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AT the conversazione of the Royal Society on Wednesday evening last week, the Fellows, we are sure, were all glad to see their President back again, in renewed health, after his long absence. Prof. Huxley had to welcomefa very large number of guests, and some of the objects exhibited were of much interest. Prof. H. N. Moseley exhibited a collection of Pueblo Indian pottery, charms, prayer-sticks, &c., from Zuni, New Mexico; Gen. Strachey, an instrument for drawing curves of sines adapted to graphical representation of the harmonic components of periodical phenomena; Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer lent some beautiful flowering specimens of Himalayan rhododendrons (the small, rosy-pink R. glaucum and the large, velvety-white R. nuttalli), a fruiting branch of coffee, and the various vessels and implements used in the collection and preparation of Para india rubber; iridio-platinum weights, with a density of 21.5660, absolutely adjusted, and a piece of platinum wire 00075 of an inch, prepared by drawing, &c., were exhibited by Mr. G. Matthey; the Linnean Society lent a remarkable set of drawings from the collection of Lady Impey, at Calcutta, painted by a native of Patna towards the end of the last century, and still in perfect preservation; the Anthropological Institute contributed ethnographic photographs of various races; and there were many highly interesting philosophical instruments shown.
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Notes . Nature 32, 34–37 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032034a0
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