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CAMBKIDGE UNIVERSITY LOCAL LECTURES AND 

 EXAMINATIONS. 



A course of fourteen lectures on Political Economy, has been 

 delivered by the Rev. W. Moore Ede, M.A., of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge. 



To these 480 tickets for the course have been issued. 



These lectures were delivered in the Lecture Ilooni of the Library. 



Four experimental lectures, by Professor Roscoe, F.R.S., on the 

 "Four so-called Elements of the Ancients," were delivered in the 

 Concert Room, St. George's Hall, in the month of October, to crowded 

 audiences. 



Admission to these lectures was by ticket free of charge. Dr. Roscoe 

 having kindly given his services entirely gratuitously. 



In the month of November Dr. J. Campbell Brown delivered four 

 experimental lectures, in the Concert Room, on the "Chemical Elements 

 as now understood, or the Materials of which the Earth is Composed." 



The admission to these was by ticket without charge. The attendance 

 was very good. 



Dr. Campbell Brown also placed his services at the disposal of the 

 Committee gratuitously. 



The Liverpool School of Science has had the use of rooms as in former 

 years, and the following courses of lectures are being delivered i j connec- 

 tion with the Department of Science and Art, South Kensington. 



Practical Plane and Solid Geometry. By Mr. J. A. Briant. 



Machine Construction. Do. 



Building Construction. Do. 



General Biology. By Mr. G. W. Slatter. 



Animal Physiology. Do. 



Elementary Botany. Do. 



Examinations conducted under the management of the Universities of 

 Oxford and Cambridge and of the Ci-sdl Service Commissioners have 

 taken place as in former years. 



The following societies have also had the use of rooms : — The 

 Amateur Photographic Society, the Liverpool Numismatic Society, and 

 the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



