them have merited the recognition which their audiences have accorded
them. Perth is the happy hunting-ground of the public lecturer, and some
of the specialists engaged from over the sea delivered lectures no more
interesting than these. There was, as usual, a good attendance in the end
gallery last night, to listen to an address on “The Aborigines,” delivered
by Mr. W. H. Timperley, I.S.O., and illustrated by lantern slides. Dr. J.
W. Hackett, M.L.C., presided.

room, it is not large enough to meet the wants of the increased
attendance. Up to the present five lectures have been delivered, for,
unfortunately, Mr. Cooke was prevented by illness from giving his lecture
on August 7 on “Astronomy, Old and New,” and will not be able to give it
on the 11th inst. Mr. G. Pitt Morrison [sic], however, has kindly
consented to lecture on that evening on “Art in Australia.” He will be
followed by Mr. W. H. Timperley on the aborigines on the 18th, and the
course will be closed on the 25th by the director, Mr. Bernard H.
Woodward, who will give an account of the coral-building animals—animals
which have taken so large a share in the building of the crust of the
earth. Lectures are already promised for next year by Messrs. Cecil
Andrews, M. F. Cooke, A. Gibb Maitland, Dr. Kelsall, and others, the
director opening the fifth series by a lecture on sculpture.