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Visiting Authorities to Give Public Talks Monday

Two lectures on City Planning and Landscape Architecture will be given by W. H. Manning, president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and Sir Lawrence Weaver, Knight Commander of the British Empire, respectively, it was announced last night by the School of Landscape Architecture.

The first lecture by President Manning will be given Monday at 4 o'clock in the Lecture Room of Robinson Hall. The topic of this lecture is "A National Plan", and it will be illustrated with a series of lantern slides.

Speaking on "Modern Garden Design", Sir Lawrence Weaver will give the second lecture the evening of the same day at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum. He is director of the United Kingdom Exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and is President of the Design and Industries Association of Great Britain.

As a lecturer in England Sir Weaver has delivered addresses on such topics as "The Development of the English House" and "The Small Country House--Inside and Out."

He is the former editor of "Country Life", and is the author of many books, on architecture, industrial art, and garden design, and it is expected that he will draw from his experiences while in this work when lecturing Monday night.

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The lectures are the eighth and ninth of a series of lectures on Landscape Architecture that are sponsored each year by the School of Landscape Architecture. They are open to the public.

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