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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

PUBLIC LECTURES

DELIVERED IN THE CHAPEL

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI,

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI,

BY

MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY.

1878-79.

COURSE II. VOLUME I.

1879:

Statesman Book and Job Prins,
Columbia, Mo.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by D. R. MCANALLY, JR.,

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Agent of the Faculty of the University of Missouri, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

PREFACE.

Believing that the threefold relation existing between themselves, the students under their care and the state, demanded something more than the ordinary classroom work at their hands, the members of the Faculty of the University of Missouri two years ago determined to prepare a series of lectures, illustrative of the specialties of the various departments, and sufficiently popular in character to be attractive not only to the undergraduates, but also to the public at large. The first course, delivered in the University Chapel during the winter of 1877-78, was pronounced so successful that the Faculty felt encouraged to enter upon a second, and this, in turn, was received with indications of popular approval so flattering in character that it was resolved to publish the entire second series. This volume is the result of that determination. The lectures herein contained, while designed primarily for the students of the University, nevertheless it is believed do not lack certain elements of popularity which render them, at least in some degree, adapted to the wants of the reading public. To that public this book is now presented with the hope that the original purpose of the lectures will be held in remembrance, and with the expectation that succeeding volumes will prove more worthy of the appreciation already so kindly manifested by the friends of the University in behalf of this first effort.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, COLUMBIA, BOONE COUNTY, Mo., 1879. (

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