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THIS Section, as is unfortunately the custom, was housed in an ecclesiastical edifice in which no provision had been made for the exhibition of apparatus or lantern slides by the readers of papers. No doubt, it is impossible always to provide accommodation equal to that furnished two years ago at New-castle, when the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Durham College of Science, with its appliances, was placed at the disposal of the Section. Still, it should be possible to provide lantern and screen, and provision should be made, when necessary, for partially darkening the room. If there were a guarantee that lantern slides could always be exhibited, many readers of papers would avail themselves of the opportunity to illustrate their communications much more adequately than is possible at present, when the only appliances are a piece of chalk and a diminutive blackboard; e.g. on Monday morning the beautiful photographs of Mr. Clayden and Dr. Copeland had to be passed round from hand to hand instead of being exhibited in a manner which would have done justice to their merits. The contents of many of the papers, too, would be much more easily and pleasantly grasped if such a course were adopted.
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Physics at the British Association. Nature 44, 453–455 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044453b0
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