| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8
Dec 1880 |
Mr
Cox |
Pompeii and Herculaneum
1400
tickets were issued.
Queen Street Hall was quite filled in every part.
|
| 9 Feb 1881 |
W
H Davies |
Nature under Two Aspects - the Photographic
and the Aesthetic
1400
tickets issued
|
| 9 Mar 1881 |
Andrew
Pringle |
Italy and Switzerland
1400
tickets issued: about 900 present
|
| 11 Jan 1882
|
W
J Chadwick |
A Tour in the Isle of Man
Transparencies
by Mr Chadwick of Manchester.
The majority coloured in a most delicate and careful manner
[About 800 were present]
|
| 8 Mar 1882 |
W
H Davies |
Two
Hours in the Highlands
and Islands of
Scotland
Messrs Valentine,
Dundee
|
| 24 Jan 1883 |
WT
Bashford |
EPS Members’
transparencies
A varied collection of 125 pictures were
exhibited by amateur and professional members of EPS.
Also, at the Meeting a number of songs sung by friends of Members
of the Society
|
| 21 Mar 1883 |
Rev
John A Ireland |
Shetland
and the Shetlanders
Lecture
by Rev John A Ireland of Whiburn.
The
illustrations consisted of about 30 views by Mr G W
Wilson "...
The lecturer was
listened to with marked attention, and was frequently applauded by a
keenly appreciative audience, as he, in most felicitous terms,
enlarged on the natural beauties of the island and on the social
characteristics and occupations of the inhabitants."
[TEPS:
Jan 1883]
|
| 23 Jan 1884 |
WT
Bashford |
EPS Members’
transparencies
About
150 transparencies from 15 contributors were exhibited. Messrs Turnbull & McKean manipulated the lantern |
| 19 Mar 1884 |
? |
Temples
and Palaces of Japan |
| 17 Apr 1884 |
Andrew
Pringle |
Round the World
with a Camera |
| 21 Jan 1885 |
WT
Bashford |
EPS Members’
transparencies
About
100 transparencies, including gelatino chloride transparencies by
James McGhie and Mr Briglemen
|
| 18 Mar 1885
or 16 Apr 1885 |
W
T Bashford |
Devonshire Illustrated
Also,
transparencies of a very interesting and miscellaneous character by
Messrs Henderson, Cobb and Cowan.
The
very large audience paid marked attention throughout a séance of
unusual length. |
| 27 Jan 1886 |
Andrew
Pringle |
The Life, Land and Lyrics of Robert
Burns
illustrated both musically and
pictorially.
900
present. Mr Pringle sang, in admirable voice and feeling, seven or
eight of Burns’ songs
|
| 2 Feb 1886 |
TG
Whaite |
EPS Members’ transparencies
with
musical entertainment
|
| 17 Mar 1886 |
GG
Mitchell |
Cornwall and the Land’s End.
Also a musical feature
with
songs from
Tennyson, and a selection of Scotch airs.
|
| 9 Feb 1887 |
Andrew
Pringle |
The Life of Sir Walter
Scott
with a
short Notice of James Hogg and songs from Mr Pringle
|
| 16 Mar 1887 |
GG
Mitchell |
EPS
Members’ transparencies
with
musical entertainment
|
| 25 Jan 1888 |
Rev
W Logan
of Lanark |
To
Norway and Back by the St
Sunniva
There
were several pauses in the scenes where songs and instrumental music
came in to illustrate and diversify the proceedings. |
| 16 Feb 1888 |
Hugh
Brebner |
EPS
Members’ transparencies
Nearly
200 transparencies were shown, including a remarkable couple of slides
of the late eclipse of the moon from negatives by Mr William Peck who
promises at a future meeting to exhibit a set of 12 views of the
progress of the eclipse. |
| 17 Jan 1889 |
David
McGibbon |
Scottish
Castles
Mr
David McGibbon FSA Scot. Delivered a lecture on Scottish castles,
illustrating his subject with a series of transparencies, kindly lent
for the occasion, free of all charge by Messrs G W Wilson & Son,
Aberdeen, and by slides made form Mr McGibbon’s own drawings
|
| 21 Feb 1889 |
? |
EPS Members’ transparencies |