PYTHAGORAS. 387 
THE GREAT MAP OF PALESTINE. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. J. SHELLY. 
(Read December 9th, 1880.) 
THE establishment of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Its first 
objects. Explorations in Jerusalem. The proposal of a Survey. 
The value of an accurate map. The defects and errors of existing 
maps. ‘The beginning of the work. The nature of the country. 
The method of the work ; its progress, difficulties, and dangers. 
The murderous attack on the party at Safed in 1875, and stoppage 
of the Survey. Its resumption, and the completion of the work. 
Results of the work. Present condition of Palestine. What has 
yet to be done. The lecture was illustrated by a copy of the great 
map of Western Palestine, mounted for exhibition, kindly lent by 
the Fund, and by former maps and diagrams. 
PYTHAGORAS. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY PROFESSOR CHAPMAN, M.A. 
(Read December 16th, 1880.) 
THE relation of the subject to modern life. Sources of information 
and their value. The outlines of his career. His visits to Egypt, 
Babylon, and Lacedaemon, and settlement at Crotona. His great 
personal influence, and formation of a brotherhood. Contributions 
to mathematical and astronomical science. The drift of the Pytha- 
gorean speculative philosophy. The meaning to be attached to the 
fundamental doctrine that “number is the principle of all things.” 
How far this harmonises with some modern speculations. The 
nature of the Pythagorean brotherhood. Its excellencies and 
defects, and the general truths it embodied. A general estimate of 
the efforts of Pythagoras in relation to knowledge and conduct. 
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