MISS PROCTOR'S LECTURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1770, 7 June 1913, Page 14

MISS PROCTOR'S LECTURE.

Miss Mary Proctor, . whose efforts to secure tho establishment of a solar physics observatory in New Zealand, havo been bo conspicuously successful, is to deliver a lecture at Wellington College to-night in order to raise funds for the college observatory, llecontly the college purchased a really fine telescope, but certain appliances or attachments have still to be obtained in order that the best; use may bo made of it. Miss Proctor is giving the Whole proceeds of this lecture to the college for the purchaso of a photographic attachment for the telescope, by which photographs of the sun and of the other lights in tho heavens may be taken. The subject of the lecture will be' "Other Worlds Than Ours," illustrated with lantern slides prepared from actual recorded observations. In tho course of the -lecture, Miss Proctor will speak, of some of the lights in our southern sines, as she has seen them through the college telescope. A portrait of Mr. S. Cauthron, tho donor of the'solar observatory to be founded at Nelson, will be shown, and a picture will also be shown of one of tho probable sites for the observatory at NelB °A reception will be tendered U> Miss ' Proctor by the Mayor and Mayoress on Monday, at which addresses will bo delivered by' Mr. C. E. Adams (Government Astronomer), Dr. Hcctor, and Professor Laby. Miss Proctor will also speak about the Cauthron solar observatory.