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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 249, 20 October 1874, Page 3

Oo the occasion of Professor Fawcelt's speech at Brighton the other day, the report of which occupied more than two columns of the Scotsman, a curious instance was afforded ot memory snch as is not often equalled. A gentleman who went down to Brighton in order to report the speech for fourteen newspaper?, called upon the Professor some time before its delivery, and explaining the nature^ of his business requested the favor of a statement of the principal points of the speech. Professor Fawceit very courteously proposed not only io give him the substance of bis speech, but tp rehearse the whole of it to him. This he did, and the reporter took it v down. ' Later 00, while tbe speech proper was being delivered, the origioal copy made at the rehearsal was checked over wor<J for word, and from beginning to. end'; so perfectly had the speech been committed to memory, there was not one single mistake, except that at one place a word wasaubatituted for its equivalent in tbe notes. j