The Museum Lectures.—The fourth series of the Museum lectures commenced in
July this year, instead of April, the delay having been caused by the
building of the new Art Gallery, and though this has provided a larger
room, it is not large enough to meet the wants of the increased
attendance. Up to the present five lectures have been delivered, for,
unfortunately, Mr. Cooke was prevented by illness from giving his lecture
on August 7 on “Astronomy, Old and New,” and will not be able to give it
on the 11th inst. Mr. G. Pitt Morrison [sic], however, has kindly
consented to lecture on that evening on “Art in Australia.” He will be
followed by Mr. W. H. Timperley on the aborigines on the 18th, and the
course will be closed on the 25th by the director, Mr. Bernard H.
Woodward, who will give an account of the coral-building animals—animals
which have taken so large a share in the building of the crust of the
earth. Lectures are already promised for next year by Messrs. Cecil
Andrews, M. F. Cooke, A. Gibb Maitland, Dr. Kelsall, and others, the
director opening the fifth series by a lecture on sculpture.
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