The Tyneside Sunday Lecture Society (report)
This article was published in The Evening Chronicle (Newcastle) on 16 october 1893.
Report of the lecture Rain, Rivers, and the Sea, a Geological Story where Arthur Conan Doyle was a lecturer (see Ad).
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The Tyneside Sunday Lecture Society.— The Tyne Theatre was crowded last night, when the winter session of the Tyneside Sunday Lecture Society was inaugurated. Dr. R. Spence Watson presided, and Dr. Andrew Wilson delivered a lecture on the action of rain, rivers, and sea in altering the formation of the surface of the earth. A large number of beautiful lime-light views were shown, illustrative of the alterations that have been effected in the appearance of the world, many of the views being extremely picturesque and interesting. Dr. Wilson pointed out that the destruction which is going on is but construction in another form, and mentioned that the British Islands are but broken off bits of the continent of Europe, and that the Falls of Niagara have in 35,000 years eaten their way back 35,000 feet. The history of the world was from the present molten condition of the sun to a burnt-out cinder like the moon.
