CLEMENT L WRAGGE.

Lake County Press, Issue 2300, 25 November 1909, Page 4

CLEMENT L WRAGGE.

Mr Clem nt L. Wragge, the eminen astronomer, meteorologist, professor, and author, who will give at the Atheneum Hall, Arrowtown, on .Saturday evening next his most interesting subject " A Voyage Through the Universe," has been the recipient of unstinted praise in every country visited. A contemporary speaks 01' biui thus:—On Tuesiay evening, Mr (/lenient L. Wragge, F. \'<Ar. S., pave one of hi; grand entortainmcnts on trie toLf system. Th-i series of niii-jtiiJiceiit slides that lie manipulated were tun li.ie.-t and ber-t procurable, and the audience so thoroughly appreciated hi-: lecture that you scarcely heard anything but the leetuicrs voice. Ho has a flatly la>d voice, wbicn ha used with wnat one might term musical c-mpimiis, and inhances hj s descriptive pcweis, wnic'i are of no mean character. Hd .started on the " voyage," as no termed it, into the illimitible realms o.' s. ac. The splendid negatives of photographs tiKeu of the ■• heavens," with lho agency of gigantic telescope:, an J the " sensitive piate," conveyed to his audience soma idei of the ne->uiprel - ensil)le hogencsj of the universal schema in which our little solar system figures as an infinitesimal group of mere atoms, unnoticeable amongst me countless myriads of suns and planetary systems, in which the surrounding immeasurable spaca is filled. Picture af:er picture of marvellous beauty, showing portions of tue vast space beyond our eaitu, spaikling witli y.t countless myriads of Other spheres followed, and a very enjoyable and iuttructive evening was spent by all. Popular pries are advertise! and inttss for ilus district will be found in our a l.utijiug column.. !