Excerpt from Natural History When the Home was thus completed, the Author was requested to inaugurate it with a Lecture, which he willingly undertook to do. It was listened to by a most attentive audience, and suitable addresses were also made to the men by his friend Mr. Cordy Burrows, and other gentlemen present. These lectures were continued from time to time, as occasions offered, during the period the Author remained at Brighton, and last Winter he resumed the practice and he has reason to be gratified with the result of his labours, for his assertion will be borne out by many others, that a more well conducted, sober, and attentive set of men than his hearers have seldom been collected together. 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.