THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 RIVERSIDE 
 
 Ex tibris 
 C. K. OGDEN
 
 The History of 
 The Lowell Institute
 
 JOHN LOWELL, JR. 
 The Founder of the Lowell Institute 
 
 From the only portrait extant, painted in Egypt at the time of the 
 execution of the will endowing the Institute
 
 Cf- 
 
 The History of 
 
 The Lowell Institute 
 
 BY 
 
 HARRIETTS KNIGHT SMITH 
 
 Lamson, WolfFe and Company 
 
 Boston, New York and London 
 MDCCCXCVIII
 
 Copyright, 1898, 
 By Lamson, WolfFe and Company. 
 
 All rights reserved. 
 
 Norwood Press 
 
 J. S. Gushing & Co. Berwick & Smith 
 Norwood Mass. U. S. A.
 
 Contents 
 
 Page 
 Author's Preface ..... ix 
 
 The Lowell Institute I 
 
 A List of Lecturers and the Subjects of their 
 Lectures in the Lowell Institute, 1839- 
 1898 49 
 
 Index 95 
 
 V 
 
 A List of Publications corresponding to, and 
 
 mainly the direct result of, Courses of Lect- 
 ures delivered before the Lowell Institute . 106 
 
 
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 THE Author and Publishers gratefully recognize 
 their obligations to representative New Englanders, 
 for numerous courtesies received during the writing of 
 this history ; but especially to Augustus Lowell, Esq. , 
 Benjamin E. Getting, M.D., and Professor William 
 T. Sedgwick, for confirmation and approval of their 
 united labors.
 
 List of Illustrations and Portraits 
 
 John Lowell, Jr., the Founder of the Lowell 
 
 Institute .... Frontispiece 
 
 Opposite Page 
 The Odeon, corner Federal and Franklin Streets, 
 
 Boston ...... 7 
 
 John Amory Lowell, Esq. . . . .15 
 
 Professor Jeffries Wyman . ... .18 
 
 Dr. B. E. Cotting . . . . .20 
 
 Marlboro Hotel, showing Passageway to the 
 
 Marlboro Chapel . . . . -25 
 
 The Lowell Drawing-School Room in Marl- 
 boro Chapel . . . . .28 
 
 Dr. Josiah Parsons Cooke . . . -33 
 Professor Louis Agassiz . . . -39 
 
 Rogers Building, Massachusetts Institute of 
 
 Technology . . . . -43 
 
 Huntington Hall, Rogers Building . . 45 
 
 Plan of Huntington Hall . . . .48 
 
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 Preface 
 
 SOME years since, in the course of 
 other professional work, it became 
 necessary for me to make intelligent men- 
 tion of the Lowell Institute in connection 
 with Professor Henry Drummond's pres- 
 ence in America, as its lecturer, at which 
 time I discovered with surprise that this 
 noble endowment had no written his- 
 tory. An intense love of my native land 
 prompted me to make a thorough review 
 of this unique American institution, and 
 the following pages are the result of three 
 years of delightful investigation. 
 
 "How do you estimate the influence 
 which the Lowell Institute has had upon 
 the intellectual life of the country ? " I 
 asked of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
 within four months of his death. 
 
 " When you have said every enthusi- 
 astic thing that you may, you will not
 
 x Preface 
 
 have half filled the measure of its impor- 
 tance to Boston New England the 
 country at large," he replied. 
 
 "I myself," he added, "feel that its 
 benefits have been of the largest signifi- 
 cance to me, since at the time I was in- 
 vited to deliver a course of lectures on the 
 English Poets, I was not a well-equipped 
 critic, but as an honest man I went about 
 fitting myself for this important public 
 service which resulted in almost re- 
 making my intellectual life, in its larger 
 outreach. No nobler or more helpful 
 institution exists in America than Boston's 
 Lowell Institute," he concluded. 
 
 To the memory of John Lowell, Jr., 
 the founder, and to the memory of 
 John Amory Lowell, first trustee of this 
 beneficent foundation, this brief history is 
 dedicated by a citizen, as a grateful tribute 
 to the Institute's first threescore years of 
 life and effective work, in a country whose 
 early history is fast waxing old. 
 
 HARRIETTS KNIGHT SMITH. 
 
 BOSTON, March, 1898.
 
 The Lowell Institute 
 
 AMONG the numerous educational 
 institutions of Europe and America 
 there is doubtless not one so unique and 
 individual in its character as the Lowell 
 Institute of Boston, a foundation which 
 has existed for almost sixty years, with- 
 out ostentation, and with no written his- 
 tory, yet whose influences have been so 
 far-reaching that it has taken rank as one 
 of the noblest -of American institutions, 
 and is perhaps even better known among 
 many circles in the Old World, through 
 the men eminent in literature, science, 
 and art who have crossed the sea to give 
 before it courses of lectures. It is so 
 substantially endowed as to be able at 
 all times to command almost any man it 
 may name as lecturer, and to remunerate 
 him generously for the careful preparation 
 which it always demands.
 
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 To understand how the Lowell Insti- 
 tute came into being, one must look 
 backward and learn something of the 
 intellectual life of early New England. 
 In the old days the rigorous Puritan con- 
 science forbade all worldly amusements ; 
 and the playhouse, above all, was abso- 
 lutely prohibited. Courses of lectures on 
 religious subjects, however, were encour- 
 aged as essential to the training of the 
 young. These lectures, which in Massa- 
 chusetts were numerous, became so long 
 and burdensome, although after all they 
 seem to have been the delight of the 
 Boston people, that in 1639 tne General 
 Court took exception to the length of 
 them and to the ill effects resulting from 
 their frequency, whereby it was claimed 
 that "poor people were greatly led to 
 neglqct their affairs, to the great hazard 
 also of their health, owing to their long 
 continuance into the night." Boston 
 expressed strong dislike at this legislative 
 interference, "fearing that the precedent 
 might enthrall them to the civil power,
 
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 and besides be a blemish upon them with 
 their posterity, as though they needed to 
 be regulated by the civil magistrate, and 
 raise an ill-savor of their coldness, as if it 
 were possible for the people of Boston to 
 complain of too much preaching." The 
 magistrates, fearing trouble, were content 
 to apologize and abandon their scheme 
 of shortening the lectures or diminishing 
 their number, resting satisfied with a 
 general understanding " that assemblies 
 should break up in such season that 
 people dwelling a mile or two off might 
 be at home before late night-fall." 
 
 With the British troops in the Revo- 
 lutionary period came the first American 
 theatrical performances, given by the 
 redcoats as simple matters of diversion in 
 their rather stupid existence. The more 
 worldly-minded of the colonists were to 
 some extent affected by the curiosity, at 
 least, which these plays awakened. 
 
 Instruction by means of lectures had 
 always been a favorite method among 
 New Englanders, so much so that when
 
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 theatrical plays were later attempted in 
 Boston, during the autumn of 1792, it 
 was found necessary to call them " moral 
 lectures" in order to secure public interest. 
 College professors taught their classes 
 by means of lectures, and instruction in 
 the professional schools of law, medicine, 
 and theology was also largely given in the 
 same manner. These professors and the 
 clergymen were called upon to deliver not 
 a few such lectures for the benefit of the 
 various communities, while the lawyer, if 
 the town had one, was also expected to 
 assist, and the village doctor, seldom a 
 ready writer, now and then contributed a 
 discourse of a practical if less pretentious 
 character. Almost any one, therefore, 
 possessed of an idea and the least facility 
 in expression was quite certain of being 
 asked to deliver himself of it in public, 
 for a fee ranging from five to fifty dollars, 
 according to the standing of the individual 
 and the financial ability of the society em- 
 ploying him. A high city official, a gen- 
 tleman with one lecture and that verbose
 
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 and extravagrant, boasted at the end of a 
 season during this period, that "he had 
 delivered his one lecture ninety times, and 
 for ten dollars at each delivery." Wen- 
 dell Phillips at a later date delivered his 
 famous lecture on " The Lost Arts " two 
 thousand times, we are told. 
 
 He could name his own time and price 
 for it : audiences were carried away and 
 were in almost a constant state of ap- 
 plause, during its delivery ; every para- 
 graph seemed to elicit especial response. 
 When asked by a near friend how it was 
 possible to secure such an effect at the 
 close of each sentence, the lecturer re- 
 plied that "when he found that one 
 form would not do it, he altered the 
 phraseology ; that not succeeding, he made 
 other changes, or substituted another 
 paragraph, until the whole was satisfac- 
 tory." 
 
 The mention of Phillips of course 
 brings us to the time of the New England 
 lyceum. Agencies were established to or- 
 ganize the required courses of lectures, and
 
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 for a percentage to attend to all necessary 
 details. It was not " good form " in an 
 influential family not to encourage some 
 one or more of these lecture courses, and 
 generally the tickets were readily sold at 
 prices which insured pecuniary success. 
 From 1825 to 1850 or later lectures may 
 be said to have been epidemic in New 
 England. Various organizations, like the 
 Mercantile Library Association in Boston 
 (composed of young merchants and clerks), 
 the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 
 Knowledge, the Mechanics' Institutes and 
 others, provided courses of lectures to re- 
 plenish their funds. At times the people 
 seemed to become satiated with the more 
 serious discourses, and various novelties 
 were introduced to sustain the public in- 
 terest, like the interpolation of a concert 
 or two or the exhibition of a juggler. In 
 some localities really solid work was at- 
 tempted, like continuous courses on liter- 
 ary, historical, or scientific subjects. These, 
 however, were usually but partially suc- 
 cessful financially, and it was difficult to
 
 THE ODEON 
 
 Corner of Federal and Franklin Streets, Boston
 
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 obtain lecturers of sufficient ability or 
 public spirit to undertake such ventures. 
 
 The prejudice against the theatre had 
 not subsided, but was rather intensified. 
 The theatre itself, as it was then con- 
 ducted, was largely responsible for this. 
 Boston's first building especially appro- 
 priated to public amusements was Concert 
 Hall, erected in 1756, at the head of Han- 
 over Street. It was designed for concerts, 
 dancing, and other entertainments, and was 
 doubtless the place in which, for the most 
 part, the British officers conducted their 
 amusements while in possession of the 
 town. A law of the province, passed in 
 1750, prohibited theatrical exhibitions 
 under a severe penalty. This law was 
 considered "unconstitutional, inexpedient, 
 and absurd " ; and years later, in obedi- 
 ence to public wishes, the theatre in Fed- 
 eral Street, at the corner of Franklin, was 
 built and opened in 1794. 
 
 During the time when the English held 
 Boston, the North End, in the vicinity 
 of Copp's Hill and North Square, was
 
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 the court end of the town. But after the 
 Revolution the neighborhood in which 
 the theatre was built had become the resi- 
 dential centre of the wealth and refine- 
 ment of Boston. Near here were the 
 Federal Street Church (afterward Dr. 
 Channing's) and Trinity Church on Sum- 
 mer Street, besides the only Roman 
 Catholic Church in the city, and its 
 bishop's house, together with many hand- 
 some private residences. 
 
 In 1796 the Haymarket Theatre was 
 built at the foot of the Common, near 
 Avery Street; later the Washington, 
 Tremont, Lion, and National Theatres 
 and the Howard Athenaeum, the latter on 
 the site of Miller's Tabernacle, a great 
 barn-like structure, occupied by the Mil- 
 lerites, who flourished in the early forties. 
 These theatres were all constructed after 
 the manner of the English theatres of that 
 period with " refreshment rooms " so 
 called, which were in reality common grog- 
 shops, contiguous to them or within easy 
 access, with an entrance directly from the
 
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 pit and the first row of boxes. Free ad- 
 mission was granted to women to the 
 "third row." To make no mention, 
 therefore, of the performances of the 
 poor, degraded stage, these places were 
 in themselves sufficiently demoralizing to 
 condemn them to the religious and re- 
 spectable of the community. This reli- 
 gious element resolved "that the theatre 
 must go, and go forever." The Federal 
 Street Theatre had already been taken by 
 the Boston Academy of Music ; and under 
 the direction of the president, Mr. Samuel 
 A. Eliot (the father of President Eliot of 
 Harvard University), changed into the 
 Odeon. The National, or Warren, sub- 
 sequently died of inanition. The Tre- 
 mont Theatre building still remained. 
 The Baptist denomination secured this, 
 and made it over into Tremont Temple, 
 dedicating it in 1839, "henceforth to re- 
 ligious purposes," while it was openly 
 declared that "there was never to be 
 another theatre in Boston." 
 
 These, then, were the conditions of the
 
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 educational and amusement life of New 
 England preceding the foundation of the 
 Lowell Institute. People were yet de- 
 sirous of intermingling instruction with 
 their diversions, but much profitless work 
 was being done in the miscellaneous, de- 
 sultory lecturing which, after the theatres 
 were closed, seemed the only recreation 
 left to the people. During the winter of 
 1837-38 twenty-six courses of lectures 
 were delivered in Boston, not including 
 those courses which consisted of less than 
 eight lectures ; and it is estimated that 
 they were attended by about thirteen 
 thousand persons. These facts sufficiently 
 show the importance and the popularity 
 of the lectures at this time in the neigh- 
 borhood of Boston, and the questions of 
 reform and improvement involved. 
 
 In two points this lecture system was 
 evidently defective. First, the means of 
 the organizations under which the lectures 
 were given were usually too meagre to 
 induce men of talent and broad culture 
 to undertake the preparation of thorough
 
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 and systematic courses ; therefore the 
 work was almost wholly miscellaneous, 
 and no thorough series upon any particu- 
 lar branch of knowledge could be per- 
 manently sustained under such financial 
 conditions. Secondly, it was evident that 
 the system contained no principle for a 
 steady improvement in the nature of the 
 instruction it could furnish, unless it could 
 raise the standard of the literary character 
 of its work. 
 
 Mr. John Lowell, Jr., whose public 
 spirit, farsightedness, and generosity, al- 
 ways exercised with the modesty of which 
 the Lowell Institute is but typical, was 
 the individual who solved for New Eng- 
 land the problem of the higher lecture for 
 the average citizen which in reality 
 closely resembles what the leading col- 
 leges and universities elsewhere are now 
 establishing in what is known as univer- 
 sity extension. This plan of Mr. Lowell's 
 was in harmony with the New England 
 lecture system, yet went beyond it by 
 making its work systematic and thorough.
 
 12 The Lowell Institute 
 
 The confiding of the whole management 
 of the Institute, financial and intellectual, 
 to one individual is its most marked pe- 
 culiarity, distinguishing it from all other 
 similar endowments. In his will Mr. 
 Lowell thus prescribes : 
 
 " I do hereby constitute and appoint the 
 trustees of the Boston Athenaeum for the time 
 being to be visitors of the said trust fund, with 
 power to require accounts of the administration 
 thereof and to compel the appropriation thereof 
 to the use aforesaid, but without any power or 
 authority to prescribe or direct by whom the 
 said lectures shall be given, nor the subjects 
 thereof; considering it best to leave that high 
 personal responsibility upon the trustee or trus- 
 tees of the fund for the time being. 
 
