To the Editors of the Crimson:

GENTLEMEN:- Among the papers left by the late Professor Lowell,- clarum et venerabile nomen not only here at Harvard, but wherever good learning is cherished and great public services are honored,- were some scraps of the lectures to which his classes had the exceptional privilege of listening. Brief and fragmentary as they are, they yet exhibit in their small compass the breadth of mind and the wise reflection which were among the most marked traits of his nature, traits in which genius and character were united in rare combination.

It has seemed to me that the students now at the University would be interested in them, and might be benefited by them, and I therefore offer them to you for publication.

Very truly yours,

C. E. NORTON.