Abstract
ON May 20, at the University Museum, Oxford, the Junior Scientific Club held a successful and largely-attended conversazione to celebrate the jubilee of its foundation. The Club was inaugurated in 1882 with the object of bringing together undergraduate and bachelor of arts members of the University for the discussion of scientific matters. The holding of con versaziones has always been an important part of the Club's activities, and special interest was attached to last Saturday's gathering in view of the fact that the Club has just passed the fiftieth year of its useful existence. Numerous demonstrations and exhibitions of scientific objects had been arranged by the Club, supplemented by some assistance from others. Among the features that excited most interest were a demonstration by Prof. J. G. Gray of the properties of gyroscopes, experiments with liquid air, phenomena of polarised light, series of insects, chiefly butterflies, illustrating the theory of mimicry and the phenomenon of seasonal change, and an exhibit of the results of a zoological survey of Bagley Wood. The Main Court, including the Pitt Rivers Museum of Archæology and Ethnology, was open throughout the evening; and a water-colour drawing by Bernard Gotch of the entrance to the Old Ashmolean, together with objects from the historic scientific collections there preserved were also on view. The guests of the Club were received by the president, Mr. D. H. P. Peel, of Merton College.
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