Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . al Institutionis its main channel of distribution. It haslaboratories of research which Davy, Faracla_\-,and others ha\-e immortalised, but its popular. A LECTURE AT THE KOVAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. scn:x rii-ic V7 lectures form t)nc of its chief are deUvered in the winter sessions b}-specialists of repute, and range over thewhole intellectual domain. Science, how-ever, is the chief attraction, and the I<ricla\-Evening Discourses, as well as tiie Christmasor Easter
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . al Institutionis its main channel of distribution. It haslaboratories of research which Davy, Faracla_\-,and others ha\-e immortalised, but its popular. A LECTURE AT THE KOVAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. scn:x rii-ic V7 lectures form t)nc of its chief are deUvered in the winter sessions b}-specialists of repute, and range over thewhole intellectual domain. Science, how-ever, is the chief attraction, and the I<ricla\-Evening Discourses, as well as tiie Christmasor Easter Lectures to Juveniles, are thesalient features. Our illustration on page 272shows a well-known professor initiating theyoung mind into the secret of ripples,whether in water, air, or ether, and leadingit up from the circles made by a stone fallingin a pond to the signals flashed b_\- anelectric spark from Cornwall to children, mostl}- bo\-s, sit wondering andexpectant, ever read) to clap their handswith delight over some brilliant or two, perhaps embr_\o philosophers,are more staid than the rest. They areaccompanied b} a sprinkling of their elders,including learned greybeards, who enjoy thelecture quite as muc
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