John Dalton's lectures and lecture illustrations.

  • Gee, W. W. Haldane.
Date:
[1915]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: John Dalton's lectures and lecture illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    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 & Harden, p. 66). The spelling ol 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).
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