Excerpt from Memories of Our Great Towns: With Anecdotic Gleanings Concerning Their Worthies and Their Oddities, 1860-1877Dr. Doran's last book demands a word of introduction. For fourteen years the genial Author carried on in the pages of the Athenaeum that charming series of papers Which dealt annually With the locality selected for the approaching meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Last year, With the kind con currence of the Proprietors of the Athenceum, it was determined that these papers - so brimful of pleasant chatty interest and antiquarian lore - should be collected and republished. Accordingly the Author set about their revision. After finishing London in the Jacobite ¿mes he took a short holiday, and on returning to town com pleted his task. On the second day of J anuary - then in his usual happy spirits, and apparently in his usual health - he called on the printer, and With his own hand delivered the packet containing all the corrections in the contents.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.