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Lectures, 1929-30.
The following lectures were delivered under the auspices of
the Public Libraries Committee during the winter session (October
to March), 1929-30.
(i) Adult lectures were given at the South London Art Gallery on Tuesday evenings, as follows:—
1929. Lecturer. Subject.
October 15th and 16th "Musical Hour." By the Pupils of the Peckham Central School. Conducted by Councillor H. W.
Shalders.
October 22nd Miss Lane "Scenes from British Parliaments." (Slides.)
October 29th Miss J. Iris Howard. (Acting Agent General for
Nova Scotia " Nova Scotia." (Slides.)
November 5th Mr. Paul Edmonds " Burma and the Burmese." (Slides.)
November 12th Mr. W. Mark Webb, F.L.S., F.R.M.S " The Naturalist Lends a Hand." (Slides.)
November 19th Rev. H. Allen Job " Land of the Moa and the Maori." (Slides.)
November 26th Commander the Hon. Sereld Hay "Life on a South African Orange Farm." (Slides.)
December 3rd Mr. William Marriott "Our Empire brought to Mind." (Slides.)
December 10th Mr. Basil C. Allen, C.S.I., I.C.S. "India." (Slides.)
December 17th Captain L. Greenstreet "A Chat about British Columbia—the Garden of
Canada." (Slides.)
1930.
January 7th Mr. S. J. Milton "At the Sign of the Sun that never Sets." (Slides.)
January 14th Miss Low "My Journey across Canada." (Slides.)
January 21st Councillor S. H. F. Pulley, F.R.G.S "Tunisia and the Holy City of Kairwan." (Slides.)
January 28th Mr. P. Drew Ingall "Call of Nyasaland." (Slides.)
February 4th Mr. Montagu A. Phillips, F.L.S., F.R.G.S. "British Wild Life off the Beaten Tracks." (Slides.)
February 11th Prof. J. R. Ainsworth Davis, M.A., F.Z.S. "Casting Life in New Moulds." (Slides.)
February 18th Mr. J. St. Leger B. Vignoles "The New Ireland." (Slides.)
February 25th Mr. A. Watson Bain "Picturesque Scotland." (Slides.)
March 4th Prof. J. R. Ainsworth Davis, M.A., F.Z.S. "Cooking through the Ages." (Slides.)
March 11th Miss C. Frances Browne, F.R.G.S "Life in Mediaeval England." (Slides.)
The average attendance at each lecture was 300.