PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2049, 17 September 1880, Page 3

PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE.

The fourth lecture of the series being delivered in connection with this irs'.i tute was given in the lecture theatre of tho Canterbury College last evening by Mr E. Dobson, C.E., Pre3ident, his subject being: " House and Home." The lecturer treated of the relations of domestic architecture in past ages to the social and political conditions and customs of the people and countries in which the different types had taken their rise, from the Pompeian down to the present day. An interesting point in the leoturo was Mr Dobsou's humorous comparison between tho type aud arrangement of hounec in England and Victoria respectively, showing how the style of building in the latter country, though retaining the main features of the English style, had become modified, owing to the peouliar conditions incidental to colonial life. The lecture was illustrated by numerous diagrams, and proved' most interesting, the audience giving close attention to it throughout. Mr Dobson, at the conclusion of his discourse, intimated that he would be pleasrd to give another lecture in connection with the above subject on a future date.