 " Each trustee shall appoint his successor, 
 within a week after his accession to the office, 
 in order that no failure of a regular nomination 
 may take place. 
 
 " In selecting a successor the trustee shall 
 always choose in preference to all others some 
 male descendant of my grandfather, John 
 Lowell, provided there be one who is compe-
 
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 tent to hold the office of trustee, and of the 
 name of Lowell." 
 
 Mr. Lowell came of a distinguished 
 New England family, whose later descend- 
 ants have at the present day an inter- 
 national renown in the departments of 
 science and law. Of John Lowell, Jr., 
 it has been said : " He was a young Bos- 
 tonian intended by nature for a states- 
 man, whom the caprice of fortune had 
 made a merchant." 
 
 The great-grandfather of John Lowell, 
 Jr., was the first minister of Newburyport. 
 His grandfather, Judge John Lowell, was 
 among those who enjoyed the public con- 
 fidence in the times which tried men's 
 souls, and bore his part in the greatest 
 work recorded in the annals of constitu- 
 tional liberty, the American Revolution. 
 
 In 1779 h was chosen a member of 
 the convention for framing a constitution 
 of state government. 
 
 He it was who in 1780 introduced the 
 clause in the Massachusetts Bill of Rights,
 
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 under which the Supreme Court of Massa- 
 chusetts freed every slave in the state who 
 sought his freedom. 
 
 This was the first prohibition of human 
 slavery in any statute or constitution which 
 was ever written, and every loyal Ameri- 
 can should be willing to accord to Judge 
 John Lowell his reverent gratitude for 
 this momentous and historic act of patriot- 
 ism. 
 
 In 1781 he served in the Continental 
 Congress, and on the adoption of the 
 constitution, he was appointed by Wash- 
 ington a judge of the District Court of 
 the United States, and later chief justice 
 of the Circuit Court. 
 
 Of the three sons of Judge Lowell, the 
 eldest, John, was an eminent lawyer and 
 writer upon political and agricultural sub- 
 jects. His only son was John Amory 
 Lowell. The second, Francis Cabot 
 Lowell, the father of the founder of the 
 Institute, was a merchant, who during the 
 War of 1812 conceived the idea of manu- 
 facturing in this country the cotton goods
 
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 which he had been wont to import from 
 India, and by reinventing the power-loom 
 did more than any one else to establish 
 that industry in America. The young- 
 est, the Rev. Charles Lowell, was the 
 eminent Boston minister, the father of 
 several distinguished children, the young- 
 est of whom was James Russell Lowell. 
 
 John Lowell, Jr., like his father, was a 
 successful merchant. Early bereft of 
 wife and children, he passed the few 
 remaining years of his life in travel, and 
 died in Bombay, March 4, 1836. He 
 was only thirty-four years of age when 
 he made his will giving half of his prop- 
 erty to the support of public lectures for 
 the benefit of his fellow-citizens. This 
 sum bequeathed by Mr. Lowell, with its 
 accumulations, amounted at the time of 
 the opening of the lectures to nearly two 
 hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The 
 trustee appointed by the will was Mr. 
 John Amory Lowell, a cousin and inti- 
 mate friend of the founder, who thor- 
 oughly justified the expectation of his
 
 1 6 The Lowell Institute 
 
 kinsman. When told by his lawyer that 
 he could find no one capable of carrying 
 out his purpose, Mr. Lowell replied, " I 
 know the man." During an administra- 
 tion of more than forty years John Amory 
 Lowell had the sole charge of the en- 
 dowment, selected the lecturers and the 
 subjects to be treated, and managed the 
 finances with such skill that the property 
 nearly doubled in his hands. Seldom has 
 so responsible a duty been imposed upon 
 any one man. But Mr. Lowell was 
 rarely endowed for the position. To his 
 eminent qualities of strong sense, great 
 courage, and large acquirement, which 
 enabled him to select wisely, he added 
 knowledge of affairs and great singleness 
 of purpose. Modest and retiring, he 
 never appeared in the management farther 
 than was absolutely necessary, but was 
 content with a silent authoritative con- 
 trol. 
 
 The list of the lectures and lecturers 
 subjoined will give some idea of the 
 amount of work involved, as well as the
 
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 extent of the benefit which the commu- 
 nity must have derived from the estab- 
 lishment of this noble institution, of 
 which the influences may be said to have 
 only begun, since it is to last forever. 
 
 By the terms of the will, as previously 
 described, the trustee for the time being 
 must appoint as his successor some de- 
 scendant of the grandfather of the founder 
 and of the name of Lowell, if a suitable 
 one can be found. Under the exercise 
 of this authority, the present trustee, Mr. 
 Augustus Lowell, has held the position 
 for the past fifteen years. Under his 
 administration the work of the Institute 
 has been extended by the establishment 
 of new courses of lectures, and the en- 
 largement of those already founded, until 
 now there are delivered annually between 
 five and six hundred lectures, all under 
 Mr. Lowell's personal management. The 
 value of bringing all these riches of 
 knowledge to the very doors of Boston 
 and her suburbs, without money and 
 without price, is a continual reminder of
 
 1 8 The Lowell Institute 
 
 the opulent wisdom of Mr. John Lowell, 
 Jr., in the founding of the Lowell Insti- 
 tute, and of the integrity with which the 
 trust is sustained and developed in influ- 
 ence and power. 
 
 Notable as has been the history of the 
 Lowell Institute, it has been unusually 
 fortunate in the management of affairs in 
 its relations with the public. These duties 
 have been delegated to one named the 
 curator by Mr. John Amory Lowell, the 
 first trustee, and therefore so termed at 
 the present time. The first curator, who 
 served for three years, was Dr. Jeffries 
 Wyman, the eminent comparative anato- 
 mist, whose early death took from the 
 ranks of American science one of its most 
 brilliant and thorough students ; of him 
 James Russell Lowell has said : 
 
 " He widened knowledge and escaped the praise; 
 He wisely taught because more wise to 
 
 learn ; 
 He toiled for Science, not to draw men's 
 
 gaze, 
 But for her lore of self-denial stern."
 
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 Associated with him from the com- 
 mencement, and his successor after 1842, 
 was Dr. Benjamin E. Cotting, who for a 
 period of fifty-eight years (until his death 
 May 22, 1897 in his eighty-fifth year) 
 attended from the first discourse nearly 
 every lecture delivered, and had the re- 
 sponsibility of serving Mr. John Amory 
 Lowell and his son and successor in the 
 administration of the business connected 
 with the lectures, including the advertis- 
 ing and distribution of tickets, and the 
 arrangements in the several halls in which 
 the lectures have been given. These duties 
 require a man of affairs and ready adapt- 
 ability, acquainted with physical science 
 and modes of lecture demonstration, to- 
 gether with a readiness to catch the pe- 
 culiarities of the lecturers and to make 
 for each all necessary arrangements in a 
 way satisfactory to him. 
 
 In Dr. Cotting all these essentials were 
 united, and the Lowell Institute was most 
 judicious in retaining in its service for more 
 than half a century this gentleman, whose
 
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 position in his profession of medicine and 
 surgery was of the highest, not only in its 
 practice, but in the life and literature of his 
 profession, he having been successively 
 secretary, councillor, orator, and president 
 of the Massachusetts Medical Society. 
 
 Dr. Getting was ever recognized as a 
 gentleman of rare business instincts and 
 calm judgment, interblended with most 
 gracious social qualities, which rendered 
 his official relations with the leading men 
 of America and the Old World alike 
 pleasing to the lecturers and valuable to 
 the Lowell Institute. 
 
 In April, 1897, William Thompson 
 Sedgwick, professor of biology in the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 succeeded to the curatorship, Dr. Cotting 
 having resigned this office on account of 
 advancing age and infirmities. Professor 
 Sedgwick's association with the Lowell 
 Free Courses in the Institute of Tech- 
 nology, and his familiarity with scientific 
 and other educational developments made 
 his appointment logical.
 
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 On the evening of December 31, 1839, 
 the last day of the year, an interesting dis- 
 course was given in the Odeon, which 
 seated about two thousand persons, by 
 Edward Everett, consisting of a memoir 
 of Mr. John Lowell, Jr., together with 
 some anticipatory suggestions of the value 
 of such an institution. This discourse 
 was repeated on the evening of January 2, 
 1840. Then followed the regular courses 
 in a manner similar to that which has 
 since prevailed ; and the Lowell Institute 
 was established. 
 
 The first lectures were a course given 
 by Professor Benjamin Silliman of Yale 
 College, on geology. Mr. Silliman was 
 at that time one of the most noted of 
 American lecturers, a man prominent in 
 science, but whose reputation abroad was 
 perhaps chiefly due to his long and able 
 management of the periodical known as 
 Silliman s Journal. So great was his popu- 
 larity, that on the giving out of tickets for 
 his second course, on chemistry, the fol- 
 lowing season, the eager crowd filled the
 
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 adjacent streets and crushed in the win- 
 dows of the " Old Corner Book Store," 
 the place of distribution, so that provi- 
 sion for this had to be made elsewhere. 
 To such a degree did the enthusiasm of 
 the public reach at that time in its desire 
 to attend these lectures, that it was found 
 necessary to open books in advance to re- 
 ceive the names of subscribers, the num- 
 ber of tickets being, distributed by lot. 
 Sometimes the number of applicants for a 
 single course was eight or ten thousand. 
 
 From the advertisements of those days 
 we find that tickets were distributed, ac- 
 cording to necessity, to those who held 
 numbers divisible by 3, 4, or 5. This plan 
 was followed until the number of appli- 
 cants did not much exceed the number 
 of seats. When this occurred, the tickets 
 were advertised to be ready for delivery, 
 to adults only, on a certain date. At the 
 time and place appointed a line was formed, 
 that the first comers might be the first re- 
 ceivers of tickets. For some years past 
 a large hall has been secured, capable of
 
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 receiving under cover several thousand 
 persons at a time, so that applicants, no 
 matter how many or how eager, can be 
 arranged in line and receive their tickets 
 in the order of their coming. 
 
 The several lecture courses, with time, 
 place, and conditions for obtaining tickets, 
 are announced in certain Boston news- 
 papers, usually at least a week in advance 
 of each course. Such tickets, with re- 
 served seats, are good for the entire 
 course, but always to be shown at the 
 door. There are a limited number of 
 admission tickets, without reserved seats ; 
 while admission to single lectures may 
 also usually be obtained at the hall by 
 waiting in line for a few moments just 
 before the lecture. 
 
 During the season of 1895-96, a some- 
 what larger privilege was granted citizens, 
 in obtaining course tickets, by the an- 
 nouncement in connection with the adver- 
 tisement of lectures that any tickets with 
 reserved seats, which remained after the 
 line distribution, could be secured by appli-
 
 24 The Lowell Institute 
 
 cants who enclosed stamped and addressed 
 envelopes to the lecture management. 
 This method has proved a great conven- 
 ience to the public, and larger audiences 
 have, in consequence, greeted the lecturers 
 since this additional favor was bestowed. 
 
 To prevent interruption and secure a 
 quiet audience, certain rules were adopted : 
 first, the closing of the hall doors the 
 moment a lecturer began speaking, and 
 keeping them closed until he had con- 
 cluded. This rule was at first resisted to 
 such a degree that a reputable gentleman 
 was taken to the lockup and compelled to 
 pay a fine for kicking his way through an 
 entrance door. Finally the rule was sub- 
 mitted to, and in time praised and copied 
 as, in certain measure, at the Boston 
 Symphony concerts. The lectures were 
 also limited to one hour ; and in general 
 the audiences have gradually been induced 
 to applaud the lecturer only when he enters 
 and retires. 
 
 The lectures were given in the Odeon 
 from their establishment in 1839 unt il
 
 MARLBORO HOTEL 
 Showing passageway to the Marlboro Chapel
 
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 1846, when that building was converted 
 into warehouses. The following season 
 they were given in Tremont Temple. 
 After this they were held in Marlboro 
 Chapel, previously a lecture-room formed 
 of an L of Marlboro Hotel on Wash- 
 ington Street. The hall itself was in 
 that mysterious square which only a 
 born Bostonian can understand. It was 
 bounded by Washington and Tremont, 
 Winter and Bromfield streets. Music 
 Hall was in the same square, and a close 
 neighbor to the Marlboro Chapel. The 
 entrance to the lecture-room was through 
 an unattractive arched passageway, which 
 all Bostonians of mature age will remember 
 for its aromatic odors and the resonant 
 notes of practising musicians thereabout. 
 
 This chapel had for some time previous 
 been the rendezvous of all the ultra asso- 
 ciations, which found it difficult to obtain 
 lecture-rooms elsewhere, being composed, 
 as Dr. Holmes puts it, of " lean, hungry, 
 savage anti-everythings." In 1846 it 
 was thoroughly remade into a reputable
 
 26 The Lowell Institute 
 
 lecture-room ; and in it the Lowell lect- 
 ures were given until 1879, when again 
 commercialism invaded and it was closed 
 to educational purposes and given up to 
 traffic. 
 
 The best available hall was then found 
 after much search to be Huntington Hall, 
 in the Rogers Building of the Massachu- 
 setts Institute of Technology. Its situ- 
 ation was thought, in 1879, to be quite 
 removed from the lecture centre of the 
 city ; now it is not only such a centre, 
 but nearly the centre of population of the 
 city itself. 
 
 In the spring of 1850 Mr. John Amory 
 Lowell, the first trustee, wished to estab- 
 lish in connection with the Lowell Institute 
 a free drawing-school. Dr. Cotting was re- 
 quested to undertake this work during Mr. 
 Lowell's absence in Europe. Two plans 
 were devised and presented in writing to 
 Mr. Lowell. He selected the one which 
 was afterward followed, principally on the 
 ground of its being the more elementary. 
 It was peculiar, in that it required the
 
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 pupil to begin and continue through his 
 entire course to draw from real objects 
 only "the round," as it is technically 
 called, from rectangular forms up to the 
 living models, and never from copies or 
 " flat surfaces." The principle and plan, 
 as well as most of the details, were of the 
 curator's devising. In few drawing-schools 
 in the country, if in any, had "the round" 
 found any place at all up to that date, 
 and its exclusive use in none, so far as 
 known. 
 
 It was not easy to secure a suitable 
 teacher willing to undertake to carry out 
 this plan. By chance an artist was over- 
 heard to express at random views which 
 were similar to the curator's. After much 
 persuasion, and with great distrust on the 
 artist's part, his services were secured. He 
 proved a most successful teacher ; and 
 during its entire course of more than a 
 quarter of a century remained the school's 
 chief. Mr. Hollingsworth's enthusiasm 
 was the school's life ; his devotion its un- 
 failing support.
 
 28 The Lowell Institute 
 
 The school began in the autumn of 
 1850. At first it met with much ridicule 
 from professional teachers, art critics, and 
 others; but it soon grew popular with its 
 pupils. Many curious and amusing anec- 
 dotes might be told of its early history and 
 later progress. Prominent teachers and 
 artists, some of whom later became famous, 
 at times attended the school to obtain its 
 peculiar advantages. Mr. Rollings worth 
 was an original, and his assistant, Mr. 
 William T. Carleton, had many valuable 
 parts. 
 
