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Volume 103 • 2009 Contents THE LEICESTER LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS OF THE LEICESTER LITERARY Founded in 1835 www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL VOLUME 103 2009 President: Mr R. Gill, MA Life Vice-Presidents Dr T.D. Ford, OBE, PhD, BSc, FGS Mrs H.A.E. Lewis, JP, MA Vice Presidents Mrs A. Dean, B.A. Mr B.D. Beeson Dr M.G.F. Crowe, MA, MB, BChir, FRCGP Professor D.P.S. Sandhu, MD, FRCS (Ed Urol), FRCS (Eng & Glas) Hon. Secretary: Dr M. Hamill MB, BCh BAO, FRCPCH 91 Kingsway Rd, Leicester. LE5 5TU Hon. Treasurer: Mr M. Kirk, OBE, FCA, Elms Cottage, 46 Shirley Road, Leicester LE2 3LJ Hon. Membership Secretaries: Mr B.D. Beeson and Mrs J. Beeson BSc The Hollies, Main St, Frolesworth, Leics LE17 3LL Hon. Programme Secretaries: Dr D.G. Lewis, MA, MD, FRCA and Mrs H.A.E. Lewis JP, MA, 3 Shirley Road, Leicester, LE2 3LL Hon. Transactions Editor: Dr D.G. Lewis, MA, MD, FRCA 3 Shirley Road, Leicester, LE2 3LL Website Editor: Professor M.A. Khan, BSc, PhD, FRAS, FRSA [email protected] Members of Council S.A. Ashraf, MA Professor P.J. Boylan BSc, PhD, FGS, FMA, FBIM, FRSA Mr J.H. Dickinson B Sc CEng, FIMMM, FGS Professor J.C. Fothergill, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, BSc Eng, CPhys, FIEE M Inst P FIEE Mrs A. Fuchs 'Steel Fire Dog. Image © Leicester Museums and Galleries' Mr P. Hammersley, CBE, CEng, BSc Eng, MIMechE Mr L. Lloyd-Smith, JP, DipArch, FRIBA Mrs F. Smithson Professor M. Stannard, BA, MA, DPhil, FEA, FRLS Mr M. Taylor, BA, DipTP, MA, MRTPI, IHBC The Not Altogether Elementary Case of The Role of the Media in Promoting Dr D. Thurston, BSc, PhD. Sherlock Holmes Community Cohesion Canon M. Wilson MA MBA The Vice Chancellor of the University of Leicester Wife or Muse: Philip Larkin’s Love Triangle Glimpses of Life at 142 Strand in the 1850s The Vice Chancellor of De Montfort University* *represented by Professor Heidi Macpherson, PhD, FRSA, FHEA New Light on Lewis Carroll Whatever became of the Industrial Revolution? One representative of the Geology Section Ernest Gimson: Archetypal Arts and Crafts Designer Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise One representative of the Natural History Section The Future of the Universe Growth of a Mountain Belt: Looking at the Alps Geology Section Hon. Secretary: Ms Fiona Barnaby, Cuckoo Cottage, 22 Church Lane, Dingley, Market Harborough. LE16 8PG Phenomenal Fluids Super – Eruptions of an unusual Style Natural History Section Hon. Secretary: Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs Annual Reports Mrs S. Walton, 29 School Lane, Huncote, Leicester, LE9 3BD. Independent Examiners: Mr K. Smithson, FCIB, MIMgt, FRSA Mr P.E.K. Fuchs, M.A TRANSACTIONS OF THE LEICESTER LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. VOLUME 103 • 2009 CONTENTS THE NOT ALTOGETHER ELEMENTARY CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Presidential Address by Mr Richard Gill ..............................................................................2 WIFE OR MUSE: PHILIP LARKIN'S LOVE TRIANGLE Professor James Booth .........................................................................................................5 THEATRICALS IN A QUIET LIFE: NEW LIGHT ON LEWIS CARROLL Professor Richard Foulkes,...................................................................................................8 ERNEST GIMSON: ARCHETYPAL ARTS AND CRAFTS DESIGNER Mrs Mary Greensted............................................................................................................9 THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE Professor Jack Meadows ....................................................................................................11 PHENOMENAL FLUIDS Professor Martyn Poliakoff .................................................................................................14 GRAVE SECRETS OF DINOSAURS Dr Philip Manning.............................................................................................................16 THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN PROMOTING COMMUNITY COHESION THE LEICESTER MERCURY MEDIA LECTURE Nick Carter, .......................................................................................................................17 GLIMPSES OF LIFE AT 142 STRAND IN THE 1850S Professor Rosemary Ashton................................................................................................20 WHATEVER BECAME OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION? Sir Neil Cossons OBE ........................................................................................................23 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE AND THE BIRDS OF PARADISE: A TALK BY SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Summary by Jan Dawson ..................................................................................................26 SUPER – ERUPTIONS OF AN UNUSUAL STYLE FROM THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT