Tasmanian News (Hobart, Tas. : 1883 1911), Tuesday , page 2
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Tasmanian News (Hobart, Tas. : 1883 - 1911), Tuesday 12 July 1898, page 2
B » l« l Society. ;
satisfaction, blitentirely
to the
satisfaotion
to
of those who listened him. The the
T&x monthly meeting nf Boytl views were excellent.
l t They embraced in the
held u evening
Bocipty, was Aft: scenes on Nile, desert and out tbe in tbe
Gallery. The chair v%as coonpied By
.fl. of desert, tomb and outside of the ia the
M rO G rant tomb, and outside
the in the tbe
. mosques
NEW FELLOWS. the
mosques. His descriptionof papyrus
The iollowingiiewfelloWa Wereeleeted tracing
of ancient kings, the the
Messrs. Maloolm Harrison and W« A, writiDg, tbe the
and descriptionof various monuments,
Keraode. etc., was most entertaining
AN tllVEKEBXXIFG FiTlB. conclusion of lecture a hearty tbe the
A very interesting paper was read by
vote of thanks
to the
was tendered .
Mr A. Morion,prepared by Messrs.W readers
of papers. .F.Petterd,
end W
H.Twelylreei, F.G.8,,
mulloscafound near George Town. The
piper was accompanied with aome very
illnattations.
beautiful Mr E. M. the tbe
Johnston asid that paper was of
the
highest degree of itsporianoe and
the
should be encouraged by Royal
Society, The Messrs.Twelvtreesand in tbe
Petterdhad hot ooly Worked
directionof mnlluioabnt had gone folly
into
ninsrslology, Theirworkwas highly
to the
valuable Booiety,
to
whole thanks
these
was due genllemen'i inrestiga
lions.
to the
M r Thomas Belf-Eleetrioian
very valuable paper on tolgraphj without
the first time
wires. Thiswas on record
of telegtransmitters—one
in tb ii
Tasmania that system
raphy efficiently
had been brought
the two
efore public. There
in the
were
lecture room
in the
and one second art gallery. The
tbe two th
rooms
door connecting wsi at,
bnt thf> wave uf cleBlrifeity was ttiffifli*
tb
ently strong send a metisfe* from
one
to
room another, a distance of over 80
the
feet
being bridged by current. M r
Self gave a thorough technics!
detorip*
to
tion
o? electricity up date, and made
interesting
his paper all by a
the
i ;
ries
of experiments.
Hon, 0. IL Grantsaid that telegraphy
withoutwireswas ao up-to-date science.
It
oould be sent over considerable distances,
across rivers and lakes.
The
scienceof eleelririty waa programing with
to
leaps
bounds, end they
and had get a
deal of information on this subject. He
telegraphy
believed, withoutwireshad
been carried a distance of some four
miles.
M r A. J. that
Tayler explained
which produced certain effects.
EXCAVATIONSXN EGYPT.
Ber.B. Pollock,
the
F.R.G.B.,gave one of
most instructive and interesting lectures
on ancient and modern Hgypt that tbe tbe
has been heard within wallsof
Museum building for years. Mr Pollock
travelled through
baa Egypt, and aa he
travelled flome
he kept his eyes open,
people who travel do not keep their eyes
open. Peopleof this elass might as well
to tbe
for light
be sent Oatlands, all and
and If
up-lo date science. Mr Pollock
had not kept his eyes open he wouldhave
been mentally incapacitated from
onlightening
and instructing a crowded
audience as be did last evening. Cc
oourse, a good deal of what he did say
a matterof history, but there waa a tery
great deal told'bp' him which was new
in to
and told a fresh
manner which was
a Hobartaudience. He did not burden
his remarks withthat superfluous matter
lectures like
whioh envelopes some a
fiealh
shroud. He started from the
scratch,
about 7000 years on bauka of ago,
the
Sues Oaual,and having shown few a
denes aloog conrse of the
cans), bad tbe
in in
his audience Cairo a brace of shakes.
the
Rapidly running through
various
in
spots of interest Oeiro,he soon con- to
I
veyed those he was trying entertain
the
under Sphinx (the oldest known
in the the
mountain world)and beneath is
pyramids. He very riohin descriptive
r
;
power, M Pollock has a pleasing to tbe
resonant
voice which rang out
the
remotest corner of room.
. fte
Of course, to
difficultyWSI for him com
. it to
however, did perhaps not his
; to the
satisfaction, blitentirely satisfaotion
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