Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Address Delivered by H. H. Turner, D.Sc., F. R. S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford: In the Section of Astrophysics at the Congress of Arts and Sciences at St. Louis, on Wednesday, September 21, 1904, at 4 P. M
I have in my possession a copy of a work of reference on cycling, dated no earlier than 1887, in which it is carefully stated as a deliberate conclusion that ladies will never use the machine to any great extent.
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