The Portland daily press., 1872-02-12

MICROSCOPIC LECTURES BY REV E. c. BoLLEs
OF SALEM.-Our citizens will be sure to at
tend in large numbers the interesting course of
five lectures on the Microscope and What il
Shows u.s." by Rev. E. C. Bolles, at Fluent S
Hall, on Wednesday evenings, commencing
Feb. 18th
We have had number of excellent lectures
this winter, but we can confidently say that this
scientific course by our former townsman, Mr.
Boles, will be far superior to the ordinary eff
forts of the lecture room. tits unnecessary for
us to speak of the rare talents and eloquence of
the lecturer, for we all know him to be thor
ough student of natural history and the nstruc-
ton to be obtained from his efforts cannot but
be most valuable and complete. In the lecture
field Mr.. Bolles has achieved splendid sue
cess, and he holds his audiences spel-bound
far beyond the time of usual lecturers
In speaking of one of his lectures, promi-
nent newspaper says; ''For an amount of
scientific information, pleasantly and elegantly
conveyed, both by speech and illustration, we
do not know when we have heard the equal of
this lecture. We think people have small prov
ocation for being ignorant of science or plead
lectures as this may be had"
In the course to be delivered here ON Wednes-
day evenings, at Fluent's Hall, the subjects
will be of very great interest. The illustrations
will be given in the most striking and elaborate
manner by the calcium and electric lights Mi
eroscopical preparations photographs, dia-
grams and living objects will be exhibited high
ly magnified, upon the screen. Among the il
Illustrations are full series of 166 of Dr. Mad
dox's photographs of microscopic objects and a
large number of microscopic drawings and
paintings made especially for these lectures
The lectures will be as follows: LIST, Theory and
forms of the microscope, with illustrations of
some of the earliest discoveries made by it; I'd,
The Microscope, its use in the study of morgan
ic substances; Sd, The microscope and vegeta-
BILE structure; 4th, The microscope and animal
life; 9th, The polariscope and the spectoscope
as applied to the microscope.
We wish that every intelligent man, woman
and child could hear these lectures. They would
find that they would be well repaid, and with
wonder recognize with still greater reverence
the greatness and omnipotence of the Almighty
source of creation, power and life.
PORTLAND FRATERNITY.-This Association,
which has been gaining public favor so rapidly
of late, has now entered on it's second year of
usefulness with renowned vigor and prosperity;
the encouragement promised by the public is
such that efforts will be made the coming year
to enlarge and extend its facilities for affordng
intellectual and amusing entertainments for
the patronage of its friends, and to this end the
association have secured '1ive'' committee on
entertainments, which is now actively engaged
in perfecting the necessary arrangements for a
series of Saturday evening entertainments to
consist of Readings, Quartette singing, grand
Dramatic Entertainments, a Lecture, several
entertainments by the various musical organi-
cations of our city, as well as by some of the
church parishes; thus uniting the various talent
of our city in furnishing variety of the high
order of amusements at nominal admission
fee, for the promotion of a broad and universal
charity in our midst.