its .spectrum, the : apparatus for ;companng .different .illuminators,.■;; the", hannoriograph; the' stationary, waves in. a cotton: thread, the'Teala coil, : and mother.-ex-hibits; ■...'; ;A chain: was:: bjpwled. like;; a hoop,' an arc: light - was caused- ; to'., give out musical., notes; and'.:'; were vmade,'" visible. -.j./Professbrj/.T.'.,. H. Laby gave :a short- lecture,, with experiments,' on' X-rtys;;;radiumfe an&:higli-. frequency 1 , discharge .•)> •;': ;, >7 ;; : ''.:• "- .; ■;:-, '■], ' la. tie : bk>kgical tbrsi'were, shown, how sections':of animal tissues are cut 'and stained for. micro : ; scbpic "work, and what' stages-the chick: embryo - : and' "other:, organism's ..'pass through in.their, early ; .microscopic: objects,; some'; of: them' living; were 'shown'on a means : 6f-the.micro7proiectori and.explarEed by.. Professor Kirk.../■:■;.;';•' ''■■/ ...Specimens •'•'.'of ■; another, kind were shownv : in ;.' the .geological .laboratory,, where: students \rere'at;, work.. : . In the'.chemical' laboratory,' the.freezihg'of waters by "means'- of [ ai.-rptary..air-pump, the. preparation ..of coal-tan. colours;.: spectroscopic analysis, .the' freezing of. quicksilver,, and 'several other experrments: were;shown;;; :; ;; ; ; ; - ; . •'.?. V,