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UNDER the title of the Glasgow Science Lectures Association, an organisation has lately been formed in Glasgow, whose object is to provide annual courses of lectures on various branches of science by men of eminence in each department, so as to place in clear and comprehensive outlines the most important results of scientific inquiry before the public of Glasgow, and at such a rate as will secure to those who cannot otherwise obtain it the best information on the state of science, as established by the most recent investigations of its most distinguished workers. The scheme originated amongst a number of working men who were desirous of following the example of the science lecture movement which has been so successfully worked out in Manchester during the last six or seven years, but with this difference, namely, that the lectures should be self-supporting. To accomplish that end, and be in a position to pay the lecturers liberally for their services, they at once saw that the minimum rate of admission could not well be fixed at less than threepence, and they confidently believed that many of their fellows would be most willing to pay that amount for the privilege which it was proposed to place within their reach. They soon enlisted the sympathies and active co-operation of persons in a higher social sphere, and in due time the Association took active shape. A large executive committee was constituted, and Dr. Allen Thomson, F.R.S., one of the most distinguished members of the professorial staff of the University of Glasgow, cheerfully accepted the honorary presidentship of the Association, while a number of other prominent citizens were enrolled in the list of vice-presidents.
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MAYER, J. Glasgow Science Lectures . Nature 11, 233–234 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011233a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/011233a0