PROFESSOR BICKERTON'S LECTURES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11045, 5 September 1903, Page 6

PROFESSOR BICKERTON'S LECTURES.

Professor Bickertou has long been kuowi in the south as a most instructive and jjopv. lar lecturer. Commencing as a teacher o. science in Winchester, England, nearly 4.' years ago, it may safely be said that the professor's life has been one long term o light-bringing to the minds of the manj thousands of scholars who have saf befort him. His success as a teacher of scienct was phenomenal, especially while in chargi of tho Hartley Institute in the town oi Souhtampton, at which time^all the more distinguished students who passed the In dian Civil Service exams, wont through hit hands. The success of the institute was sc •rreat that the Indian 1 Board' endeavoured co have the "Hartley" made the teehnica. Lraining college for the entire Indian Civil .-service. It was at tins time that the pro tessor attracted the. attention of the Col mial Board, and overture's were made vvhich resulted in his coming to the colonj as professor of chemistry at Canterburj College.- Shortly after his arrival he gave a series of six lectures at the Oddfellows HpII, with, the result 'that the last of these lectures was so crowded that large number* were turned away from the. doors. Manj series .of lectur.es, have been given by the professor since those days, and all have drawn full halls,, and we- shall be surprised if the people of Wanganui, more especially those who' delight in an intellectual treat io not show their appreciation of the op portunitv afforded them by presenting the popular lecturer with a bumper house. The professor lectures on the "Romance of the Heavens" under the auspices of the Wansranui Astronomical Society, also on the '.Romance of Mankind." These two lee tures have within the last month or so heer. delivered to large audiences in' Christchurch; a%d we may be sure that in botl ■in intellectual feast awaits us in St. PauTE Hall on the evenings of Tuesday and Thurs.day next, the Bth and 10th instants.