SCENERY AND GEOLOGY.
,-' AN INTERESTING LECTURE. Scenery, ia its relationship to geology, lias a deeper significance to tho scientist than to the average sightseer, ■ hut, tho significance is not too technical in its terms to bo beyolid the casual attention of the tourist, who, viewing <i sublimo landscape, a bold ; and rugscd headland, or some awe-inspiring convulsion ot Nature, such 1 as is to bo seen in; tho neighbourhood of present ot pristine volcanic activity, in tho light of their connection with tho strivings of stupendous elements, may add considerably to tho plensuro of his. wanderings. This suggestion was very interestingly enlarged upon by Professor I!. W. Skeats, D.Sc., A.R.C.S., F.G.S., of Melbourne University, last evening,'during' the course of a lecturo on tho subject of, "The Relation Between Geology and Scenery," delivered in the. Concert Chamber, Town Hall, before a fair attendance of the public. Tho lecturo was given under tho auspices of tho Wellington City Council, being the first'of tho season's series of . publio library lectures. The Rov. D. C. Bates (Government Meteorologist) presided, and introduced the lecturer. '
Professor Skcats prefaced his address with a reference to tho confusion of ideas which existed in. less enlightened time 9 on tho subject of. scenery, and to tho general tendency among a certain class of peoplo' to attribute to supernatural influences somo unusual contortion of Nature, for example. Science, however, had a porfoctly reasonable nnd sound explanation of these' things,, as would bo shown. Tho lights were then extinguished and tho lecturer, with tho assistance of a great variety of lantern slides, mainly descriptive of representative features in Australian and English . scenery, with which he. was personally familiar, discussed, in an easy conversational manner, some of tho remnrkablo effects of geological influences upon tho fnco of Nature. The address was listened to with cIo?o attention, and nt the conclusion Professor Skcats was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. ,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1047, 9 February 1911, Page 6
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