Doncaster Microscopical Society

By an announcement which has already appeared, it will be seen that a course of six lectures are to be given during the ensuing year, under the auspices of the Doncaster Microscopical Society, and through the means afforded by the Gilchrist Educational Trust.

Dr Gilchrist was a native of Edinburgh, but eventually proceeded to India, and on his return, was in the habit of giving lectures in or near London to gentlemen proceeding to India. After various vicissitudes of fortune, Dr. Gilchrist, towards the close of his life, directed by a codicil to his will, that the trustee or trustees of his will should, at Mrs. Gilchrist’s death, appropriate the principal fund in such manner as they should in their absolute, and uncontrolled discretion think proper and expedient for the benefit advancement and propagation of education and literature in every part of the world as far as circumstances would permit. After considerable litigation, the fund derived from the Gilchrist estates were given over to the trustees appointed to carry out his educational object.

It is in connection with this trust that the various lectures in Doncaster will be given. The subjects include “The evolution of the solar system,” “An hour with the modern microscope,” ”The Dynamo machine, and its uses in electric lighting and in the transmission of power,” “The voyage of the Challenger,” “Energies within the earth; mountain making,” and “Energies within the earth; volcanoes and their causes.” All the lectures are well known in the scientific world.

[Doncaster Gazette, 29 December 1882]