Free Lectures

Abstract

I OBSERVED in NATURE for February 19 (p. 367) a reference to the free lectures at Liverpool, and the inquiry, Why cannot the same thing be done in other large towns? It may interest your readers to learn that a series of free lectures has been given during the past two winters by the professors of this College. Tickets for these lectures are distributed through the agency of a committee composed partly of employers, and the attendance at each lecture numbers between 600 and 700. The audience consists wholly of persons in receipt of weekly wages, the services of the lecturers are given gratuitously, and no charge whatever is made for admission. The small expenses of printing and issuing programmes and tickets are defrayed by the Committee. I inclose the syllabus of this, the second year's course, now drawing to a conclusion.