 The school was eminently successful in 
 establishing correct methods of drawing, 
 and had the satisfaction of being imitated 
 all over the country, almost to the entire 
 revolution in the teaching of drawing. 
 Nowadays no school is without its "real 
 objects" on its programme, if not in 
 actual use. 
 
 In 1879, on the loss of its rooms in 
 Marlboro Chapel, the school, to the re- 
 gret of many students, came to an honor- 
 able end.
 
 THE LOWELL DRAWING-SCHOOL ROOM 
 In Marlboro Chapel
 
 The Lowell Institute 29 
 
 From December 31, 1839, to January, 
 1898, there have been given under the 
 auspices of the Lowell Institute four hun- 
 dred and twenty-seven regular courses of 
 lectures, or four thousand and twenty 
 separate lectures ; these, with those re- 
 peated, bring the number to four thousand 
 three hundred and twenty-five, all ab- 
 solutely free lectures, prepared by the best 
 minds of the age, and representing the 
 highest developments in all the various de- 
 partments of science, literature, and art. 
 
 In addition to these there have been 
 given five courses in the name of estab- 
 lished local societies (e.g. the Academy of 
 Arts and Sciences, and the Massachusetts 
 Historical Society) by representative mem- 
 bers named by the societies themselves. 
 Sixty-one such lectures, added to the num- 
 ber of regular and repeated lectures, make 
 the grand total five thousand four hun- 
 dred and twenty-five, given by three 
 hundred and fifty-two different lecturers. 
 
 Crude theories and plans for moral and 
 political reforms are not to be found in
 
 jo The Lowell Institute 
 
 the Lowell lectures. The selection of 
 lectures and lecturers is made from a 
 broad and comprehensive knowledge of 
 the safe thought and intelligent study of 
 the time, and with an active sympathy 
 for the varied interests of the community. 
 
 The income of the fund, with the ex- 
 ception of one-tenth, which must annually 
 be added to the principal, is applied, in 
 strict accordance with the founder's de- 
 sires, directly to the maintenance of the 
 lectures, and never has been, or can be, 
 invested in buildings. Hence the gen- 
 erous remuneration, which in early days 
 was sometimes larger for a single course 
 of lectures than the annual salary of the 
 most distinguished professor in any Amer- 
 ican college or university. The same 
 liberality is yet a marked financial feature 
 of the Institute, its lecture fees continuing 
 to be much larger than those of any other 
 American educational institution. 
 
 In the long line of eminent men who 
 have lectured on their several specialties 
 for the Lowell Institute may be mentioned,
 
 The Lowell Institute 31 
 
 in science, the names of Silliman, Lyell, 
 Agassiz, Gray, Levering, Rogers, Cooke, 
 Wyman, Peirce, Tyndall, Whitney, New- 
 comb, Ball, Proctor, Young, Langley, 
 Gould, Wallace, Geikie, Dawson, Cross, 
 G. H. Darwin, Farlow, and Goodale. 
 
 The four gentlemen who have given 
 the largest number of lectures, all of 
 which were illustrated by experiments, are 
 Professors Levering, Agassiz, Silliman, 
 and Cooke Lovering leading the list 
 with one hundred and sixty-eight, followed 
 by Agassiz, who gave one hundred and 
 sixteen, next to whom is Silliman, who 
 delivered ninety-six, while Dr. Cooke was 
 heard ninety-two times. 
 
 Among the lecturers on religious sub- 
 jects are the honored names of Palfrey 
 and Walker, Andrew P. Peabody, J. L. Di- 
 man, George P. Fisher, Richard S. Storrs, 
 Lyman Abbott, Mark Hopkins, Henry 
 Drummond, and William J. Tucker. 
 
 Literature, philosophy, art, history, and 
 education have been represented by men 
 like Edward Everett, Sparks, Felton,
 
 32 The Lowell Institute 
 
 Bowen, J. R. Lowell, Child, Whipple, 
 Norton, William Everett, Barnard, Chan- 
 ning, Howells, Perkins, Bascom, Clapp, 
 Hale, Lanciani, Fiske, Bryce, and Eliot. 
 
 The course delivered by Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes in 1852-53 was exceptional; 
 being all freshly written lectures, of which 
 he said " that the ink thereon had hardly 
 time to dry," and each of which was 
 concluded with a new and original poem. 
 
 James Russell Lowell's course in 1886- 
 87 on "Early English Dramatists" was 
 also a memorable one; indeed so popular 
 that great difficulty was experienced by 
 the management in handling the immense 
 audiences which applied during the even- 
 ings without tickets. i 
 
 Professor Drummond's course, and the 
 recent one by Edward Everett Hale on 
 "The Local History and Antiquities of 
 Boston," have drawn perhaps as large and 
 enthusiastic audiences as any in recent 
 years. 
 
 Among the many lecturers of the In- 
 stitute, there is one whose history is so
 
 The Lowell Institute 33 
 
 interblended with its own, that he often 
 called himself "a child of the Lowell 
 Institute " ; and in this close relationship 
 both Dr. Josiah Parsons Cooke and the 
 Lowell Institute are to be felicitated. It 
 was the fulfilment of a relationship the 
 like of which may have suggested itself to 
 the far-sighted founder. 
 
 When a boy of thirteen years of age, 
 Josiah P. Cooke as he told the Boston 
 schoolmasters in his address delivered to 
 them in 1878, on "The Elementary 
 Teaching of Physical Science" attended 
 the lectures of Professor Silliman at the 
 Odeon. He was one among the throng 
 turned away from the Old Corner Book 
 Store, when the distribution of tickets 
 was stopped, at the time the windows 
 were crushed in by the eager appli- 
 cants. So great was his disappointment 
 on being unable to secure a ticket, that 
 his father, ever thoughtful, purchased from 
 a fortunate possessor, for a handsome 
 price, his much-prized ticket, that the 
 future great chemist might attend these
 
 34 The Lowell Institute 
 
 lectures. Of them Dr. Cooke said : " At 
 these lectures I received my first taste of 
 real knowledge, and that taste awakened 
 an appetite which has never yet been 
 satisfied. A boy's pertinacity, favored by 
 a kind father's indulgence, found the 
 means of repeating in a small way most 
 of the experiments seen at the Lowell 
 Institute lectures, and thus it came to 
 pass that before I entered college I had 
 acquired a real, available knowledge of the 
 facts of chemistry. My early tastes and 
 inheritances were utterly at variance with 
 this interest in science, which was simply 
 determined by the associations which sat- 
 isfied that natural thirst for knowledge 
 which every child experiences to a greater 
 or less degree, and which I first found at 
 the Lowell Institute lectures." 
 
 At sixteen years of age, in the year 
 1844, the young student entered Harvard, 
 graduating in 1848. In September, 1849, 
 after a year's absence in Europe, he re- 
 turned to Harvard as a tutor of mathe- 
 matics ; and among his first pupils was
 
 The Lowell Institute 35 
 
 the present president of the University. 
 At this time no chemistry was being 
 taught to undergraduates ; but within six 
 months Professor Cooke began to give 
 instruction in this science, in connection 
 with his other work. This continued 
 until December 30, 1850, when he was 
 formally appointed to the professorship 
 of chemistry, a position which he held 
 for the remainder of his life, a period of 
 forty-three years. 
 
 Dr. Cooke said of his preparation for 
 this work : " When I was unexpectedly 
 called upon to deliver my first course of 
 lectures in chemistry, the only laboratory 
 in which I had worked was the shed of 
 my father's house, on Winthrop Place, 
 Boston, and the only apparatus at my 
 command was what this boy's laboratory 
 contained. With these simple tools or 
 because they were so simple I gained 
 the means of success which determined 
 my career." 
 
 The first course of American lectures 
 illustrated by a stereopticon were those on
 
 36 The Lowell Institute 
 
 " Glaciers," given by Professor Louis 
 Agassiz at the Lowell Institute, and illus- 
 trated for him by Dr. Cooke. The " ver- 
 tical lantern " with which Dr. Cooke 
 illustrated his own Lowell lectures on 
 "The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic 
 Elements," in the season of 1855-56, 
 was invented by him for use on this occa- 
 sion. The lantern has since become fa- 
 mous. But the desire to serve the Lowell 
 Institute was the inspiration of its inven- 
 tion. In this instance the Lowell Insti- 
 tute, in having thus served to develop the 
 genius of one who so long and success- 
 fully honored America's leading university 
 and the Institute itself in the successive 
 courses of scientific lectures delivered 
 under its auspices, besides for many years 
 serving the Academy of Arts and Sciences 
 as its president, reached the ideal of a per- 
 sonal influence for which the legacy was 
 provided. Dr. Cooke's association with the 
 institution is full of significance ; and his 
 life-long impulse to emphasize the influ- 
 ence which the endowment accomplished
 
 The Lowell Institute 37 
 
 for him must ever be a matter of grati- 
 fication to the descendants of John 
 Lowell. 
 
 Noteworthy among the many things 
 to be considered in connection with the 
 Institute and its influence in Boston is 
 the quality of the audiences which it 
 usually assembles for the lectures. They 
 are trained audiences, and the attention 
 and interest which are given by them to 
 continuous courses of even deep scien- 
 tific lectures are remarkable. This has 
 always been recognized by the lecturers, 
 and especially by those from the Old 
 World, who have often revised their work 
 after their first appearance before the In- 
 stitute audience ; this being true even as 
 recently as when Professor Drummond 
 delivered his admirable course, after find- 
 ing that he had entirely underestimated 
 the intelligence of his average listener, 
 and so rewrote his entire course after 
 his arrival in Boston. 
 
 Another influence of such an estab- 
 lishment as the Lowell Institute, which,
 
 38 The Lowell Institute 
 
 though not so obvious at first, is neverthe- 
 less distinct and worthy of notice, is that 
 on the lecturers themselves. One who is 
 going to lecture must consider what will 
 be his audience ; and if he is a careful 
 scientific man he will, in preparing such 
 lectures, study to make everything clear, 
 by statements couched in words of es- 
 tablished meaning readily understood by 
 the average intelligent listener not par- 
 ticularly versed in technicalities. In other 
 words, learned and scientific men must 
 make themselves clearly understood by 
 the average auditor. This necessity is 
 an influence which is most helpful for 
 lecturer and community alike; and this 
 good effect has often been seen and ac- 
 knowledged by the Institute's lecturers 
 themselves. 
 
 Literature has been enriched by the 
 publication in book form of many courses 
 of lectures prepared and first delivered 
 for the Lowell Institute. The recent ap- 
 pearance of Professor Drummond's work, 
 " The Ascent of Man," is a single illus-
 
 The Lowell Institute 39 
 
 tration of this fact in this realm of 
 science. 
 
 The indirect influences of Mr. Lowell's 
 endowment are inestimable ; for it has 
 touched almost every educational insti- 
 tution in the United States. Professor 
 Agassiz's engagement as lecturer for the 
 Lowell Institute resulted in the establish- 
 ment of the Lawrence Scientific School 
 at Harvard, with this great man as its 
 head. 
 
 In 1842 the Prince of Canino, a natu- 
 ralist almost as ardent as Agassiz, opened 
 a correspondence with the latter regard- 
 ing a visit together to this country, in 
 which Agassiz was to be the Prince's 
 guest. Agassiz was then absorbed in the 
 publication of his great work on fossil 
 fishes, so that from year to year this 
 visit was postponed. In 1845 Agassiz 
 wrote the Prince : " I have received an 
 excellent piece of news, which I venture to 
 believe will greatly please you. The King 
 of Prussia, through the ever-thoughtful 
 mediation of Humboldt, will grant me fif-
 
 40 The Lowell Institute 
 
 teen thousand francs for our scientific mis- 
 sion to America." At the suggestion of 
 Lyell, a mutual friend, Mr. John Amory 
 Lowell in this same year invited Agassiz 
 to come to Boston and deliver a course 
 of lectures before the Lowell Institute. 
 Thus encouraged by invitation and pecuni- 
 ary aid, he crossed the Atlantic in Octo- 
 ber, 1846, and in December made his 
 debut in America as a Lowell Institute lec- 
 turer. He was not accompanied, however, 
 by the Prince of Canino, who then found 
 this visit inexpedient. Hitherto Agassiz 
 had been the brilliant discoverer; now he 
 was to become the explorer and teacher. 
 He lectured, and was delighted with his 
 audience and the spirit of research that 
 his work aroused. The Lowell Institute 
 was intended by its founder to fertilize 
 the general mind, rather than to instruct 
 the select few ; consequently its audience, 
 democratic and composed of strongly 
 contrasted elements, had from the first a 
 marked attraction for Agassiz. A teacher 
 in the widest sense, who sought and found
 
 The Lowell Institute 41 
 
 his pupils in every class, but who in the 
 Lowell Institute's audience for the first 
 time came into contact with the general 
 mass of the people on this common 
 ground, this relation strongly influenced 
 his final resolve to remain in this country. 
 This purpose was reached in 1 847 through 
 an offer of Mr. Abbott Lawrence, who 
 then expressed his willingness to found the 
 Lawrence Scientific School in connection 
 with Harvard University, and to guarantee 
 a salary to Agassiz as professor of zoology 
 and geology. Thereupon Agassiz ob- 
 tained an honorable discharge from his 
 European engagements, and fixed his 
 abode in this country, associating him- 
 self with Harvard's great scientific school. 
 Agassiz came to Harvard with a new 
 method of teaching : he brought power 
 and accuracy of observation, and accuracy 
 of record ; this revolutionized completely 
 the methods followed in all departments 
 of the college ; thereby giving a new im- 
 pulse to science throughout the entire 
 continent. In his son, Professor Alex-
 
 42 The Lowell Institute 
 
 ander Agassiz, America has also inherited 
 from Agassiz a representative of the high- 
 est scientific ability and acquirement. 
 
 Professor Tyndall's enthusiasm for 
 American science and scholarship and 
 their development led him, after his 
 Lowell lectures, to give back to America 
 the ten thousand dollars he had received 
 for his American lectures in gifts for 
 scholarships to the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Columbia College, and Harvard 
 University. These institutions now have 
 men studying abroad as the result of Pro- 
 fessor Tyndall's interest in higher educa- 
 tion here, a direct influence of the 
 Lowell Institute in having first led Pro- 
 fessor Tyndall to know us and appreciate 
 our possibilities. 
 
