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ONE OF THE COMMITTEE THE immediate object of the Victoria Hall Committee is to provide healthy amusement in place of the unhealthy sort too often found in places of cheap recreation, and does not appeal specially to scientific men as such. But they have a scheme on hand for next autumn to which I venture to call your attention. They would like to devote one evening in the week for popular lectures, and as a previous experiment they propose to have during October and November a series of very elementary popular addresses on scientific subjects of about half an hour in length, to be introduced in the beginning, or middle, or end of the temperance demonstrations which take place on Friday evenings. It is hoped that an interest in such matters may be awakened in the audience (usually numbering ten or twelve hundred, or during the winter more than this), which assembles at these demonstrations. It is an audience less of artisans than of labourers and costermongers, among whom the demand for scientific teaching must be created as well as supplied. If once it can be shown that such addresses are appreciated, we have good hope of efficient help in carrying them on, but we should be grateful for offers of help in the pioneer course. Dr. W. B. Carpenter, Dr. Richardson, and one or two others have given conditional promises, but we have not yet sufficient names for a long enough series to try the experiment fairly.
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Science at the Victoria Hall. Nature 26, 366 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026366a0
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