RADIUM AND IMMORTALITY.
LKCTTRI-: BY ...... Q. L. WRAGGE
'Radium and Immortality" formed the j-übifrt of an interesting lecture given l,v Mr. .lament 1.. Wraggo in St. James's Hall last evening. The lecturer describe,! the wonder* and history of radium from ihe first researches of M. Becquerel and Madame Curie to the present dav Re opened his address by showing views of the heavens and then dealt with the atoms and electrons of the infinitely small He expressed the opinion that, everything that lived, from germs to man. was n di„. aeli-e emanation from the Infinite Dynamo or God: that death did not end all and was simply like the change of water into steam, a change from one rate of vibration to a higher vibrating note Muring the evening several tine specimens of radium were exhibited.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17256, 4 September 1919, Page 8
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