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DIR. LARDNER's LECTURES.

POPULAR LECTURES on SCIENCE and ART ART,
DELIyERED II THE T CHEF HE pc S1lES fS
LARDNER Doctor OF Civil Law, Fellow of the koysl So
celes OF London and Edinburgh Member OF the Cuvefs
ties OF Cambridge and Dublin and formerly Professor OF
Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in The University Of
London, &c. &c. ,,
TO close his public Lectures in this country, they have
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