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FREE LECTURES. 



The Seventeenth Winter Course of Free Lectures, forty in number, 

 was delivered in the Rotunda Lecture Hall, in January, February, and 

 March, 1882. 



Total number of persons who attended the Lectures 41,295 



Average per Lecture 1,032 



Against 14,815 in 1881. Average attendance, 370, 



List. 

 Our Municipal Institutions : their Past and Future ; by Sir J. A. 

 Picton, F.S.A. 



Animal Defences, vdth Illustrative Drawings; by Rev. H. H. 

 Higgins, M.A. 



Universities, Old and New ; by Mr. G. H. Rendall, M.A., Fellow 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, Principal of University College, 

 Liverpool. 



The Basque Provinces of Spain : their History, Institutions and 

 Laws; by Mr. Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S., Secretary 

 of the Royal Geographical Society. 



The Practical Application of some of Faraday's Discoveries, illus- 

 trated by experiments ; by Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, Professor of 

 Physics and Mathematics, University College, Liverpool. 



Elocution, Gesture, &c., illustrated by Recitals and Readings ; by 

 Mr. Henry Vandenhoflf. 



Sketches of the Public and Private Character of Edmund Burke ; 

 by Mr. J. MacCunn, M.A., Professor of Logic, Political Economy, 

 &c., University College, Liverpool. 



Our Ironclad Fleet and its Guns, illustrated by the Oxyhydrogen 

 light; by Captain E. Stubbs, R.N. 



Chemical Force, with experiments; by Mr. Edward Davies, F.C.S. 



John Howard, the Prison Philanthropist ; by Rev. J. Burbidge. 



On the History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal, their Persecu- 

 tion and Expulsion ; by Rev. W. Stern, Ph.D. 



Phosphorus and its Compounds, with experiments ; by Mr. Edward 

 Davies, F.C.S. 



New Zealand : its Scenery, People, and Prospects, illustrated by the 

 Oxyhydrogen light ; by Mr. W. Lant Carpenter, B.A., B.Sc. 



