‘ LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY `
\ brarian engaged a Professor Pepper, inventor
\ and lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute in
\ London, for a series of lectures. Two Louis-
ville men of science, Dr. J. Lawrence Smith and ‘
T Dr. Charles F. Carpenter, had heard Professor
\· Pepper in London and vouched for his ability.
With 50 per cent of gross receipts going to the %
, library, Professor Bepper’s three or four leo- G
tures were the only ones given in the hall [
Q which made money for the library.(7)
Q Before he left Louisville, Professor Pepper
J told Towne that his scientific apparatus, in-
, cluding one of the largest and best lantern- {
I 5 slide projectors then in use, had been attached I
1 Q by his creditors in Chicago. The apparatus had l
J ; cost $8,000 and could be bought for $500.
L Towne, continuing to act on his own initiative, A
.. i bought it for the library. It arrived in "most `
$ wonderfully disordered condition"; but soon I
V after its receipt another scientific lecturer,
  Prof. Thomas W. Tobin, came to the city to lec-
I , ture at the Louisville Exposition. He had —
Q known Professor Pepper in London, was familiar _
with the apparatus, and was delighted to find '
it in Louisville. He readily consented to re-
_ ` pair it so it could be used to illustrate a
1 series of lectures.(B)
, Several learned Louisvillians were invited —
W ; to prepare lectures that could be illustrated
by the chemical and physical apparatus and on
I the projection machine, and in all, thirteen
// lectures were given by Dr. Thomas E. Jenkins,
y" Dr. Theodore S. Bell, William J. Davis, and Dr.
z Emory A. Grant. The most strenuous efforts
  were made to insure the success of the series.
` The newspapers were liberal with publicity,
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