 In carrying out some other provisions 
 of the will, chiefly that in which it is 
 stated "that besides the free courses 
 given for the general public there may be 
 others given, more erudite and particular, 
 for students," the trustee, in 1866, en- 
 tered into an engagement with the Massa-
 
 ROGERS BUILDING 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
 The Lowell Institute 43 
 
 chusetts Institute of Technology, whereby 
 any persons, male or female, might, with- 
 out expense to themselves, attend courses 
 of lectures for more advanced students ; 
 the appointment of the lecturers and 
 the subjects of the lectures to be made 
 with the approval of the trustee. These 
 courses are generally given in the evening, 
 in the class-room of the professors ; from 
 year to year they are more or less varied, 
 in their entire scope including instruction 
 in mathematics, mechanics, physics, draw- 
 ing, chemistry, geology, natural history, 
 biology, English, French, German, history, 
 navigation and nautical astronomy, archi- 
 tecture and engineering. Of these lect- 
 ures (known as the Lowell free courses 
 of instruction in the Institute of Technol- 
 ogy) there have been given, during the 
 thirty-one years of their existence, four 
 thousand two hundred and sixty-five. 
 The only conditions of attendance on these 
 courses are : first, candidates must have 
 attained the age of eighteen years ; sec- 
 ondly, their applications must be made
 
 44 , The Lowell Institute 
 
 in writing, addressed to the secretary of 
 the faculty of the Institute of Technol- 
 ogy, specifying the course or courses they 
 desire to attend, mentioning their present 
 or prospective occupation and the extent 
 of their preliminary training. 
 
 For many years past the Lowell Insti- 
 tute has also furnished instruction in 
 science to the school-teachers of Boston, 
 both by lessons and lectures, under the 
 supervision of the Boston Society of Nat- 
 ural History, and more recently has fur- 
 nished instruction by lectures to working- 
 men under the auspices of the Wells 
 Memorial Workingmen's Institute, upon 
 practical and scientific subjects. For the 
 purpose of promoting industrial art in 
 the United States, the trustee, in 1872, 
 also established the Lowell School ,of 
 Practical Design. The corporation of the 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 having approved the purpose and general 
 plan of the trustee of the Lowell Insti- 
 tute, assumed the responsibility of con- 
 ducting it ; and in the same year the first
 
 HUNTINGTON HALL 
 Rogers Building
 
 The Lowell Institute 45 
 
 pupils were admitted. The expenses of 
 this school are borne by the Lowell Insti- 
 tute, and tuition is free to all pupils. 
 The school occupies a drawing-room and 
 a weaving-room on Garrison Street. The 
 weaving-room affords students opportuni- 
 ties for working their designs into actual 
 fabrics of commercial size, in every variety 
 of material and of texture. The room is 
 supplied with two fancy chain-looms for 
 dress goods, three fancy chain-looms for 
 fancy woollen cassimeres, one gingham 
 loom and one Jacquard loom. The school 
 is constantly supplied with samples of all 
 the novelties in textile fabrics, such as 
 brocaded silks, ribbons, armures, and fancy 
 woollen goods. Students are taught the 
 art of making patterns for prints, ging- 
 hams, silks, laces, paper hangings, carpets, 
 oil-cloth, etc. The course is of three 
 years' duration, and embraces (i) techni- 
 cal manipulations ; (2) copying and varia- 
 tions of designs ; (3) original designs or 
 composition of patterns, ; (4) the making 
 of working drawings and finishing of de-
 
 46 The Lowell Institute 
 
 signs. Instruction is given personally to 
 each student over his work, with occa- 
 sional general exercises. Information re- 
 garding this school is also obtained from 
 the secretary of the Institute of Technol- 
 ogy. The school has been most successful, 
 and in its practical results and extensive 
 influence is one of the noblest and most 
 helpful of the Lowell Institute's great 
 benefactions. 
 
 Such is the history of a truly noble en- 
 dowment, which has been well defined as 
 " a public beneficence to be kept in the 
 Lowell family and dispensed by it for the 
 public good." 
 
 The few sentences "penned with a tired 
 hand " by John Lowell, Jr., on the top of 
 a palace of the Pharaohs, were the expres- 
 sion of a great and liberal spirit in its last 
 aspiration for the welfare of home and 
 native land. 
 
 As we leave with our readers, in con- 
 clusion, the complete list of the lectures 
 and lecturers of these fifty-nine years, 
 reflecting that we have seen only its first
 
 The Lowell Institute 47 
 
 half-century of existence, with the know- 
 ledge that so long as time lasts this 
 memorial of Mr. Lowell's interest in our 
 higher life will abide, we can but feel that 
 it already has fulfilled what Mr. Everett 
 in his opening address said it must ac- 
 complish. 
 
 " Let the foundation of Mr. Lowell's," 
 he exclaimed, " stand on the principles 
 prescribed by him ; let the fidelity with 
 which it is now administered continue to 
 direct it; and no language is emphatic 
 enough to do full justice to its impor- 
 tance. It will be from generation to gen- 
 eration a perennial source of public good, 
 a dispensation of sound science, of useful 
 knowledge, of truth in its important asso- 
 ciations with the destiny of man. These 
 are blessings which cannot die. They will 
 abide when the sands of the desert shall 
 have covered what they have hitherto 
 spared of the Egyptian temples ; and 
 they will render the name of Lowell, in 
 all wise and moral estimation, more truly 
 illustrious than that of any Pharaoh en-
 
 4 8 
 
 The Lowell Institute 
 
 graven on their walls. These endow- 
 ments belong to the empire of the mind, 
 which alone of human things is immortal ; 
 and they will remain as a memorial of his 
 Christian liberality, when all that is ma- 
 terial shall have vanished as a scroll." 
 
 PLAN OF HUNT1NGTON HALL
 
 A List of Lecturers and the Subjects of 
 their Lectures in the Lowell Institute,* 
 1839-1: 
 
 No. of Lectures ... , i * QQQ AA No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Dec - 31 > 1839-40 G l ven 
 
 I (r)t Hon. Edward Everett, LL.D. 
 
 Introductory. Memoir of John 
 
 Lowell, Jr 2 
 
 I2(r) Prof. Benjamin Silliman, LL.D. 
 
 Geology 24 
 
 8 Rev. John G. Palfrey, D.D. 
 
 Evidences of Christianity . . 8 
 9(r) Prof. Thomas Nuttall, A.M. 
 
 Botany 18 
 
 1840-41 
 
 I2(r) Prof. Joseph Lovering, A.M. 
 
 Electricity and Electro-magnetism 24 
 iz(r) Jeffries Wyman, M.D. 
 
 Comparative Anatomy ... 24 
 12 Rev. James Walker, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 I2(r) Prof. Benjamin Silliman, LL.D. 
 
 Chemistry 24 
 
 * Lectures maintained by the Lowell Institute, but not immediately 
 under its own management, are not included in this list (see pp. 42-46). 
 The titles of the lecturers and their subjects as here given are as a rule 
 those submitted for public announcement by the lecturers themselves. 
 
 t (r) signifies that the lectures were repeated before a second audience.
 
 50 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 8 Rev. John G. Palfrey, D.D. 
 
 Evidences of Christianity . . 8 
 
 1841-42 
 iz(r) Charles Lyell, F.R.S. 
 
 Geology 24 
 
 8 Rev. John G. Palfrey, D.D. 
 
 Evidences of Christianity . . 8 
 12 (r) Prof. Joseph Levering, A.M. 
 
 Mechanical Laws of Matter . . 24 
 12 Rev. James Walker, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 I2(r) Prof. Benjamin Silliman, LL.D. 
 
 Chemistry 24 
 
 1842-43 
 
 I2(r) Prof. J. Lovering, A.M. 
 
 Astronomy 24 
 
 12 Prof. Jared Sparks, LL.D. 
 
 American History 12 
 
 12 Prof. J. Walker, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 I2(r) Prof. B. Silliman, LL.D. 
 
 Chemistry 24 
 
 1843-44 
 1 2 (r) George R. Glidden, Esq. 
 
 Ancient Egypt ..... 24
 
 The Lowell Institute 51 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 (r) Prof. J. Levering, A.M. 
 
 Optics 24 
 
 12 Pres. Mark Hopkins, D.D. 
 
 Evidences of Christianity . . 12 
 I2(r) Prof. Asa Gray, M.D. 
 
 Botany 24 
 
 1844-45 
 
 1 2 (r) Arthur Gilman, Esq. 
 
 Architecture 24 
 
 I2(r) Prof. Henry D. Rogers, F.G.S. 
 
 Geology 24 
 
 12 Prof. Alonzo Potter, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 I2(r) Prof. Asa Gray, M.D. 
 
 Botany 24 
 
 1845-46 
 
 I2(r) Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S. 
 
 Geology 24 
 
 1 2 (r) i . Lieut. H. W. Halleck, United States 
 Army. 
 
 The Military Art 13 
 
 12 (r) Prof. Asa Gray, M.D. 
 
 Botany 24 
 
 12 (r) Prof. Joseph Lovering, A.M. 
 
 Astronomy 24
 
 52 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures 1 QACAI* No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 (r) Prof. Henry D. Rogers, F.G.S. 
 
 Geology 24 
 
 12 Rt. Rev. A. Potter, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 12 (r) Prof. Louis Agassiz, M.D. 
 
 The Plan of Creation as shown 
 in the Animal Kingdom. One 
 
 French Lecture 25 
 
 1 2 (r) Prof. O. M. Mitchell. 
 
 Astronomy 24 
 
 1 2 Geo. S. Hillard, Esq. 
 
 Life and Writings of Milton . . 12 
 
 1847-48 
 
 1 2 (r) Prof. Eben N. Horsford. 
 
 Chemistry 24 
 
 12 Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 1 2 (r) Prof. L. Agassiz, 
 
 Ichthyology 24 
 
 8 Francis Bowen, A.M. 
 
 Systems of Philosophy as affect- 
 ing Religion 8 
 
 1848-49 
 
 1 2 (r) Prof. Adolphus L. Kceppen. 
 
 Ancient and Modern Athens . 24
 
 The Lowell Institute 53 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 1 2 (r) Prof. L. Agassiz. 
 
 Comparative Embryology . . 24 
 12 (r) Prof. Jeffries Wyman, M.D. 
 
 Comparative Physiology ... 24 
 12 Prof. Francis Bowen, A.M. 
 
 Application of Ethical Science to 
 
 the Evidences of Religion . . 12 
 1 2 (r) Prof. Henry D. Rogers. 
 
 Application of Science to the Use- 
 ful Arts 24 
 
 1849-50 
 I2(r) Prof. Wm. H. Harvey, M.D. 
 
 Cryptogamia 24 
 
 12 Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 1 2 Geo. T. Curtis, Esq. 
 
 Constitution of the United States 1 2 
 1 2 (r) Prof. Edward Lasell. 
 
 Physical Forces 24 
 
 12 (r) Prof. James F. W. Johnston, F.R.S. 
 
 Agriculture 24 
 
 1850-51 
 12 Prof. Francis Bowen, A.M. 
 
 Political Economy . . . . 12 
 12 Prof. L. Agassiz. 
 
 Functions of Life in Lower Ani- 
 mals . 1 2
 
 54 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Rev. Geo. W. Blagden, D.D. 
 
 Evidences of Revealed Religion . 1 2 
 12 Prof. Arnold Guyot, Ph.D. 
 
 Physical Geography . . . . 12 
 
 1851-52 
 12 Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion. " Problem of 
 
 Human Destiny " . . . . 12 
 12 Prof. C. C. Felton, LL.D. 
 
 Greek Poetry 12 
 
 12 B. A. Gould, Jr., Ph.D. The Progress of 
 Astronomy in the last Half- 
 century 12 
 
 12 Francis Bowen, A.M. 
 
 Origin and Development of the 
 English and American Consti- 
 tutions 12 
 
 1852-53 
 12 Sir Charles Lyell, F.R.S. 
 
 Geology, etc 12 
 
 1 2 Chas. B. Goodrich, Esq. 
 
 Science of Government, etc. . 1 2 
 12 Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 12 Prof. C. C. Felton. 
 
 Life of Greece . . 12
 
 The Lowell Institute 55 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 ix Dr. O. W. Holmes. 
 
 English Poetry of the 191)1 
 Century 12 
 
 1853-54 
 
 10 Fellows of the American Academy of 
 
 Arts and Sciences . . . . 10 
 (*) Prof. Joseph Levering. 
 
 What is Matter ? 
 (^) Prof. Joseph Levering. 
 What are Bodies ? 
 (f) Charles Jackson, Jr. 
 
 History of the Useful Arts. 
 (</) Prof. H. L. Eustis. 
 
 The Britannia Bridge. 
 0) Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 Light. 
 (/) Prof. A. Guyot. 
 
 Psychological and Physical Char- 
 acters of the Nations of Europe 
 compared with those of the 
 American People. 
 () Prof. A. Guyot. 
 
 The same subject continued. 
 () Dr. A. A. Gould. 
 
 Aquatic Life. 
 (/) Prof. Joel Parker. 
 
 The Science of the Law.
 
 56 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 (y) Prof. H. D. Rogers. 
 
 The Arctic Regions. 
 
 12 Prof. L. Agassiz. 
 
 Natural History 12 
 
 12 Prof. J. Lovering. 
 
 Electricity 12 
 
 4 E. H. Davis. 
 
 Mounds and Earthworks of the 
 
 Mississippi Valley .... 4 
 12 Rev. Orville Dewey. 
 
 Problem of Human Destiny . . 12 
 
 1854-55 
 
 12 Prof. C. C. Felton. 
 
 On the Downfall and Resurrec- 
 tion of Greece 12 
 
 12 Hon. John G. Palfrey. 
 
 New England History . . 12 
 
 24 James Russell Lowell. 
 
 English Poetry 24 
 
 6 Rev. Frederic H. Hedge. 
 
 Mediaeval History .... 6 
 
 1855-56 
 
 1 2 Rev. Orville Dewey. 
 
 Education of the Human Race . 1 2
 
 The Lowell Institute 57 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Rev. W. H. Milburn. 
 
 Early History and Settlement of 
 
 the Mississippi Valley ... 12 
 6 Geo. W. Curtis. 
 
 Contemporaneous English Fiction 6 
 12 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 Chemistry of the Non-metallic 
 
 Elements 12 
 
 1 2 Prof. E. Vitalis Scharb. 
 
 The Great Religious and Philo- 
 sophical Poems of Modern 
 Times . 1 2 
 
 1856-57 
 
 12 Dr. Geo. W. Burnap. 
 
 Anthropology 12 
 
 6 Prof. Guglielmo Gajani. 
 
 Early Italian Reformers ... 6 
 6 Lieut. M. F. Maury. 
 
 Winds and Currents of the Sea . 6 
 12 Rev. Henry Giles. 
 
 Human Life in Shakespeare . . 12 
 6 Dr. David B. Reid. 
 
 Ventilation and Acoustics . . 6 
 12 Rev. Wm. R. Alger. 
 
 The History of the Doctrine of a 
 Future Life . 1 2
 
 58 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Prof. Wm. B. Rogers. 
 
 Elementary Laws of Physics . . 12 
 
 1857-58 
 
 12 Rev. Henry W. Bellows. 
 
 Treatment of Social Diseases . 12 
 1 2 Reinhold Solger. 
 
 History of the Reformation . . 12 
 1 2 Rev. Thomas T. Stone. 
 
 English Literature .... 12 
 12 Prof. Francis Bowen. 
 
 Practical English Philosophers and 
 Metaphysicians from Bacon to 
 Sir Wm. Hamilton . . 12 
 
 1 2 Rev. John Lord. 
 
