The Newtown bee., 1895-01-11

LECTURER.
 The lecture of William Hamilton Gib- son is now a matter of history, and cer. tain 1t is that no audience has ever poured out of the doors at the old Town hall in SO pleased frame of mind as was the case on Wednesday night. The audience was a representative one, and also in- cluded many of the prominent people of the neighboring towns.
 It was shortly after o'clock when MT Gibson stepped forward to address his audience. He explained his tardiness, saying the baggage man in New York had kindly caused him to miss the 3 o'clock train, 80 he did not arrive at Newtown till 712 Mir Gibson had the sympathy of his audience with him from the start. The directness with which he handled his subject was pleasing. He went at it in business-like way. He explained how the subject had grown upon him, and how in order to present the subject in one lecture he was obliged to condense, and as the newspaper men would say, boil" his material down into small compass. The lecturer caused smile to pass over the audience when he said that he had come to the conclusion as result of his observation that botan- com munity.
 The beautl tlful charts he exhibited, with their Ingenious mechanism, won the ad- miration of every beholder. He stated on the threshold of his lecture that his subject was not to treat flowers in his lecture of the evening as botanical spec- imens, but to show the relation between the insect and flower. He referred to the then wonderful discoveries of the early botanists. He qnoted sentence from Sprengle, which be said was an excellent motto for anyone to take with them as they went into the field, "The wise Au- thor of Nature would not create even hair h vain.n
 It has not been given, said the lectur- CT, to any one man to discover the whole truth. Discoveries have been made by three noted men, each as it were stand ing on the shoulders of the other. MT Gibson might have added, fourth di coverer had arisen, but he modestly made no reference to the many valuable discoveries he has made himself in the world of botany. The lecturer referred to Darwin as the discoverer of the won derful theory of cross-fertiliZ ttion. He created considerable amusement by showing an illustrated chart of pigeons. He called attention to the beautiful wild pigeon, and then showed "man's pig eons,' as he called them, oddities pro- duced by breeding. He declared that mans Improvements are at disadvan- tage in nature.
 He illustrated the wonderful theory of the cross-fertilzation by insects, and ex. plained the great value of the humble bee. MT Gibson made happy state- ment in referring to botanical works. ''I wonder" said he, 'sif the time wi,l ever 'come when a man may read botanical work without understanding Latin" He then said he was at work on such book In which he proposed to tell in English the people could understand of the won sders and mysteries of the floral kingdom This statement was received with great applause.
 it was past 10 o'clock when Mir Gibson had concluded his lecture, but the ear nestness and enthusiasm of his style, to- gether with the simple and attractive way In which he opened up his subject, kept the interest up to the very close. Quite q number of Newtown and Sandy Hook people called at Dicks hotel at the close od ubc lecture, and met MT Gibson Iinfonnally.