MR SEVERNE’S LECTURE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 269, 19 August 1872, Page 3

MR SEVERNE’S LECTURE.

On Saturday evening Mr H A. Severne delivered the fourth of a series of his experimental lectures at the Academy of Music. Mr Lawlor, J.P.. occupied the chair, and there was a tolerably good attendance, although the house was by no means filled to overflowing. Mr Severne gave a most interesting and instructive lecture on oxygen, hydrogen, and carbonic acid gases, and illustrated his subject by experiments on combustion of metals, illumination, explosion, and foul air in mines, &c., in a very lucid manner. He was frequently applauded and listened to throughout with marked attention. At the close of the lecture Mr Severne made a suggestion which we should like to see carried out, viz., that some practical miner should give a lecture, the proceeds to be devoted to the same purpose to which the fuuds arising from MrSeverne’s scientific lectures are devoted, viz , the formation of a museum in connection with the Thames Mechanics’ Institute. Amongst the large body of miners here there must be several capable of giving a most interesting dissertation on mining matters, the result of actual personal experience, and Mr Severne has expressed his willingness to assist by making models, conducting experiments, or in any other way assisting the object in view. We hope the suggestion Mr Severne has thrown oat will

be adopted, and that some practical miner will come to the front and give us ft lecture, illustrated by models aud experiments by Mr Severne. This would be a combination of the theoretical and practical, which c mid hardly fail to draw a large audience.