 Lights of the New Civilization . 12 
 4 Dr. Isaac Ray. 
 
 Mental Hygiene ..... 4 
 
 1858-59 
 
 12 Prof. F. D. Huntington. 
 
 On the Structure, Relations, and 
 Offices of Human Society 
 as illustrating the Power, Wis- 
 dom, and Goodness of the 
 Creator . 1 2
 
 The Lowell Institute 
 
 59 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Prof. William B. Rogers. 
 
 On Water and Air in their Me- 
 chanical, Chemical, and Vital 
 
 Relations 12 
 
 12 Prof. S. G. Brown. 
 
 British Orators 12 
 
 8 Rev. William R. Alger. 
 
 Poetical Ethics 8 
 
 12 Edwin P. Whipple. 
 
 The Literature of the Age of 
 Elizabeth 12 
 
 1859-60 
 12 Prof. C. C. Felton. 
 
 Constitution and Orators of 
 
 Greece 12 
 
 1 2 Dr. Reinhold Solger. 
 
 Rome, Christianity, and the Rise 
 
 of Modern Civilization . . 12 
 1 2 Rev. Thomas Hill. 
 
 Mutual Relation of the Sciences . 1 2 
 12 Prof. Joseph Lovering. 
 
 Astronomy 12 
 
 12 Rev. Henry Giles. 
 
 Social Culture and Character . 1 2 
 
 1860-61 
 12 Rev. James Walker. 
 
 Philosophy of Religion ... 12
 
 6o The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of ^Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Hon. George P. Marsh. 
 
 Origin and History of the English 
 
 Language 12 
 
 I 2 Rev. Mark Hopkins. 
 
 Moral Philosophy . . . . 12 
 12 Prof. Benjamin Peirce. 
 
 Mathematics in the Cosmos . . 12 
 1 2 Prof. Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 Chemistry of the Atmosphere 
 as illustrating the Wisdom, 
 Power, and Goodness of God 1 2 
 
 1861-62 
 12 Prof. L. Agassiz. 
 
 Methods of Study in Natural 
 
 History 12 
 
 12 Rev. Geo. E. Ellis. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 12 Rev. Robert C. Waterston. 
 
 Art in Connection with Civiliza- 
 tion 12 
 
 12 Prof. Wm. B. Rogers. 
 
 Application of Science to Art . 1 2 
 12 Guglielmo Gajani. 
 
 Italian Independence . . . . 12 
 
 1862-63 
 12 Rev. Henry Giles. 
 
 Historic Types of Civilized Man 1 2
 
 The Lowell Institute 61 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Capt. William Steffen. 
 
 Military Organization ... 6 
 1 2 Charles Eliot Norton. 
 
 The Thirteenth Century ...12 
 12 Prof. Geo. W. Greene. 
 
 American Revolution ... 12 
 12 Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 6 Capt. E. Lesdakelyi. 
 
 Field Service 6 
 
 1863-64 
 1 2 Prof. Henry W. Alden. 
 
 Structure of Paganism ... 12 
 10 Prof. Daniel Wilson. 
 
 Ethnical Archaeology . . . . i o 
 6 Rev. J. C. Fletcher. 
 
 Man and Nature in the Tropics 6 
 1 2 William Everett. 
 
 The University of Cambridge, 
 
 England 12 
 
 1 2 Prof. Henry James Clark. 
 
 The Origin of Life ....12 
 12 Henry Barnard. 
 
 National Education .... 12 
 
 1864-65 
 12 Rev. Henry Giles. The Divine Element 
 
 in Human Nature . 12
 
 62 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 1 2 Rev. J. C. Zachos. 
 
 English Poets 12 
 
 1 2 Prof. William D. Whitney. 
 
 Language and the Study of Lan- 
 guage 12 
 
 3 Col. Francis J. Lippitt. 
 
 On Entrenchments .... 3 
 1 2 Prof. Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 The Sunbeam, its Nature and its 
 
 Power 12 
 
 6 J. Foster Kirk. 
 
 Life and Manners in the Middle 
 
 Ages 6 
 
 8 Prof. L. Agassiz. 
 
 Glaciers and the Ice Period . 8 
 
 1865-66 
 
 1 2 Prof. Francis Bowen. 
 
 Finances of the War . . . . 12 
 6 Rev. E. Burgess. 
 
 Indian Archaeology .... 6 
 12 Richard Frothingham. 
 
 American History, Union . . 12 
 12 Samuel Eliot, LL.D. 
 
 Evidences of Christianity . . 12 
 1 2 Prof. J. P. Lesley. 
 
 Anthropology 12
 
 The Lowell Institute 63 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 1 2 Rev. J. C. Fletcher. 
 
 Pompeii 12 
 
 6 Edward A. Samuels. 
 
 Music and its History ... 6 
 12 Prof. Joseph Levering. 
 
 Sound and Light 12 
 
 12 Prof. P. A. Chadbourne. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 4 Dr. Burt G. Wilder. 
 
 The Silk Spider of South Carolina 4 
 
 186e-67 
 
 12 Prof. L. Agassiz. 
 
 Brazil 12 
 
 12 Chas. S. Peirce, S.D. 
 
 The Logic of Science and Induc- 
 tion 12 
 
 12 T. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S. 
 
 Chemical and Physical Geography I 2 
 12 Wm. P. Atkinson. 
 
 English Literature . . . . 12 
 12 E. Geo. Squier. 
 
 The Inca Empire . . . . 12 
 12 Rev. E. Burgess. 
 
 The Antiquity of Man ... 12 
 12 R. H. Dana, Jr., LL.D. 
 
 International Law 12
 
 64 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Rev. W. L. Gage. 
 
 Biblical Geography .... 12 
 
 1867-68 
 12 Win. T. Brigham. 
 
 Volcanic Phenomena . . . . 12 
 12 Hon. Emory Washburn. 
 
 Comparative Jurisprudence . . 12 
 12 Mark Hopkins, D.D. 
 
 Moral Science 12 
 
 12 Robert Morris Copeland. 
 
 Improved Agriculture and Land- 
 scape Gardening . . . . 12 
 12 Capt. N. E. Atwood. 
 
 Fisheries of Massachusetts Bay . 1 2 
 12 Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson. 
 
 Education 12 
 
 12 Rev. A. P. Peabody. 
 
 Reminiscences of European Trav- 
 els 12 
 
 12 Howard Payson Arnold. 
 
 The Great Exposition, Paris, of 
 1867 12 
 
 1868-69 
 
 12 Robert von Schlagintweit. 
 
 Orography and Physical Geogra- 
 phy of High Asia . . . . 12
 
 The Lowell Institute 65 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Alex. Melville Bell. 
 
 Elocution 6 
 
 12 Rev. A. A. Livermore. 
 
 The Debt of the World to Chris- 
 tianity 12 
 
 1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 Electricity. ......12 
 
 1 2 Geo. W. Greene. 
 
 The American Revolution . . 12 
 
 13 Members of Massachusetts Historical So- 
 
 ciety : The Early History of 
 
 Massachusetts 13 
 
 (a) Robert C. Winthrop. 
 Introductory. 
 
 () Rev. George E. Ellis. 
 
 Aims and Objects of the Founders. 
 
 (r) Rev. George E. Ellis. 
 
 Treatment of Intruders. 
 
 (//) Samuel T. Haven. 
 
 Grants under the Great Council. 
 (*) William Brigham. 
 
 The Plymouth Colony. 
 (/*) Prof. Emory Washburn. 
 
 Slavery in Massachusetts. 
 () Rev. Charles W. Upham. 
 
 Records of Massachusetts.
 
 66 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 () Prof. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
 
 The Medical Profession in Mas- 
 sachusetts. 
 (/') Samuel Eliot. 
 
 Efforts for the Indians, 
 (y) Rev. Chandler Robbins. 
 
 The Regicides. 
 () Prof. Joel Parker. 
 
 Religious Legislation. 
 (/) Rev. Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 Puritan Politics. 
 (z) George B. Emerson. 
 
 Education in Massachusetts. 
 
 12 Rev. Ed. A. Lawrence. 
 
 Providence in History . . 12 
 
 12 Alexander Hyde, A.M. 
 
 Agriculture 12 
 
 6 Dr. F. G. Lemercier. 
 
 Physiology of Man, Animals, and 
 Plants 6 
 
 1869-70 
 12 Prof. L. Agassiz. 
 
 Deep Sea Dredging . . . . 12 
 12 John Bascom. 
 
 Mental Philosophy . . . . 12 
 12 Wm. H. Channing. 
 
 Progress of Civilization . . 12
 
 The Lowell Institute 67 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 W. H. Niks. 
 
 Geological History, Ancient and 
 
 Modern 12 
 
 1 2 Hurt G. Wilder. 
 
 Hands and Feet of Mammalia . 1 2 
 12 Rev. E. E. Hale. 
 
 Divine Method in Human Life . 12 
 12 Members of the American Social Science 
 
 Association 12 
 
 O) C. C. Perkins. 
 
 Art Education in the United States. 
 (J) F. L. Olmsted. 
 Public Parks, 
 (f) Prof. Francis Bacon. 
 
 Civilization and Health. 
 (</) Gen. T. A. Duncan. 
 
 The American System of Patents. 
 0) Prof. D. C. Gilman. 
 
 Scientific Technical Instruction. 
 (/) Prof. B. Peirce. 
 
 The Coast Survey. 
 () Prof. Raphael Pumpelly. 
 
 The Chinese Question. 
 () E. L. Godkin. 
 
 Rationalism in Legislation. 
 (;') William B. Ogden. 
 
 Material Growth of the North- 
 west.
 
 68 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 (j) George Derby, M.D. 
 
 Air in its Relation to Health. 
 (J) Pres. T. D. Woolsey. 
 
 The Sphere of Public Power. 
 (/) David Dudley Field. 
 
 The Representation of Minorities. 
 
 1 2 Albert S. Bickmore. 
 
 China and the Chinese ... 12 
 
 1870-71 
 12 Alex. M. Bell. 
 
 Shakespeare and his Plays . . 12 
 12 Wm. D. Howells. 
 
 Italian Poets of Our Century . 1 2 
 1 2 Edward S. Morse. 
 
 Natural History 12 
 
 12 Thomas Hill, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Natural Sources of Theology . 12 
 12 Rev. Geo. E. Ellis. 
 
 The Provincial History of Mas- 
 sachusetts 12 
 
 12 Rev. R. C. Waterston. 
 
 -N The Rocky Mountains and the 
 
 Sierra Nevada of California . 1 2 
 12 Prof. Geo. P. Fisher. 
 
 The Reformation 12 
 
 1 2 Pres. Paul A. Chadbourne. 
 
 Instinct 1 2
 
 The Lowell Institute 69 
 
 No. of Lectures i QTI "o No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 1 2 Edward Lawrence. 
 
 The Philosophy of Travel . . 12 
 12 Alex. M. Bell. 
 
 Modern British Authors ... 12 
 12 Wm. T. Brigham. 
 
 Water as a Geological Agent . 1 2 
 1 2 Charles C. Perkins. 
 
 Grecian Art 12 
 
 12 Rev. Mark Hopkins. 
 
 An Outside Study of Man . . 12 
 12 Chas. F. Hart. 
 
 Geology of Brazil 12 
 
 12 N. S. Shaler. 
 
 Geology of Mountain Ranges . 1 2 
 12 Wm. P. Atkinson. 
 
 English Literature . . . . 12 
 
 1872-73 
 
 6 Prof. John Tyndall. 
 
 Light and Heat . . . , . 6 
 1 2 Walter Smith. 
 
 Linear Perspective . . . . 12 
 1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 The New Chemistry ... 12 
 12 Sanborn Tenney. 
 
 The Physical Structure and Re- 
 sources of United States 1 2
 
 yo The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Isaac I. Hayes, M.D. 
 
 Arctic Discoveries . . . . 12 
 12 Hon. B. G. Northrop. 
 
 American and Foreign Education 1 2 
 12 Prof. G. L. Goodale. 
 
 Vegetable Physiology . . 12 
 
 12 B. W. Hawkins. 
 
 Comparative Anatomy . . 12 
 
 4 C. E. Brown-Sequard. 
 
 Physiology of Mental Faculties . 4 
 
 1873-74 
 1 2 Richard A. Proctor. 
 
 Astronomy 12 
 
 6 J. T. Fields, Esq. 
 
 Modern English Literature . . 6 
 1 2 Prof. John Bascom. 
 
 Philosophy of English Literature 12 
 12 Prof. E. C. Pickering. 
 
 Practical Applications of Elec- 
 tricity 12 
 
 12 Prof. Samuel Kneeland. 
 
 Rocky Mts., California, and 
 
 Sandwich Islands . . . . 12 
 6 C. E. Brown-Sequard, M.D. 
 
 Nervous Force 6 
 
 12 Chas. C. Perkins, A.M. 
 
 Italian Art 1 2
 
 The Lowell Institute 71 
 
 No. of Lectures lfi"d 7 1 ; ^- ^ Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D. 
 
 Christianity and Science ... 12 
 3 Prof. Bonamy Price. 
 
 Currency and Finance ... 3 
 I 2 John Trowbridge. 
 
 Recent Advances in Electricity . 1 2 
 6 Prof. Samuel Kneeland. 
 
 Iceland 6 
 
 12 C. F. Adams, Jr., Esq. 
 
 Railroads and their Development 1 2 
 12 Prof. W. H. Niles. 
 
 The Atmosphere and its Phe- 
 nomena 12 
 
 12 Rev. H. G. Spaulding. 
 
 Antiquities of Rome, Christian 
 and Pagan 12 
 
 5 John T. Wood, B.A., F.R.S. 
 
 The Great Temple of Diana . 5 
 
 1875-76 
 
 I 2 Richard A. Proctor. 
 
 Astronomical Subjects . . 12 
 
 1 2 Rev. W. L. Gage. 
 
 Wayside Notes in Palestine . . 12 
 
 6 Wm. A. Hovey, Esq. 
 
 Coal, Steam, Iron, Steel, Gas, 
 and Glass . 6
 
 72 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lecture* 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 F. B. Hough, Esq. 
 
 Forestry ....... 6 
 
 12 Prof. S. Tenney. 
 
 Geology 12 
 
 12 Prof. C. A. Young. 
 
 Popular Astronomy . . . . 12 
 12 Prof. Geo. P. Fisher. 
 
 The Rise of Christianity ...12 
 1 2 Rev. James T. Bixby. 
 
 The Physical Theory of Religious 
 Faith 12 
 
 1876-77 
 
 12* Prof. C. E. Norton. 
 
 Church Building in the Middle 
 
 Ages 12 
 
 6 Luigi Monti. 
 
 Modern Italian Literature . . 6 
 12 Pres. P. A. Chadbourne. 
 
 Natural Religion 12 
 
 1 2 Members of the American Social Science 
 
 Association 12 
 
 (4) Samuel Eliot. 
 
 Educational Service Reform. 
 
 * Prof. Norton began this course the previous year, but on account 
 of his ill health the course was postponed, after two lectures, to the season 
 of 1876-77.
 
