This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... was as new to him as it was to any one in the audience. This elicited another round of applause, for it was pretty generally suspected that Sammy was doing little more than reciting something which his preceptor had prepared for the occasion. The first doubt on this point was raised in the minds of the wiser ones when the young lecturer replied to Young Diggles. This, they whispered among themselves, could hardly have been arranged beforehand, although some were disposed to think so. All questions of this kind were set at rest by the voluntary statement of Doctor Hubbs himself. It was nearly eleven o'clock before the exercises closed. The hall having been filled uncomfortably, more than seven hundred persons must have been present, and all went away greatly pleased with what they had heard. Now I trust my young readers have been interested in the very complete report I have given of what occurred at the lecture. No important points have been omitted from the details of the lecture itself, excepting those bearing upon subjects which have been substantially presented in previous pages. Nor have I used terms with which you should not be familiar, if you have read all that has gone before. If any one of the chapters or volumes of this series contains anything locked up from the youthful understanding, the key to it will be found in the chapter or volume which precedes it. So you have only to follow the narrative, without skipping to the more interesting points, to fully comprehend the scientific as well as the most amusing portions of this story. And now, my young readers, our fourth volume is so full it will be necessary to close it with this chapter, and I am glad to be able to give to you in the closing pages of a book devoted to the brain and nerves such ...