Extra Credit Questions

[RJNorton]

Imaginative guess, Gene, but not correct.

[Steve]

Asa Gray?

[RJNorton]

I am sorry, Steve, but the person who gave the lecture was not Asa Gray.

[Rob Wick]

Edward Everett?

Best
Rob

[RJNorton]

Nope, not Everett, Rob.

Hint #1: It is a man who has been mentioned previously on this forum.

[L Verge]

Please try to answer this question without looking up the answer.

157 years ago today (January 3, 1862) Abraham Lincoln attended a lecture at the Smithsonian. Who gave the lecture?

The lecture was cancelled due to a government shut-down...

[RJNorton]

Nope, Laurie. It appears that the first shutdown was in 1980. The lecture in question took place as scheduled in 1862 at the Smithsonian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government...ted_States

[AussieMick]

(Henry?) Beecher Stowe ?

[RJNorton]

Nope, Michael, it was not Henry Ward Beecher or Harriet Beecher Stowe.

[Steve]

Thomas Huxley?

[GustD45]

I think it was Joseph Henry

[RJNorton]

Nope, Steve and Gust, it was not Huxley or Henry.

Hint #1: The man was well-known for being anti-slavery.

[AussieMick]

Frederick Douglass?

[RJNorton]

Nope, Michael, it was not Douglass.

[Rob Wick]

This is totally a c rap shoot, but today I was going over an article I wrote on James G. Randall's "Blundering Generation" thesis and he mentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson, so that's my guess.

Best
Rob