 The Lowell Institute 73 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 (J) Prof. B. Peirce. 
 
 Form, Law, and Plan in the 
 
 Universe. 
 (<) F. B. Sanborn. 
 
 The Province of Social Science. 
 (</) Emory Washburn. 
 
 American Jurisprudence. 
 (0 David A. Wells. 
 
 Financial Depressions. 
 (/) Pres. Runkle. 
 
 Russian Industrial Education. 
 () Gamaliel Bradford. 
 
 Comparative Politics. 
 () Prof. Franz von Holtzendorff. 
 
 European Jurisprudence. 
 (/) Prof. W. R. Nichols. 
 
 Sanitary Chemistry. 
 ( Carroll D. Wright. 
 
 The Census of Massachusetts. 
 () Prof. Henry Adams. 
 
 Woman's Rights in History. 
 (/) Prof. F. A. Walker. 
 
 The Labor question. 
 
 6 Prof. N. Cyr. 
 
 Contemporary France ... 6 
 12 Rev. H. G. Spaulding. 
 
 Roman and Pagan Life in the 
 First Century 12
 
 74 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Prof. Wm. R. Ware. 
 
 Architecture 12 
 
 1 2 Rev. Edward C. Guild. 
 
 English Lyric Poetry in the 
 
 Seventeenth Century . . 12 
 
 1 2 Prof. Francis J. Child. 
 
 Chaucer 12 
 
 1877-78 
 
 12 Prof. Carl Semper. 
 
 Conditions of Existence of Ani- 
 mal Life 12 
 
 1 2 Bayard Taylor. 
 
 German Literature . . . . 12 
 1 2 Gamaliel Bradford, Esq. 
 
 History of British India ... 12 
 12 Wm. Everett. 
 
 Latin Poets and Poetry ... 12 
 12 Chas. C. Perkins. 
 
 History of the Art of Engraving . 1 2 
 
 1878-79 
 
 6 Prof. Wm. James, M.D. 
 
 The Brain and the Mind . . 6 
 1 2 Rev. Selah Merrill. 
 
 Recent Explorations of the East . 1 2 
 6 Chas. S. Minot, S.D. 
 
 The Phenomena of Animal Life . 6
 
 The Lowell Institute 75 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr. 
 
 Crystals and their Optical Rela- 
 tions 12 
 
 6 Chas. Wyllis Elliott. 
 
 Household Life and Art in Middle 
 
 Ages 6 
 
 4 Gen. L. P. Di Cesnola. 
 
 Cyprus, its Ancient Art and His- 
 tory 4 
 
 1 2 Prof. Francis A. Walker. 
 
 Money 12 
 
 1 2 Prof. Francis J. Child. 
 
 Popular Ballads of England and 
 
 Scotland 12 
 
 6 Prof. Benj. Peirce. 
 
 Ideality in the Physical Sciences . 6 
 12 Rev. Geo. E. Ellis, D.D. 
 
 The Red Man and the White 
 
 Man 12 
 
 6 Thomas Davidson, Esq. 
 
 Modern Greece 6 
 
 1879-80 
 
 6 Prof. Archibald Geikie. 
 
 Geographical Evolution ... 6 
 12 Prof. Joseph Levering. 
 
 Physical Science 12
 
 j6 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Prof. W. G. Farlow. 
 
 Lower Orders of Plant Life . . 12 
 1 2 Prof. John Trowbridge. 
 
 Philosophy of Science ... 12 
 2 Rt. Hon. Lyon Playfair, M.P., F.R.S., LL.D. 
 () Inosculation of the Arts and 
 
 Sciences. 
 
 (J) Public Health .... 2 
 6 Hon. Carroll D. Wright. 
 
 The Labor Question Ethically 
 
 considered 6 
 
 12 Prof. W. H. Niles. 
 
 Physical Geography of the Land 1 2 
 12 Rev. J. F. Clarke, D.D. 
 
 Epochs and Events in Religious 
 
 History 12 
 
 6 Prof. Henry W. Haynes. 
 
 Pre-historic Archaeology of Europe 2 
 1 2 Prof. J. L. Diman. 
 
 The Theistic Argument ... 12 
 6 Henry Cabot Lodge, Esq. 
 
 English Colonies in America, 
 1760 6 
 
 1880-81 
 
 1 2 Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins. 
 
 Primeval Man . .... 1 2
 
 The Lowell Institute 77 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Luigi Monti. 
 
 Dante, and his Times and Works 6 
 6 Wm. F. Apthorp. 
 
 The Growth of the Art of 
 
 Music 6 
 
 12 O. W. Holmes, Jr. 
 
 The Common Law . . . . 12 
 4 Geo. Makepeace Towle. 
 
 Famous Men of Our Day . . 4 
 6 Thomas Davidson. 
 
 The History of Greek Sculpture . 6 
 6 Chas. Carleton Coffin. 
 
 Machinery and Modern Civiliza- 
 tion 6 
 
 12 Rev. E. C. Bolles. 
 
 Historic London 12 
 
 3 G. P. Lathrop. 
 
 Symbolism of Color in Nature, 
 Art, Literature, and Life . . 3 
 
 10 Rev. Richard Salter Storrs, D.D. 
 
 The Divine Origin of Christianity I o 
 
 6 Prof. M. Coit Tyler. 
 
 American Literature of the Revo- 
 lution 6 
 
 i Rev. W. H. Milburn. 
 
 Recollections of Thomas Carlyle I
 
 7 8 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures , OQ1 fio No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L. 
 
 The English People in their Three 
 
 Homes 6 
 
 12 Gamaliel Bradford, Esq. 
 
 Modern Europe, Social and Poli- 
 tical 12 
 
 12 Prof. Simon Newcomb. 
 
 History of Astronomy ... 12 
 
 8 James Bryce, D.C.L., M.P. 
 
 Past and Present of the Greek and 
 Turkish East 8 
 
 1 2 Prof. Edward S. Morse. 
 
 Japan 12 
 
 6 Edward B. Drew, A.M. 
 
 China 6 
 
 12 James F. Clarke, D.D. 
 
 The Comparative Theology of 
 Ethnic and Catholic Religions 12 
 
 6 Hjalmar H. Boyesen, Ph.D. 
 
 The Icelandic Saga Literature . 6 
 
 6 Horace E. Scudder. 
 
 Childhood in Literature and Art 6
 
 The Lowell Institute 79 
 
 No. of Lectures IQQO QQ No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced 188<!-8iJ Given 
 
 1 2 Wm. B. Carpenter, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 
 Physical Geography of the Deep 
 
 Sea 12 
 
 12 Prof. G. L. Goodale. 
 
 Geographical Botany .... 12 
 6 Prof. T. C. Mendenhall. 
 
 Motion and Matter .... 6 
 12 Dr. Samuel Kneeland. 
 
 The Philippine Islands ... 12 
 3 W. M. Davis. 
 
 Storms 3 
 
 2 J. W. Fewkes. 
 
 Jelly Fishes 2 
 
 12 Prof. Samuel P. Langley. 
 
 The Sun and Stars . . . . 12 
 1 2 Prof. James T. Bixby. 
 
 Inductive Philosophy of Religion 1 2 
 6 Prof. Frederick W. Putnam. 
 
 American Archeology ... 6 
 
 1883-84 
 
 1 2 Rev. J. G. Wood. 
 
 Structure of Animal Life ... 12 
 12 Prof. E. S. Morse. 
 
 Japan 12
 
 8o The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 iz Prof. Chas. R. Cross. 
 
 Sound . . . . . . . . . 12 
 
 6 Mr. W. M. Davis. 
 
 Winds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes 6 
 1 2 Dr. T. Sterry Hunt. 
 
 Mineral Physiology . . . . 12 
 
 6 Mr. Geo. Kennan. 
 
 Asiatic Russia 6 
 
 10 Rev. Edward C. Mitchell. 
 
 Biblical Science and Modern Dis- 
 covery 10 
 
 6 Dr. Morris Longstreth. 
 
 The Germ Theory of Disease . 6 
 
 1884-85 
 
 6 Prof. R. S. Ball, LL.D., F.R.S. 
 
 Chapters on Modern Astronomy 6 
 6 Dr. Thomas D wight. 
 
 The Mechanics of Bone and 
 
 Muscle 6 
 
 6 Prof. Edmund W. Gosse. 
 
 The Transition from Shakespeare 
 
 to Pope 6 
 
 6 Dr. David G. Brinton. 
 
 North American Indians ... 6 
 6 Frederick A. Ober. 
 
 Mexico and its People ... 6
 
 The Lowell Institute 81 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Rev. Leighton Parks. 
 
 Christianity and the Early Aryan 
 
 Religions 6 
 
 6 Edward Stanwood, Esq. 
 
 Early Party Contests .... 6 
 12 Gen. F. A. Walker. 
 
 The United States as Seen in the 
 
 Census 12 
 
 6 John C. Ropes, Esq. 
 
 The First Napoleon .... 6 
 
 1885-86 
 
 7 Rev. H. R. Haweis. 
 
 Music and Morals .... 7 
 
 8 Prof. James R. Soley, U.S.N. 
 
 The American Navy .... 8 
 6 Thomas D. Lockwood. 
 
 The Electric Telegraph and Tele- 
 phone 6 
 
 6 A. G. Sedgwick, Esq. 
 
 Law 6 
 
 1 2 Prof. Francis J. Child. 
 
 Early English Poetry . . . . 12 
 8 Rev. James De Normandie. 
 
 The Sunday Question ... 8 
 12 Prof. Chas. A. Young. 
 
 Popular Astronomy . . . . 12
 
 82 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 1 2 (r) Officers of Both Armies. 
 
 The Late Civil War. (Lecturers 
 selected by the Military Hist- 
 orical Society of Massachusetts) 1 2 
 
 (/?) Gen. Charles Devens. 
 
 Introductory. 
 (J) Col. J. Hotchkiss. 
 
 Pope's Campaign, 
 (c) Gen. G. H. Gordon. 
 
 Antietam. 
 (</) Col. Theodore A. Dodge. 
 
 Chancellorsville. 
 0) Col. W. Allan. 
 
 Stonewall Jackson. 
 (/) Gen. Francis A. Walker. 
 
 Gettysburg. 
 () Col. T. L. Livermore. 
 
 The Northern Volunteers. 
 () Major H. Kyd Douglass. 
 
 The Southern Volunteers. 
 (/') Gen. Wm. F. Smith. 
 
 Chattanooga. 
 (_/') John C. Ropes, Esq. 
 
 The Campaign of 1 864. 
 
 (/*) Col. Henry Stone. 
 
 Franklin and Nashville.
 
 The Lowell Institute 83 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 (/) Col. Frederick C. Newhall. 
 
 The Last Campaign .... 24 
 
 1886-87 
 
 8 Alfred Russell Wallace, LL.D. 
 
 Darwinism and some of its Ap- 
 plications 8 
 
 1 2 Prof. Rodolfo Lanciani. 
 
 Recent Archaeological Discoveries 
 
 in Rome 12 
 
 6 Sir J. William Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S. 
 The Development of Plants in 
 
 Geological Times .... 6 
 6 Wm. F. Apthorp, Esq. 
 
 Music 6 
 
 4 Dr. Leonard Waldo. 
 
 Horology 4 
 
 8 Geo. M. Towle, Esq. 
 
 Foreign Governments ... 8 
 6 Mr. Henry A. Clapp. 
 
 Shakespearean Dramas ... 6 
 6 (r) James Russell Lowell. 
 
 Early English Dramatists ... 12 
 
 1887-88 
 
 6 (r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp. 
 
 Dramas of Shakespeare ... 12
 
 84 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke. 
 
 Necessary Limitation of Scientific 
 
 Thought 12 
 
 8 Rev. G. Frederick Wright. 
 
 The Ice Age in North America . 8 
 6 James R. Gilmore. 
 
 The Early Southwest .... 6 
 8 John S. Billings, M.D., U.S.A. 
 
 The History of Medicine . . 8 
 8 Prof. James Russell Soley, U.S.N. 
 
 European Neutrality during the 
 
 Civil War 8 
 
 6 Prof. D. G. Lyon. 
 
 Ancient Assyrian Life ... 6 
 6 Prof. George L. Goodale. 
 
 Forests and Forest Products . . 6 
 
 1888-89 
 
 8 Prof. Charles H. Moore. 
 
 Gothic Architecture .... 8 
 6 Ivan Panin. 
 
 Russian Literature .... 6 
 4 Eadweard Muybridge. 
 
 Animal Locomotion .... 4 
 8 Prof. N. S. Shaler. 
 
 Geographical Conditions and Life 8 
 6 Wm. Bradford, Esq. 
 
 Wonders of the Polar World . 6
 
 The Lowell Institute 85 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Col. Theodore A. Dodge. 
 
 Great Captains 6 
 
 8 Richard Salter Storrs, D.D. 
 
 Bernard of Clairvaux .... 8 
 6 George Kennan. 
 
 Eastern Siberia 6 
 
 8 Prof. Edward S. Morse. 
 
 Peoples and Institutions Abroad . 8 
 
 1889-90 
 
 8 Prof. Edward D. Cope. 
 
 The Evolution of the Vertebrata 8 
 2 Carl Lumholtz, M.A. 
 
 Amopg Australian Natives . . 2 
 8 C. C. Coffin. 
 
 The Unwritten and Secret His- 
 tory of the Late Confederacy . 8 
 6 Prof. Thomas M. Drown. 
 
 Water Supply in its Relation to 
 
 Public Health 6 
 
 8 Prof. William G. Farlow. 
 
 Lower Forms of Plant Life . . 8 
 12 John Fiske, Litt.D., LL.D. 
 
 The Discovery and Colonization 
 
 of America 12 
 
 8 Louis Dyer, Esq. 
 
 The Gods in Greece as Known 
 by Recent Excavations . . 8
 
 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 7 Augustus Le Plongeon, M.D. 
 
 Ancient American Civilization . 7 
 6 Prof. William Rotch Ware. 
 
 Equestrian Monuments ... 6 
 
 1890-91 
 
 6 Hon. John A. Kasson, LL.D. 
 
 Diplomacy and Diplomatists . . 6 
 
 7 Louis Fagan. 
 
 Treasures of the British Museum 7 
 
 8 Prof. Barrett Wendell. 
 
 English Composition .... 8 
 8(r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp. 
 
 Dramas and Sonnets of Shake- 
 speare 1 6 
 
 8 Prof. Charles E. Munroe. 
 
 Explosive Substances .... 8 
 6 George M. Towle. 
 
 The Era of Elizabeth ... 6 
 8 Francis G. Peabody, D.D. 
 
 The Ethics of the Social Question 8 
 10 Prof. James Geikie, D.C.L., LL.D., 
 
 F.R.S. 
 Europe During and After the Ice 
 
 Age 10 
 
 3 A. Lawrence Rotch, S.B. 
 
 Mountain Meteorology ... 3
 
 The Lowell Institute 87 
 
 No. of Lectures , Q QI no No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced 188J1-94 Giyen 
 
 6 Oliver W. Huntington, Ph.D. 
 
 Meteorites 6 
 
 6 Charles W. Eliot. 
 
 Recent Educational Changes and 
 
 Tendencies 6 
 
 8 Charles Valentine Riley, Ph.D. 
 
 Entomology 8 
 
 8 Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D. 
 
