Winter 1913-14

A collection of members programme cards of the Doncaster Scientific Society are contained within the archives.

These consist of a small card, which is folded into three sections, printed on both sides. The six panels thus created are used for displaying 1. details of the society, 2. and 3. the rules of the society, and on the reverse of the card, 4. the programme,  5. and 6. a list of officials of the society for the year to which the card refers, and a list of all past Presidents of the society from its foundation in 1880.

Found within Minute Book 6 (page 29) is a just one panel showing the Winter Programme for 1913-14.

Winter Programme 1913-14

1913
Wed., Oct. 8 – Presidential Address – “The Dead and Undying Past” by A. Crow
Wed., Oct. 22* – “The lost towns of East Yorkshire” by T. Sheppard, F.G.S., F.S.A. Scot.
Wed., Nov. 5 – “The Old Horse Shoe” by A. E. Benny.
Wed., Nov. 19* – The Life-history of some Sea Fishes” by Prof. W. Garstang, M.A.
Wed., Dec. 3 – “Science and the Criminal” by S. Baker.
1914
Wed., Jan. 14 – “Children’s Eyes” by C. L. Corbett, M.B.
Thur., Jan. 29 – Conversazione
Wed., Feb. 11 – “A peep into the New Stone Age” by A. Jordan.
Wed., Feb. 25 – “The Ecology of Thorne Moore” by Rev. E. A. Woodruffe Peacock, F.L.S., etc.
Wed., Mar 11 – Short Essays.
Wed., Mar 25 – “Forest Laws” by H. O. Brown, L.L.B.
Wed., April 8* – “A Naturalist in Nyassaland” by Prof. R. Newstead, D. Sc.
Wed., April 22 – Annual General Meeting
Note * = Illustrated by Lantern Views