ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 94, 6 September 1912, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

UNIQUE rrCTURKS. Residents of New Plymouth will tonight and to-morrow night have an opportunity of viewing a most unique and interesting series of pictures, illustrating Mr. Philip Hereford's famous lectures on the relationship hetween man and the ape. and. in fact, hetween man :md the whole of the animal kingdom. It is not everyone that knows that a human child passes through various stages in its growth, during'which it is exactly similar to the fish., the lizard, the dog av.A I 'ip monkey, before it becomes human being. The weird monsters of the par-d, some of them over a hundred tons in weight, are fully depicted, and all, Grange to sav. are distantly conu-Iled with the human race. I f is not everyone that knows I hat even loday m m are occasionally horn with tails. Then' and many other points of interest are all pictorially depicted. Mr. Hereford is a member of the American Academy of Society Science, and his lectures are second in interest onlv to his specially prepared illustrations. The lectures will be delivered in the Wliiteley Hall, beginning at 8 o'clock. To-nidit's lecture will deal with the age of the world, the mongers of the "past, the growth of life on the earth, the principles of heredity, and the special features which connect man with the ape. Man's simian relationship will be. thoroughly explained. Saturday night's lecture "will deal with embryology, a most interesting study, and with the distinctly animal organs to be found in man.