 The Evolution of Christianity . 8 
 8 William Everett, Ph.D., Litt.D. 
 
 Saints and Saintly Service . . 8 
 8 Prof. A. V. G. Allen, D.D. 
 
 Christian Institutions ; their Ori- 
 gin, Development and Results 8 
 10 Prof. G. Frederick Wright. 
 
 The Origin and Antiquity of the 
 
 Human Race 10 
 
 6 George L. Fox, M.A. 
 
 The Public Schools of England . 6 
 8 John Murray, Ph.D. 
 
 Oceanography 8 
 
 1892-93 
 
 4 (r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp. 
 
 Dramas of Shakespeare 
 6 Prof. T. C. Mendenhall. 
 
 Earth Measuring .
 
 88 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Mr. C. S. Peirce. 
 
 The History of Science ... I z 
 8 Prof. Josiah P. Cooke, LL.D. 
 
 Photograph Sketches of Egypt . 8 
 6 Louis C. Elson. 
 
 Music, its Origin and Develop- 
 ment 6 
 
 6 George H. Martin, A.M. 
 
 Evolution of the Massachusetts 
 School System ...... 6 
 
 12 Prof. George L. Goodale. 
 
 Ceylon, Java, Australia, and New 
 Zealand I z 
 
 8 Prof. Charles R. Cross. 
 
 The Acoustic Phenomena Under- 
 lying Music 8 
 
 9 A. Lawrence Lowell, Esq. 
 
 The Governments of Central 
 
 Europe 9 
 
 6 Prof. Gaetano Lanza. 
 
 Engineering Practice and Educa- 
 tion 6 
 
 12 Prof. Henry Drummond, LL.D., 
 
 F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 
 
 The Evolution of Man . . . 1 8 
 The last six repeated.
 
 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures 1000 a A No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 4 (r) Protap Chunder Mozoomdar. 
 
 The Religious and Social Life of 
 
 India 8 
 
 1 2 Prof. Charles R. Cross. 
 
 Modern Uses of Electricity . . 12 
 6 George L. Fox, M.A. 
 
 English Public Schools ... 6 
 6 Prof. Gaetano Lanza. 
 
 The Strength of Materials . . 6 
 6 Prof. William T. Sedgwick. 
 
 Bacteriology 6 
 
 8 S. R. Koehler. 
 
 Engraving 8 
 
 6 Sir J. William Dawson, LL.D.,F.R.S. 
 The Meeting Place of Geology 
 
 and History 6 
 
 3 Carl Lumholtz, M.A. 
 
 The Characteristics of the Cave 
 
 Dwellers of the Sierra Madre . 3 
 8 Prof. Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S. 
 
 The Colors of Animals ... 8 
 8 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh. 
 
 The Native Races of North 
 
 America 8 
 
 1 2 Prof. H. Von Hoist. 
 
 The French Revolution Tested 
 by Mirabeau's Career . . . 12
 
 90 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Percival Lowell, Esq. 
 
 Japanese Occultism .... 6 
 8 William Jewett Tucker, D.D. 
 
 The Influence of Religion To-day 8 
 
 1894-95 
 
 4(r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp. 
 
 Historical Dramas of Shakespeare 8 
 6 Prof. T. W. Rhys Davids, Ph.D., LL.D. 
 
 Buddhism 6 
 
 8 Major Wm. R. Livermore, U.S.A. 
 
 Light-house Systems .... 8 
 8 Rev. F. H. James. 
 
 China and the Chinese ... 8 
 8 Rev. Frederick H. Wines. 
 
 Crime and Criminals .... 8 
 12 John Fiske. 
 
 Early Settlement of Virginia . . 12 
 6 C. Howard Walker, F.A.I.A. 
 
 Decoration Applied to Architect- 
 ure and the Industrial Arts . 6 
 4 Percival Lowell, Esq. 
 
 The Planet Mars 4 
 
 6 Alexandre S. Chessin, Ph.D. 
 
 Russia and Russians .... 6 
 8 Philip Stafford Moxom, D.D. 
 
 The Church in the First Three 
 Centuries . . 8
 
 The Lowell Institute 91 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 8 George F. Kunz. 
 
 Precious Stones 8 
 
 8 Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D.D. 
 
 The Expansion of Religion . . 8 
 
 1895-96 
 6 Sir J. Wm. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S. 
 
 The Beginnings of Life ... 6 
 8 Prof. Arlo Bates. 
 
 The Study of Literature ... 8 
 8 Prof. Henry S. Nash, D.D. 
 
 The Establishment of Christianity 
 in Europe, in Relation to the 
 Social Question .... 8 
 4 Francis C. Lowell, Esq. 
 
 Joan of Arc 4 
 
 12 Lectures on Engineering 12 
 
 (4) Desmond Fitzgerald, Esq., C.E. 
 
 Water Supply. 
 (2) Prof. D wight Porter. 
 
 Sewerage. 
 (4) Prof. C. Frank Allen. 
 
 Roadways, Pavements, and Rail- 
 roads. 
 (2) Prof. George F. Swain. 
 
 Bridges. 
 10 Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan. 
 
 Habit and Instinct . . 10
 
 92 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Prof. John F. Weir, N.A., M.A. 
 
 Some Principal Centres and Mas- 
 ters in Art 6 
 
 8 Prince Serge Wolkonsky. 
 
 Russian History and Russian Lit- 
 erature 8 
 
 6 George W. Cable. 
 
 The Story-teller and His Art . 6 
 8 Rev. George Hodges, D.D. 
 
 Present Christian Problems . . 8 
 8 Henry P. Walcott, M.D. 
 
 State Medicine 8 
 
 8 Prof. A. E. Verrill. 
 
 Mollusca, Shell-fish and their 
 Allies 8 
 
 1896-97 
 10 Louis C. Elson. 
 
 The Symphony and the Sym- 
 phony Orchestra . . . . 10 
 8 Prof. William James, M.D. 
 
 Exceptional Mental States . . 8 
 6 Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., LL.D. 
 
 The Religions of Primitive Peo- 
 ples 6 
 
 6 Prof. Wm. Z. Ripley, Ph.D. 
 
 Anthropological History of the 
 European Races .... 6
 
 The Lowell Institute 93 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 6 Rev. G. Frederick Wright, D.D., 
 
 LL.D. 
 Scientific Aspects of Christian 
 
 Evidences 6 
 
 6(r) Henry A. Clapp, A.M. 
 
 Comedies of Shakespeare ... 12 
 8 Prof. Charles R. Cross. 
 
 The X Rays of Rontgen ... 8 
 10 Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster. 
 
 Electricity and Magnetism, Light 
 
 and the Ether 10 
 
 6 Prof. Felix Adler. 
 
 The Ethics of Marriage ... 6 
 10 Capt. A. T. Mahan, U.S.N. 
 
 Naval Warfare 10 
 
 1897-98 
 
 10 Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S. 
 
 Tides 10 
 
 6 Prof. Michael Foster, Sec. R.S. 
 
 Some Features of Brain Work . 6 
 2 Prince Kropotkin. 
 
 (</) Savages and Barbarians. 
 
 () The Mediaeval City . . 2 
 6 (r) Edward E. Hale. 
 
 The Local History and Antiqui- 
 ties of Boston , 1 2
 
 94 The Lowell Institute 
 
 No. of Lectures No. of Lectures 
 
 Announced Given 
 
 12 Prof. George Lincoln Goodale, LL.D. 
 
 Food Plants and Their Products 1 2 
 6 Rev. T. K. Cheyne, M.A., D.D. 
 
 Jewish Religious Life after the 
 
 Exile 6 
 
 10 Rev. Jean Charlemagne Bracq, A.B. 
 
 Contemporary French Literature 10 
 3 (r) Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri, Ph.D. 
 
 The Social Life of Japan ... 6 
 12 John Fiske, Litt.D., LL.D. 
 
 The Dutch and Quaker Colonies 1 2 
 
 6 Prof. William E. Story, Ph.D. 
 
 The Beginnings of Mathematics 6 
 
 7 Hon. William Everett, LL.D. 
 
 Some Poets of Our Grandfathers' 
 
 Days 7 
 
 6 Alexander McKenzie, D.D. 
 
 The Divine Force in the Life of 
 the World . 6
 
 Index 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Abbott, Lyman 87 
 
 Adams, C. F 71 
 
 Adams, Henry 73 
 
 Adler, Felix 93 
 
 Agassiz, Alexander 42 
 
 Agassiz, Louis 31, 36, 39, 52, 53, 56, 60, 62, 63, 66 
 
 Alden, Henry W. 61 
 
 Alger, William R 57, 59 
 
 Allan, W. 82 
 
 Allen, A. V. G 87 
 
 Allen, C. Frank 91 
 
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 29 
 
 Apthorp, William F 77, 83 
 
 Arnold, Howard Payson 64 
 
 Athenaeum, Boston 12 
 
 Atkinson, William P 63, 69 
 
 Atwood, E. W 64 
 
 Bacon, Francis 67 
 
 Ball, R. S 80 
 
 Barnard, Henry 61 
 
 Bascom, John 66, 70 
 
 Bates, Arlo 91 
 
 Bell, Alexander Melville 65, 68, 69 
 
 Bellows, Henry W 58 
 
 Bickmore, Albert S 68 
 
 Billings, John S 84 
 
 Bixby, James T 72, 79 
 
 Blagden, George W 54 
 
 Bolles, E. C 77 
 
 Bowen, Francis 52, 53, 54, 58, 62 
 
 95
 
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 The Lowell Institute 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Boyesen, Hjalmar H 78 
 
 Bracq, Jean Charlemagne 94 
 
 Bradford, Gamaliel 73, 74, 78 
 
 Bradford, William 84 
 
 Brigham, William 65 
 
 Brigham, William T 64, 69 
 
 Brinton, David G 80, 92 
 
 Brown, S. G 59 
 
 Brown-Sequard, G. E 70, 71 
 
 Bryce, James 78 
 
 Burgess, E 62, 63 
 
 Burnap, George W 57 
 
 Cable, George W. 92 
 
 Carleton, William T 28 
 
 Carpenter, William B 79 
 
 Chadbourne, Paul A 63,68,72 
 
 Channing, William H 66 
 
 Chessin, Alexandre S 90 
 
 Cheyne, T. K 94 
 
 Child, Francis J 74, 75, 81 
 
 Clapp, Henry A 83, 86, 87, 90, 93 
 
 Clark, Henry James 61 
 
 Clarke, James Freeman 76, 78 
 
 Coffin, Charles Carleton 77, 85 
 
 Cooke, Dr. Josiah Parsons, 31, 33, 55, 57, 60, 62, 65, 69, 75, 84, 88 
 
 Cope, Edward D 85 
 
 Copeland, Robert Morris 64 
 
 Cotting, Dr. Benjamin E 19 
 
 Cross, Charles R 80, 88, 89, 93 
 
 Curators, and duties of 18, 19, 20 
 
 Curtis, George T S3 
 
 Curtis, George William 57 
 
 Cyr, N 73 
 
 Dana, R. H 63 
 
 Darwin, G. H 93 
 
 Davids, T. W. Rhys 9
 
 Index 97 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Davidson, Thomas 75, 77 
 
 Davis, E. H 56 
 
 Davis, W. M 79, 80 
 
 Dawkins, W. Boyd 76 
 
 Dawson, J. William 83, 89, 91 
 
 Dellenbaugh, Frederick S 89 
 
 De Normandie, James 81 
 
 Derby, George 68 
 
 Devens, Charles 82 
 
 Dewey, Orville 54, 56 
 
 Di Cesnola, L. P 75 
 
 Diman, J. L 76 
 
 Dodge, Theodore A 82, 85 
 
 Donald, E. Winchester 91 
 
 Douglass, H. Kyd 82 
 
 Drew, Edward B 78 
 
 Drown, Thomas M 85 
 
 Drummond, Henry v, 32, 37, 88 
 
 Duncan, T. A 67 
 
 Dwight, Thomas 80 
 
 Dyer, Louis 85 
 
 Eliot, Charles W. 87 
 
 Eliot, Samuel 62, 66, 72 
 
 Elliott, Charles Wyllis 75 
 
 Ellis, George E 60, 65, 68, 75 
 
 Elson, Louis C 88, 92 
 
 Emerson, George B 66 
 
 Endowment. See Fund. 
 
 Eustis, H. L 55 
 
 Everett, Edward 21, 47, 49 
 
 Everett, William 61, 74, 87, 94 
 
 Fagan, Louis 86 
 
 Farlow, William G 76, 85 
 
 Felton, C. C 54, S 6 , 59 
 
 Fewkes, J. W. 79 
 
 Field, David Dudley 68 
 
 H
 
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 The Lowell Institute 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Fields, James T 70 
 
 Fisher, George P 68, 72 
 
 Fiske, John 85, 90, 94 
 
 Fitzgerald, Desmond 91 
 
 Fletcher, J. C 61, 63 
 
 Foster, Michael 93 
 
 Fox, George L 87, 89 
 
 Freeman, Edward A 78 
 
 Frothingham, Richard 62 
 
 Fund of the Lowell Institute 12, 15 30, 
 
 Gage, W. L 64, 71 
 
 Gajani, Guglielmo 57, 60 
 
 Geikie, Archibald 75 
 
 Geikie, James 86 
 
 Giles, Henry 57, 59, 60, 61 
 
 Oilman, Arthur 51 
 
 Gilman, D. C 67 
 
 Gilmore, James R 84 
 
 Glidden, George R 50 
 
 Godkin, E. L 67 
 
 Goodale, George Lincoln 70, 79, 84, 88, 94 
 
 Goodrich, Charles B 54 
 
 Gordon, G. H 82 
 
 Gosse, Edmund W. 80 
 
 Gould, A. A 55 
 
 Gould, B. A 54 
 
 Gray, Asa 51 
 
 Greene, George W 61, 65 
 
 Guild, Edward C 74 
 
 Guyot, Arnold 54, 55 
 
 Hale, Edward Everett 32, 66, 93 
 
 Halleck, H. W 51 
 
 Hart, Charles F 69 
 
 Harvey, Wm. H 53 
 
 Haven, Samuel T 65 
 
 Haweis, H. R 81
 
 Index 99 
 
 Hawkins, B. W 70 
 
 Hayes, Isaac 1 70 
 
 Haynes, Henry W 76 
 
 Hedge, Frederic H 56 
 
 Hill, Thomas 59, 68 
 
 Hillard, George S 52 
 
 Hodges, George 92 
 
 Hollingsworth, William 27 
 
 Holmes, Oliver Wendell v, 25, 32, 55, 66 
 
 Holmes, O. W., Jr 77 
 
 Hoist, Herman Eduard von 89 
 
 Holtzendorff, Franz von 73 
 
 Hopkins, Mark 51, 60, 64, 69 
 
 Horsford, Eben N 52 
 
 Hotchkiss, J 82 
 
 Hough, F. B 72 
 
 Hovey, William A 71 
 
 Howells, William D 68 
 
 Hunt, T. Sterry 63, 80 
 
 Huntington, F. D 58 
 
 Huntington, Oliver W 87 
 
 Huntington Hall 26 
 
 Hyde, Alexander 66, 67 
 
 Jackson, Charles 55 
 
 James, F. H 90 
 
 James, William 74, 92 
 
 Johnston, James F. W. 53 
 
 Kasson, John A 86 
 
 Kennan, George 80, 85 
 
 Kirk, J. Foster 62 
 
 Kneeland, Samuel 70, 71, 79 
 
 Koehler. S. R 89 
 
 Koeppen, Adolphus L 52 
 
 Kropotkin, P 93 
 
 Kunz, George F 91
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Lanciani, Rodolfo 83 
 
