The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (June 1903)

FO Fae ES. ens" . eee. 92 THE OPTICAL magic LANTERN JOURNAL the lower animals, may have sufficient power, although invisible to the naked eye, to produce a@ picture on a photographic plate, properly sensitised and exposed in a pitch-dark room. Lecture on Pompeii at Tewkesbury.—A large company gathered at the Congregational Sunday School on Thursday evening, May 14th, to hear a lecture by the Rev. W. Davies, on Pompeii, the ruins of which city he visited in the course of his recent tour on the continent. The lecture was illustrated by a number of lantern slides, well designed to elucidate the speaker's remarks, and projected from a lantern manipu lated by Mr. G. 5. Railton. Southampton Camera Club opened their summer programme on Monday, May 11th, with a demonstration by Mr. Field on the “ Cristoid Films.” The chair was occupied by Mr. G. Vivian, who conveyed the hearty thanks of the club to Mr. Field for his very lucid and interesting discourse. Arrangements were made for the first ramble of the season, the destination being Winchester Cathedral. Order of Court restraining the Defendants from passing off goods not of Kodak manufacture under the names ‘Kodak,’ ‘ Bull’s-Hye,” “ Brownie,” or the letters “P.K.,"° “F.P.K.,” “BE.,” ete. ; In the High Court of Justice. 1902 K No. 459. Chancery Division. | Wednesday, 4th March, 1903. Mr. Justice Swinfen Kady. Between Kodak, Limited, Plaintiffs, and the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, Limited, Defendants; and between Kodak, Limited, Plaintiffs, and George Houghton & Son, Defendants. “TxHIs CouRT DOTH ORDER and adjudge that the Defendants their Servants and Agents be restrained from infringing any of the following Trade Marks of the Plaintiff Company, ‘ Kodak,’ ‘ Brownie,’ ‘ Bull’s-Eye.’ And it is Ordered that the said Defendants their Servants and Agents be also restrained from passing off Photographic films which are not the goods of the Plaintiff Company as and for such Goods by the use of any of the said names or any of the combinations of letters ‘P.K.’ ‘F.P.K.’ ‘C.K.’ or ‘B.E.’ and from advertising selling or offering for sale any Photographic films which are not the goods of the Plaintiff Company under the descriptions of any of the said names or combinations of letters. And it is Ordered that said Defendants pay to the Plaintiffs, Kodak Ltd., their Costs of this Action to be taxed by the Taxing Master.” Bury Popular Lecture Society. — The annual meeting of the members of the Bury Popular Lecture Society was held on Monday, May 11th, in the Magistrates’ Room at the Town Hall, Bury, the Rev. Dean Walshe presiding. The Secretary read the annual report, which stated that during the season six lectures were delivered as follows: October 6th, ‘The Great Siberian Railroad” (with lime-light illustrations), by Mr. Montefiore Price, F.R.G.S. November 27th, ‘“ Volcanoes, (with special reference to the recent eruptions in the West Indies’’ (with lime: light illustrations), by Prof. E. J. Garwood, M.A. December 16th, ‘‘The Romance of our Old Buildings” with limelight illustrations), by the Rev. Walter Marshall, M.A. January 18th, “Three Centuries of English Song (with vocal illustrations), by Madame Bertha Moore. February 10th, “The Romance of Plant Life” (with limelight illustrations), by Prof. W. B. Bottomley, M.A., F.L.S. March 10th, Tennyson’s “Gareth and Lynette,” by the Rev. A. B. Boyd-Carpenter, M.A. The average attendance at each lecture was 767. ‘*Gothic Architecture.” -An interesting lecture on Architecture, illustrated by lantern slides which included views of the finest English cathedrals, was given at the Poole Hill School of Art, Bournemouth, on: Monday evening by the Headmaster, Mr. G. Penton Fisher, A.R.C.A. The lantern was worked by Mr. J. C. Bayley. Mr. Fisher not only gave an account of architecture in England, but briefly sketched its origin and gradual development and also made comparison with the architecture or other countries at similar periods. Captain W. J. P. Benson, of the Royal Geographical Society, delivered his popular lecture on ‘‘Jamaica—the Isle of Springs,’’ at Salter’s Hill Baptist Church on Thursday, May 14th. He took them in imagination from Bristol to Kingston by the Imperial Direct West Indian Mail Servicé on board their fine steamer the “Port Antonio.” From Kingston to: Mandeville and Montego Bay, thence right along the north coast to Port Antonio,. and once more round the island to the chief town, Kingston. Tours were also taken by road and river to Spanish Town and the Bog Walk. The lecture was illustrated by over 100 splendid slides made from the Captain’s own photographs, many of them having been specially coloured by American artists. Sir John Aird, M.P., and Egypt.—There was an influential and representative assembly