Word: stereopticon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favorable places for the operations of theives and foot-pads. The police, besides the ordinary duties of their office, were obliged to act as fire men. The frequency of disasterous fires in Rome is too well known to need comment. Mr. Lanciani closed his lecture as usual with appropriate stereopticon views...
...seized audience was in attendance and the lecturer held their attendance throughout with a description of the ancient and modern life of the Campagna, the Roman villas and the modern dwellings which rest on the ruins of ancient grandeur. The lecture closed as usual with an interesting series of stereopticon views illustrating the preceeding text...
PROFESSOR LANCIANI'S LECTURES.A course of eleven lectures on Roman Archaeology was begun by Professor Rodolfo Lanciani, L.L.D., of Rome, on Wednesday, November 17, in Sanders Theatre. The lectures are attractively illustrated with stereopticon views. The subjects of the remaining lectures are as follows...
...lecture was much more copiously illustrated by the stereopticon than any of the previous ones and fascinated the audience...
...deliver his lecture on the fertilization of flowers. Prof. Trelease had a thorough control of his subject and held the attention of the audience for an hour and a half; he spoke in a clear voice, and was ably aided by Mr. Huntington who kindly volunteered to manage the stereopticon which Prof. Cook generously lent for the occasion. Although the lecture was a thoroughly scientific one, it was not at all too abstruse to be be followed by the novices in the audience...