[The following is an extract taken from the Minute Book 1886-1894, dated 21 March 1888]

The Rev. A.C.E. Blowfield then gave a lecture on “Astronomy” illustrated by a series of very beautiful slides exhibited my means of the Oxy-Hydrogen Lantern.

The attention of the audience was specially drawn to the Milky Way, the constitution of the Solar System, the discovery of Neptune, Saturn & its Rings, The Theory of the Lidis, Comets & their Orbits, The Solar Spots & Corona, Lunar Eclipses, etc. etc. These were all illustrated by Pictures projected on the screen, motion being imparted to some of them by mechanical arrangements of a very effective character, which much helped to make the subject more intelligible.

Amongst other illustrations a Photograph of the moon in her first quarter & an ideal Lunar Landscape were much admired.