The following Courses of Lectures were also 

 delivered : — 



Five Readings from Shakspere, by Mr. Charles Kemble. 



Three Lectures " On the Recent Expedition to Bokhara,** by the 

 Rev. Dr. Wolff. 



Five Lectures ** On the Application of Steam Power and the Atmos- 

 pheric Principle to Railways/* by Mr. Addams. 



Two Lectures " On Italian Literature," by Signor Bompiani. 



One Lecture "On the Overland Route to India,*' by Lieutenant 

 Waghorn. 



The anticipations held out in the last Report with 

 respect to Courses of Lectures have been more than 

 realised. The Course of Readings from Shakspere, 

 by Mr. Charles Kemble, was delivered under circum- 

 stances somewhat unprecedented in the annals of the 

 Society, and, therefore, requires particular notice. Mr. 

 Kemble's terms were so much higher than have usually 

 been paid by the Society, that considerable doubt was 

 at first entertained on the subject of his engagement; 

 but so great an interest was displayed by many influ- 

 ential Members of the Society, who liberally attached 

 their names to a guarantee fund, that the Council 

 decided to engage him.* It was also found necessary 

 to engage the saloon of the Music Hall, the Lecture 

 Hall of the Society being quite inadequate to accom- 



* The following are the gentlemen who contributed to this fund :— J. R. 

 W. Atkinson, Esq., C. Beckett, Esq, Wm. Beckett, Esq. M.P., P. Fairbaim, 

 Esq., J. Gott, Esq., W. Gott, Eiq., H. C. Marshall, Esq., and D. Lupton, Esq. 



