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lectures--first, in the
belief that it would afford
both Mr and Mrs Stanford
pleasure to attend one of
them;--second, with
the hope that you, your
professors, and your students
might be pleased to have
an opportunity of studying
some facts about animal
movements but little under-
stood; and third
because I shall naturally
feel some gratification in
giving my first lecture
on this court, on the
same ground where my
first experiments in analysis
were made; and I shall
be delighted to learn that
it is agreeable to you, and