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ON Wednesday of last week, May 9, there was a large assembly at the Royal Society on the occasion of the first of the two conversaziones held annually in the society's rooms at Burlington House. The guests were received by the president, Lord Rayleigh, and included, not only leading men of science, but also representatives of other branches of intellectual activity and national interests. There were numerous exhibits of objects and apparatus illustrating recent scientific work, and the following notes will give an indication of their character. Descriptions relating to exhibits belonging to the same departments of science have so far as possible been brought together. During the evening lantern demonstrations were given by Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., on the Batoka gorge of the Zambezi river, and by Prof. S. P. Thompson, F.R.S., on the electric production of nitrates from the atmosphere. For an account of the Batoka gorge reference should be made to a paper by Mr. Lamplugh in NATURE of November 30, 1905 (vol. lxxiii., p. III); and the subject of Prof. Thompson's lecture will be found dealt with in NATURE of February 8, 1906 (vol. lxxiii., p. 355), and p. 65 of the present number. In several other cases descriptions of instruments and other objects exhibited have already appeared in the columns of NATURE, and references are given to them in the sub-joined summary of the official catalogue.
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The Royal Society Conversazione . Nature 74, 59–61 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074059a0
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