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Show Astronomical Lertnres. It is no rt flection npon the memory mem-ory of the learned aBd eloljuent as trouomer, Prof. Richard A. Proctor, to say tliat he died comparatively poor. On the contrarj, It shows thaf he was devoted to science more than to lucre. Iti order to save the library accumulated by him, his widow Iras gone upon the lecture platform, and lias two npjiointnicnls in this city. Tomorrow evening, In IndepcndeneoHall, she will u'cllvci the lecture pn pared by hcrhusbanJ shoitly before his death entitled. 'The Urth and deati? of he world,'' and on the following evening she will deliver mother entitled. "A Trip to the bun." Tlie admission" fee is small and the house ought to bu crowded each night. Lectures of such a high order of Intellectual merit should attract large-iuJIcuccsin this city. |