 Langley, Samuel P 79 
 
 Lantern, the vertical 35 
 
 Lanza, Gaetano 88, 89 
 
 Lasell, Edward 53 
 
 Lathrop, G. P 77 
 
 Lawrence, Abbott 41 
 
 Lawrence, Edward A 66, 69 
 
 Lawrence Scientific School 39, 41 
 
 Lectures, total number of 29 
 
 Lectures, early popularity of in Boston 3 
 
 Lectures, publication of 38 
 
 Lecturers, selection of 30 
 
 Lemercier, F. G 66 
 
 Le Plangeon, Augustus 86 
 
 Lesdakelyi, E 61 
 
 Lesley, J. P 62 
 
 Lippitt, Francis J 62 
 
 Livermore, A. A 65 
 
 Livermore, T. L 82 
 
 Livermore, William R 90 
 
 Lockwood, Thomas D 81 
 
 Lodge, Henry Cabot 76 
 
 Longstreth, Morris 80 
 
 Loom, power 15 
 
 Lord, John 58 
 
 Levering, Joseph 31, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 59, 63, 75 
 
 Lowell, A. Lawrence 88 
 
 Lowell, Augustus 17 
 
 Lowell, Rev. Charles 15 
 
 Lowell, Francis Cabot 14 
 
 Lowell, Francis C 91 
 
 Lowell, James Russell 15, 32, 56, 83 
 
 Lowell, Judge John 13 
 
 Lowell, Judge John, sons of 14 
 
 Lowell, John Amory vi, 14, 15, 16, 18, 40 
 
 Lowell, John, Jr vi, n, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 46 
 
 Lowell, John, Jr., ancestry of 13
 
 Index 101 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lowell, John, Jr., will of 12, 15 
 
 Lowell, Percival 90 
 
 Lowell Drawing School 26, 28 
 
 Lowell Free Courses in the Massachusetts Institute of 
 
 Technology 43 
 
 Lowell Free Courses in the Wells Memorial Institute 44 
 
 Lowell Institute, audiences of 37 
 
 Lowell Institute, influence of v, 39, 42 
 
 Lowell Institute, opening of 21 
 
 Lowell Institute, origin of 12 
 
 Lowell Free Lectures of the Boston Society of Natural 
 
 History 44 
 
 Lowell Free School of Practical Design 44 
 
 Lumholtz, Carl 85, 89 
 
 Lyceum, the New England 5 
 
 Lyell, Charles 50, 51, 54 
 
 Lyon, D. G 84 
 
 Mahan, A. T 93 
 
 Marlboro Chapel 25, 28 
 
 Marsh, George P 60 
 
 Martin, George H 88 
 
 Massachusetts Historical Society 29 
 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26, 43, 44 
 
 Maury, M. F 57 
 
 McKenzie, Alexander 94 
 
 Mendenhall, T. C 79, 87 
 
 Mercantile Library Association 6 
 
 Merrill, Selah 74 
 
 Milburn, W. H 57. 77 
 
 Minot, Charles S 74 
 
 Mitchell, Edward C 80 
 
 Mitchell, O. M 52 
 
 Mitsukuri, Kakichi 94 
 
 Monti, Luigi 72, 77 
 
 Moore, Charles H 84 
 
 Morgan, C. Lloyd 91 
 
 Morse, Edward S 68, 78, 79, 85
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Moxom, Philip Stafford 90 
 
 Mozoomdar, Protap Chunder 89 
 
 Munroe, Charles E 86 
 
 Murray, John 87 
 
 Muybridge, Eadweard 84 
 
 Nash, Henry S 91 
 
 Newcomb, Simon 78 
 
 New England, early intellectual life of 2 
 
 Newhall, Frederick C 82 
 
 Nichols, William Ripley 73 
 
 Niles, William H 67, 71, 76 
 
 Northrup, B. G 70 
 
 Norton, Charles Eliot 61, 72 
 
 Nuttall, Thomas 49 
 
 Ober, Frederick A 80 
 
 Odeon, The 9 
 
 Ogden, William B. 67 
 
 Old Corner Book Store 22, 23 
 
 Olmstead, F. L 67 
 
 Palfrey, John G 49, 50, 56 
 
 Panin, Ivan 84 
 
 Parker, Joel 55. 66 
 
 Parks, Leighton 81 
 
 Peabody, A. P 61, 64, 71 
 
 Peabody, Francis G 86 
 
 Peirce, Benjamin 60, 67, 73, 75 
 
 Peirce, Charles S 63, 88 
 
 Perkins, C. C 67, 69, 70, 74 
 
 Phillips, Wendell 5 
 
 Pickering, E. C 70 
 
 Playfair, Lyon 76 
 
 Poets, English vi 
 
 Porter, Dwight 91 
 
 Potter, Alonzo 51, 52, 53, 54 
 
 Poulton, Edward B 89
 
 Index 103 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Power loom 15 
 
 Price, Bonamy 71 
 
 Proctor, Richard A 70, 71 
 
 Pumpelly, Raphael 67 
 
 Putnam, Frederick W 79 
 
 Ray, Isaac 58 
 
 Reid, David B 57 
 
 Rhys Davids, T. W 90 
 
 Riley, Charles Valentine 87 
 
 Ripley, William Z 92 
 
 Robbins, Chandler 66 
 
 Rogers, Henry D 51, 52, 53, 56 
 
 Rogers, William B 58, 59, 60 
 
 Ropes, John C 81,82 
 
 Rotch, A. Lawrence 86 
 
 Runkle, John D 73 
 
 Samuels, Edward A 63 
 
 Sanborn, F. B 73 
 
 Scharb, E. Vitalis 57 
 
 Schlagintweit, Robert von 64 
 
 Scholarship, Professor Tyndall's 42 
 
 Scudder, Horace E 78 
 
 Sedgwick, A. G 81 
 
 Sedgwick, William T 20, 89 
 
 Semper, Carl 74 
 
 Shaler, N. S 69, 84 
 
 Silliman, Benjamin 21, 31, 49, 50 
 
 Slavery, first prohibition of 14 
 
 Smith, Walter 69 
 
 Smith, William F 82 
 
 Soley, James R 81, 84 
 
 Solger, Reinhold 58, 59 
 
 Sparks, Jared 50 
 
 Spaulding, H. G 71, 73 
 
 Squier, E. George 63 
 
 Stanwood, Edward 8r
 
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 PAGE 
 
 Steffen, William 61 
 
 Stereopticon, first use of 35 
 
 Stone, Henry . . 82 
 
 Stone, Thomas T 58 
 
 Storrs, Richard Salter 77, 85 
 
 Story, William E 94 
 
 Swain, George F 91 
 
 Taylor, Bayard 74 
 
 Tenney, Sanborn 69, 72 
 
 Theatres, early 3, 8 
 
 Theatres, prejudice against 7, 9 
 
 Thompson, D'Arcy W 64 
 
 Tickets, distribution of 21, 23 
 
 Towle, George Makepeace 77, 83, 86 
 
 Tremont Temple 9 
 
 Trowbridge, John 71, 76 
 
 Trustee, powers and duties of the sole 12, 16, 17 
 
 Tucker, William Jewett 90 
 
 Tyler, M. Coit 77 
 
 Tyndall, John 42, 69 
 
 Upham, Charles W 65 
 
 Verrill, A. E 92 
 
 Walcott, Henry P. 92 
 
 Waldo, Leonard 83 
 
 Walker, C. Howard 90 
 
 Walker, Francis A 73, 75, 81, 82 
 
 Walker, James 49, 50, 59 
 
 Wallace, Alfred Russell 83 
 
 Ware, William R. 74, 86 
 
 Washburn, Emory 64, 65, 73 
 
 Waterston, Robert C 60, 68 
 
 Webster, Arthur Gordon 93 
 
 Weir, John F 92 
 
 Wells, David A 73
 
 Index 105 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Wells Memorial Workingmen's Institute 44 
 
 Wendell, Barrett 86 
 
 Whipple, Edwin P. 59 
 
 Whitney, William D 62 
 
 Wilder, Burt G 63, 67 
 
 Will of John Lowell, Jr 12, 15 
 
 Wilson, Daniel 6l 
 
 Wines, Frederick H go 
 
 Winthrop, Robert C 65 
 
 Wolkonsky, Serge 92 
 
 Wood, J. G 79 
 
 Wood, John T. 71 
 
 Woolsey, T. D 68 
 
 Wright, Carroll D 73, 76 
 
 Wright, G. Frederick 84, 87, 93 
 
 Wyman, Jeffries 18, 49, 53 
 
 Young, C. A 72, 8l 
 
 Zachos, J. C 62
 
 A List of Publications correspond- 
 ing to, and Largely the Result of, 
 Courses of Lectures delivered be- 
 fore the Lowell Institute.* 
 
 Abbott, Lyman. 
 
 Christianity and Social Problems. 
 Lowell Institute Lectures. 
 
 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1897. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1891-92.) 
 
 Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. 
 
 Railroads : their Origin and Problems. 
 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1878. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1874-75.) 
 
 Agassiz, Louis. 
 
 Comparative Embryology. 
 Flanders & Co., Boston, 1849. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1848-49.) 
 
 Geological Sketches. First Series. 
 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1866. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1853-54.) 
 
 Methods of Study in Natural History. 
 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1863. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1861-62.) 
 
 * This list, which includes books only, has been compiled with 
 care but is believed to be still incomplete. Information bearing upon 
 it will be welcomed by the author, who may be addressed in care of 
 the publishers. 
 
 106
 
 The Lowell Institute 107 
 
 Geological Sketches. Second Series. 
 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1875. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1864-65.) 
 
 Alger, William Rounseville. 
 
 A Critical Study of the Doctrine of a Future 
 
 Life. 
 George W. Childs, Philadelphia, 1 860. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1856-57.) 
 
 Allen, Alexander Viets Grisnold. 
 
 Christian Institutions. 
 
 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1897. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1891-92.) 
 
 Arnold, Howard Payson. 
 
 The Great Exposition : with Continental 
 
 Sketches. 
 Kurd & Houghton, New York, 1868. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1867-68.) 
 
 Bascom, John. 
 
 Science, Philosophy, and Religion : Lectures 
 delivered before the Lowell Institute, 
 Boston. 
 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1871. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1869-70.) 
 
 Philosophy of English Literature : Lectures 
 
 before the Lowell Institute, Boston. 
 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1874. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1873-74.)
 
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 Bates, Arlo. 
 
 Talks on the Study of Literature. 
 
 Lowell Institute Lectures. 
 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1897. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1895-96.) 
 
 Bowen, Francis. 
 
 Lowell Lectures on the Application of Meta- 
 physical and Ethical Science to the 
 Evidences of Religion. 
 Little & Brown, Boston, 1849. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1848-49.) 
 
 Brigham, William Tufts. 
 
 The Volcanic Phenomena of the Hawaiian 
 
 Islands. 
 Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1868. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1867-68.) 
 
 Brinton, Daniel Garrison. 
 
 Religion of Primitive Peoples : American 
 Lectures on the History of Religions. 
 G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1897. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1896-97.) 
 
 Burgess, Ebenezer. 
 
 What is Truth ? An Inquiry concerning 
 the Antiquity and Unity of the Human 
 Race. Lectures before the Lowell In- 
 stitute. 
 Israel P. Warren, Boston, 1871. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1866-67.)
 
 The Lowell Institute 109 
 
 Chadbourne, Paul Ansel. 
 
 Lectures on Natural Theology before the 
 Lowell Institute. 
 
 G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1867. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1865-66.) 
 
 Lowell Lectures : Instinct ; its Office in the 
 Animal Kingdom, and its Relation to 
 the Higher Power in Man. 
 
 G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1872. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1870-71.) 
 
 Clark, Henry James. 
 
 Mind in Nature : Origin of Life and Mode 
 of Development of Animals. With 
 illustrations. 
 D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1865. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1863-64.) 
 
 Clarke, James Freeman. 
 
 Events and Epochs in Religious History. 
 Being the Substance of Twelve Lect- 
 ures delivered in the Lowell Institute, 
 Boston. 
 
 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1881. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1879-80.) 
 
 Ten Great Religions. Part II. A Com- 
 parison of all Religions. Lowell Insti- 
 tute Lectures. 
 
 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1883. 
 
 (Lowell Institute, 1881-82.)
 
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 Cooke, Josiah Parsons. 
 
 Religion and Chemistry ; or, Proofs of God's 
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 The Theistic Argument as affected by Recent 
 
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 The Expansion of Religion. Lowell Insti- 
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 Studies of the Gods in Greece. At certain 
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 On the Cam. 
 
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 Felton, Cornelius Conway. 
 
 Ancient and Modern Greece. Lectures be- 
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 Old Virginia and her Neighbours. 
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 Brazil and the Brazilians. 
 
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 The English People in its Three Homes ; 
 the Practical Bearings of General Euro- 
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 Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1882. 
 
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 Giles, Henry. 
 
 Human Life in Shakespeare. 
 
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 Gliddon, George Robbins. 
 
 Ancient Egypt : her Monuments and Hiero- 
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 T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia, 1848 and 1850. 
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 From Shakespeare to Pope : Inquiry into the
 
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 Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of 
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 The Earth and Man. Translated from 
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 Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity, 
 
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 Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Dis- 
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 Man's Origin and Destiny, sketched from the 
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 Governments and Parties in Continental 
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 Occult Japan, or the Way of the Gods : an
 
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 Among Cannibals : an Account of Four 
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 A second Visit to the United States of North 
 
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 The Origin and History of the English Lan- 
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 Embodies. Lectures prepared for the 
 Lowell Institute, Boston. 
 Scribner & Co., New York, 1862. 
 
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 D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1894. 
 
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 Massachusetts Historical Society, Mem- 
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 Pioneer Preachers and People of the Missis- 
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 Development and Character of Gothic Ar- 
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 The Macmillan Company, London and New 
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 Japanese Homes and their Surroundings. 
 
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 Genesis of the Social Conscience : the Rela- 
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 Historical Studies of Church Building in the 
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 Reminiscences of European Travels. Lowell 
 
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 Italian Art. 
 
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