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Excerpt from A Summer School of Science: Vacation Science Courses, Edinburg
Botanical Course at the Royal Botanic Garden, through the kindness of the late Professor Dickson. In 1888 both Courses were united at Granton, and short ened from six to four weeks. Mr Scott - Elliot having gone abroad, his place was taken by Mr Patrick Geddes. Last summer considerable developments were made. The Courses of Zoology and Botany were doubled, so as to admit of fuller treatment, and Of adaptation to beginners and more advanced students. A Course of Elementary Lectures, intended as an introduction to the social sciences, was also delivered by Prof. Geddes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
