3.--Dr. Thomson, medical superintendent of the Norfolk County Asylum,
delivered a lecture before the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical
Society on "The New Photography," and gave a practical demonstration of
the Rontgen rays.
10.--Died at Cincinnati, while travelling in the United States as a
member of Sir Henry Irving's company, Mr. Henry Howe. Born in Norwich on
March 31st, 1812, he was the son of a Quaker gentleman named Hutchinson,
and was educated at the Ackworth School of the Society of Friends in
Lancashire, where, for a time, he had John Bright as a fellow scholar.
At the age of 19 he absconded from home and joined a strolling company.
Mr. Howe made his first appearance in London at the Victoria Theatre in
October, 1834, and afterwards became a member of the Covent Garden
company under Macready. In 1881 he joined the Lyceum company and
remained with them uninterruptedly until the time of his death.