The quality of the man was well mirrored in those LITTLE 

 magnificent books all that he did was on the scale of JOURNEYS 

 grandeur. 



His books were too high in price for the average 

 reader but on the request of the King he consented to 

 give a course of five, free, popular lectures for the 

 people. 



No one foresaw the result of these addresses. 

 The course was so successful that it extended itsell 

 into sixty-one lectures, and covered a period of over 

 ten years' time. No admittance was charged, free tick- 

 ets being given out to applicants. Very soon after the 

 first lecture a traffic sprang up in these free tickets, car- 

 ried on by our Semitic friends, and the tickets soared 

 as high as three dollars each. Then the strong hand of 

 the Government stepped in the tickets were can- 

 celled, and the public was admitted to the lectures 

 without ceremony. Boxes, however, were set apart for 

 royalty and foreign visitors, some of whom came from 

 England, Belgium, Switzerland and France. The size 

 of these audiences was limited simply by the capacity 

 of the auditorium the attendance at first being about 

 a thousand ; later a larger hall was secured and the at- 

 tendance ran as high as four thousand persons at 

 each address. 



The subjects were as follows : 

 Three lectures on the History of Science. 

 Two on reasons why we should study Science. 

 Four on the Crust of the Earth, and the nature of Vol- 

 canoes and Earthquakes. 



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