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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LOCAL LECTURES AND 

 EXAMINATIONS. 



A Course of twelve lectures on English Prose Literature, from Hooker 

 to Addison (1600-1720), has heen delivered by the Rev. Alfred Caldecott, 

 B.A, Camb., M.A. Lond., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



To these 650 tickets for the course have been issued. 



Four experimental lectures on the " Chemical Elements of the Present 

 Day, or the Materials of which the Earth is Composed," were delivered 

 in the Small Concert-Room, St. George's Hall, by Dr. J. Campbell 

 Brown, in continuation of his course last year on the same subject. 



The admission to these was by tickets without charge. The at- 

 tendance was very good. 



Two lectures on Natural History subjects (" Spider Life" and '' Jelly 

 Fishes") were delivered in the same Room, by the Rev. J. G. Wood, 

 M.A., F.L.S. 



Three lectures on the " Curiosities of Criticism, 1800-1825," were 

 .delivered in the Lecture Hall, Free Library, during the month of 

 November, by Mr. T. H. Hall Caine. 



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

 years, and the following Courses of Lectures are being delivered in connec- 

 tion -with the Department of Science and Art, South Kensington : — 



Solid Geometry. By Mr. A. J. Briant. 

 Machine Construction. Do. 



Building Construction. Do. 



Agriculture. By Mr. C. F. Cooper. 



Shorthand. By Mr. R. F. Finlay, in connection with the Society 

 of Arts, London. 



Examinations conducted under the management of the Universities of 

 Oxford and Cambridge, and of the Civil 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, the 

 Student's Geological Society, and the Lancashire and 'Cheshire Ento- 

 mological Society. 



