| Description | Manuscript. Congratulates K Pearson on election to Professorship of Geometry, Gresham College; dates, scheme and advertisement of lectures; returns proof of Pearson's syllabus; enclosing an anonymous letter sent to the Lord Mayor accusing Pearson of using Gresham Lectures to attack Christianity, and propounding views on physics and metaphysics rather than teaching Geometry; Pearson's re-election to the Gresham Chair for 1892; expenses fund per year for cost of illustrating the lectures; informing that the Gresham Committee would be unlikely to help in building an observatory on the roof of UCL. |