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THERE was a record attendance at the fifth public exhibition and soiree arranged by the Associated Learned Societies of Liverpool and District at the Liverpool Technical College on October 26. The exhibition was opened by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, and the Mayor of Bootle attended; they were received and shown round the exhibition twenty-six rooms arranged by twenty-three societies comprising more than two thousand members by the president, Dr. H. J. W. Hetherington; chairman, W. Mansbridge; deputy-chairman, W. S. Laverock, and the secretary, Miss E. Warhurst. Lectures included: “Race, Place and Nationality in Europe” by Prof. P. M. Roxby; “Value of Milk in Nutrition” by Prof. H. J. Channon; “Spiders and their Silk” by S. T. Burfield; and “Recent Work on Vitamins and Hormones” by Dr. R. A. Morton. The Society of Chemical Industry showed films of crystal growth by H. Emmett, and citrous fumigation with cyanides. The bird room arranged by Eric Hardy included a working scale model of a proposed bird observatory or ringing-station for migration study in the area, the first photographs taken of the grey phalarope in Great Britain by members of the Ornithological Section of the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club and a working model of a ship's oil separator as the solution to the waste oil menace to sea-birds. Dr. C. T. Green of the Liverpool Botanical Society exhibited an extensive series of hand-coloured photographic prints of British orchids, similar to his noted collection recently accepted by the British Museum. Diagrams and photographs from Bidston Observatory were shown by the Liverpool Astronomical Society, and short talks were given on meteorology and astronomy. Dr. W. B. Wright, district geologist of H.M. Geological Survey, showed his results of spore analysis of coals at the Liverpool Geological Society's room. There were also demonstrations and exhibits by the leading scientific firms and the Liverpool Corporation Electric Department.
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Science Exhibition at Liverpool. Nature 136, 712 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136712a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136712a0