After the lecture the audience was allowed to scrutinise several exhibits which were examples of the rock structure of Guernsey. Mr. Le Tocq's lecture was followed with a short speech by Mr. Ping about the total eclipse of the moon due on Monday, 7th November. Mr. Ping also showed three slides of an earlier eclipse. We regret to say that the audience was deplorably small for such an interesting lecture. On Saturday, 3rd December, Mr. D. K. Crews gave a lecture entitled " Mysteries of the Ocean." He gave us a detailed description of everything that is known about the depths of the seas. He accompanied his lecture with a number of pictures of the types of fish seen by the two men who descended in the " Bathyscophere " several years ago. These pictures were projected, using the epidiascope. Some of the fish were extremely wonderful, for they had luminous patches all over them and carried long tentacles with luminous bulbs at their ends. They use these to attract smaller fish to them. As there is no vegetation at these great depths the fish have to live on one another. We heartily thank Mr. Crews for an extremely interesting lecture. Owing to the number of evenings taken up by the Saturday and Debating Societies, there have only been three meetings of the Scientific Society this term.
THE SATURDAY SOCIETY. Saturday, 1st October. The School was entertained by Mr. Wingate Kirk, who gave an exhibition of conjuring and ventriloquism. He had for a helper a very life-like doll in a page's uniform. In one of his more interesting acts, he described the creations of a butler by means of a coloured folded paper pattern. This butler was a very ingenious man, as whenever his master asked for anything, he used to produce it at a moment's notice. With a few deft movements of his fingers, Mr. Wingate Kirk conjured up these articles as they were mentioned from his pad of coloured paper. It was altogether quite an entertaining performance. Saturday, 15th October. Mr. Ernest Sewell came to entertain the School. Some of the senior boys will remember the excellent performance he gave them last year. 20
