ri{()I'i:ss()l{ M.BKHT s. HICKMOHi: 2'X\ 



tlu" liumlilc Ix'uimiiuu' in ISSl the lecture courses rapidiv' i;re\v in iiiiixirtancc 

 luitil in tSS4 Statr aid was iiixcn to tliis feature of the Museum work, 

 greatly extendinj; its scope and value. In IS,S9 a small lecture hall was 

 pr(>\ided where the i)resent foyer is, and fijially ap|)ropriations were ob- 

 tained for the construction of the lower portion of the f^reat central tower 

 designed to he the doiniuant feature of the completed huilding. The new 

 section was d(>\()ted exclusively to an atiditorinm seating fourteen hundred 

 persons and was opened with a])propriate exercises, Octohi-r 'M), I'.IOO. In 

 the foiu' lecture seasons succeeding this date. Professor Hickinore addressed 

 many thousands of people here, hut in the spring of 1!)()4 ill healtii forced 

 him to retire from the platform and from actixc participation in the 

 ati'airs of the institution to which his energies had Keen imsparingly devoted 

 for more than thirt\'-six x'ears. 



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