1 6 Gee, Daltoris Lectures and Lecture Illustrations. 



The Ledgers and Memorandum Books of Dalton 

 show that he continued his connection with the Medical 

 School for at least six sessions ; in the later periods he 

 had each session three separate classes attended by 

 8 or 9 students. 



In responding to the toast of " Dr. Dalton and that 

 excellent Institution, the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, of which he is the distinguished President," at 

 the Anniversary Dinner of the Pine Street School of 

 Medicine and Surgery, in 1833, Dalton made a short but 

 memorable speech in which he says : — 



" With regard to myself I shall only say, seeing so 

 many gentlemen present who are pursuing their studies, 

 that if I have succeeded better than many who surround 

 me, in their different walks of life, it has been chiefly, nay 

 I may say almost solely from unwearied assiduity. It is 

 not so much from any superior genius that one man 

 possesses over another, but more from attention to study 

 and perseverance in the objects before them, that some 

 men rise to a greater eminence than others." 



1825. 



In the Manchester Guardian for October 1st, 1825, 

 Dalton advertises that he intends to give a course of six 

 lectures on Meteorology. He prepared a new syllabus 

 and wrote out an introduction to the course. This is 

 reproduced below : — 



METEOROLOGY. 



Manchester, Sep. 22, 1825. 



Introduction : The Science of Meteorology is that 

 which treats of the various Phenomena of the Atmos- 

 phere ; as Winds, Clouds, Rain, Snow, Dew, &c. — and of 

 Meteors more strictly so called, as fiery Meteors ox falling 



