6 Gee, Da/ton's Lectures and Lecture Illustrations. 



branches of science, it may be presumed that public 

 encouragement will not be wanting to a person qualified 

 to exhibit and illustrate the truths of experimental 

 philosophy upon a liberal and extensive scale. 



Notwithstanding this, it would be imprudent for one 

 of limited resources to purchase a large and expensive 

 apparatus adequate to the object, upon a mere pre- 

 sumption. Something like a certainty of remuneration 

 in a degree may fairly be expected. 



With this view I propose, if a competent number of 

 subscribers at two guineas each be procured, to extend 

 the apparatus already in my possession so as to give a 

 course of twenty lectures on the various branches of 

 experimental philosophy, in the ensuing spring. Having 

 for many years been engaged in the cultivation of the 

 sciences of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and 

 having lately delivered a course of lectures similar to the 

 one proposed, in the Royal Institution at London, I may 

 perhaps have some claim upon public confidence. 



Each subscription ticket will admit a gentleman and 

 a lady, or two ladies. The lectures will be delivered 

 twice, if the number of subscribers exceed sixty, in order 

 to their greater accommodation. 



Those who wish to favour the undertaking will oblige 

 me by putting down their names as early as may be on 

 papers left for the purpose at Messrs. Clarkes' or Messrs. 

 Thomson & Son's, booksellers, 



Falkner Street, Jan. 2nd, 1805. 



Russell, Printer, Manchester. 4 



4 The last section of Vol. ii. of Dalton's Manuscript Notes is made up 

 of some spare copies of the above Prospectus. (See Roscoe l\: Harden, p. 66). 

 The spelling of Falkner Street was subsequently changed to Faulkner 

 Street. In 1805 Dalton went to live with the Rev. William Johns, at 

 10, George Street, where he remained until 1830. He then took a house 

 at 27, Falkner Street. This he occupied until his death in 1844. The 

 house was then taken by H. P. Ree and Co. (see Manchester Directories). 



