Excerpt from Bulletin of the Essex Institute, 1897, Vol. 29 The Lecture courses have been well sustained and well attended. Nine free lectures have been furnished, of a quality which, it will appear on a recital of the list, it would be difficult to better. Professor Goodale of Har vard opened the course with an illustrated lecture on the Botany of New Zealand. Subway - Commissioner Gargan followed with an illustrated account of the great Boston enterprise. Next came Prof. Arlo Bates of the Institute of Technology on The Language of Literature, followed by Professor Minot of the Harvard Medical School on the great Russian Naturalist, Von Baer. The fifth lecture was from General Curtis Guild, Jr., on the Sword in Warfare. The sixth was by Rev. E. D. Towle on the Poet Holmes, and the next by Professor Ripley of the Technological School on Some Peculiar People of South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.