Biological Talkies

On Thursday evening, the 21st July, the Biological Society invites all students to attend a meeting at which five talkie-films will be presented, dealing with biological topics of general interest. "Reproduction" and "The Heart and Circulation of the Blood" are the titles of two of the films: Professor Julian Huxley will be heard discussing problems and processes of nutrition in a film of that name, and two other films dealing with developmental processes in plants will be shown. It is obvious [gap — reason: illegible]at the general interest of biology is increasing steadily, and the committee of the society are confident that the experiment of hiring these films will be fully justified by a good attendance of students.

At a recent meeting of the society, Mr. A. C. Gifford, F.R.A.S., lectured on life in the Universe." While many biologists tend to consider life us we know it on the earth an entirely unique phenomenon. Mr. Gifford, with the astronomical point of view, regards such a view as preposterous. The universe so far as we can explore it is seen everywhere to obey the same general laws as does our own little speck of space. About one star in a million is estimated to have planets circling about it and these may well be the homes of life such as we know it.

Mr. Gifford also regards the various cosmic systems, such as the spiral nebulae, as exhibiting all the phenomena of living organisms. These cosmic organisms, he says, live, grow, move, reproduce, and die just as do their terrestrial counterparts.

Don't forget Thursday. July 21st. 8 p.m.. in the Physics Lecture [unclear: Room]

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