46 The Life and Writings of 



a course of Lectures on the Natural & Moral History of Man 

 Kind. 



&quot;The Ladies and Gentlemen of L/exington are invited to attend.&quot; 

 (Kentucky Reporter, April 15, 1822.) 



The only mention of a lecture accompanied by a fee 

 for admission is found late in the year 1822, and, like 

 the last preceding, the address belonged to the realm 

 of metaphysics. The notice runs as following: 



&quot;LECTURES ON PRAENOLOGY.&quot; 



&quot;Professor Rafinesque will deliver a discourse by request on 

 Phraenology Craniology & the Analysis of the Human Mind, on 

 this evening at 7 o clock in the Medical Room. 



&quot;Admission Fifty Cents. Tickets to be had of Mr. McNitt, at 

 the lecture room & at Mr. De veins.&quot; (Kentucky Reporter, December 

 16, 1822.) 



Curiously enough there never occurs any reportorial 

 or editorial notices of any of these lectures; there is 

 absolutely no means of ascertaining any thing relative 

 to their reception by the townspeople. Nor, among the 

 frequent &quot; letters&quot; to the editor in either criticism or 

 praise of the various departments of the University, and 

 such letters were numerous, for these were stormy times 

 in University matters, have we found a single one which 

 mentions, to say nothing of being chiefly concerned 

 with, Rafinesque s work or the department of science 

 over which he presided. It would appear that he toiled 