TRACK Ben Ellis ............................................................................................................................28 ANNUAL REPORTS...........................................................................................................29 Cover picture: 'Steel Fire Dog. Image © Leicester Museums and Galleries' (cf Ernest Gimson, p9) Colour versions of the illustrations in this volume are in the on-line versions of these Transactions <www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk> © Copyright 2009 The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society, c/o Leicester Museum, New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7EA ISSN 0141 3511 Transactions of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society. THE NOT ALTOGETHER ELEMENTARY CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Presidential Address by Mr Richard Gill Delivered on 6th October 2008 In 'elementary' matters we are dealing with single, simple entities of which the nature is transparent. Many of the matters that puzzled Watson (and readers) were 'elementary' to Sherlock Holmes. Yet the figure who found the world of human (and particularly criminal) doings 'elementary' is not in himself or his context 'elementary'. Conan Doyle created a character with many facets and the fictional world in which he placed him has many aspects. The figures of popular fiction do not usually have many reasoning from premises to conclusions. Although Conan characteristics. Count Dracula, whose creator, Bram Doyle was probably unaware of it, the logic of deduction, Stoker, was known to Conan Doyle, is one of the undead and of science as a deductive form of thinking, was who sucks the blood of the living and is vulnerable to vigorously argued for in the Vienna of the 1920s by Karl daylight. Everything else about him is derived from that. Popper. Science, he argued, always starts with a theory. But Sherlock Holmes, although a character of popular Only in the light of a theory can anything observed be fiction, is richly and solidly specified. evidence. Evidence is always evidence of something. Theories are called into question when what is observed His appearance is distinctive: he was lean and tall - over is incompatible with the predictions of theory. If the six foot - had black hair, a narrow face, grey eyes, thin theories no longer make sense of observations, then a lips and heavy brows. In dress he was prim, adopting a new theory is needed. frock coat in public (the deerstalker and cape were the creations of Sydney Paget, an early illustrator). Privately, In the Sherlock Holmes stories, the common his dressing gowns - one blue, one mouse, one purple - presupposition we all have about how the world normally gave him a more Bohemian air. He was a prodigious works is equivalent to the theories of science. When smoker (he kept his tobacco in a Persian slipper), and, something happens that is no longer compatible with the yes, the talk about drugs is true: The Sign of Four begins theory, then a new explanation is required. As eminent with him taking "a seven-per-cent" solution of cocaine. professors do not normally climb up the ivy on the front Holmes was also a writer. Before Watson meets him, he of their houses ('The Adventure of the Creeping Man'), a had published Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of new explanation (a new theory) is required. the Various Tobaccos, and in his retirement he wrote the Practical Handbook of Bee Culture. His monograph on When faced with a breach in the normal workings of the the polyphonic motets of de Lassus was said to be the last world, Holmes reviews all the salient details and comes word on the subject! And Holmes has a social context. up with a theory. In 'The Adventure of the Sussex His family were country squires, and he had attended Vampire' he says that he formed his theory as to what has university, though only for two years. happened before he left Baker Street. At any 'scene of crime', his investigations are guided by his theory. In Yet Holmes, like other heroes of popular fiction, does 'Silver Blaze' he says he found a half-burned match have one defining characteristic: his acute powers of because he was looking for it. reasoning. Popper insisted that the best a scientist can hope for is to Conan Doyle knew what he was saying when he stressed secure a theory against refutation. As he remarked, the that Holmes was a deductive thinker. Deduction is sighting of a single black swan falsifies the statement that 2 Volume 103 • 2009 Transactions of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society. all swans are white. Similarly, one piece of evidence can which are "light-houses…Beacons of the future!" ('The destroy the theory with which Holmes is working. Thus, Naval Treaty') (In politics Holmes was something of a when in 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band' he Liberal.) Other distinctly London features include the discovers that a window has not
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