Besides the resident professors, it has been the policy of the University to enlist from time to time the services of distinguished scholars as lecturers on those subjects to which their studies have been particularly directed.  During the first few years the number of such lecturers was larger, and the duration of their visits was longer than it has been recently.  When the faculty was small, the need of the occasional lecturer was more apparent for obvious reasons, than it has been in later days.  Still the University continues to invite the cooperation of non-resident professors, and the proximity of Baltimore to Washington makes it particularly easy to engage learned gentlemen from the capital to give occasional lectures upon their favorite studies.  Recently a lectureship of Poetry has been founded by Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull of Baltimore, in memory of a son who is no longer living, and an annual course may be expected from writers of distinction who are known either as poets, or as critics, or as historians of poetry.  The first lecturer on this foundation will be Mr. E.C.  Stedman, of New York, the second, Professor Jebb, of Cambridge (Eng.).  Another lectureship has been instituted by Mr. Eugene Levering with the object of promoting the purposes of the Young Men’s Christian Association.  The first lecturer on this foundation was Rev. Dr. Broadus, of Louisville, Ky.

A few of those who held the position of lecturers made Baltimore their home for such prolonged periods that they could not properly be called non-resident.  The following list contains the principal appointments.  It might be much enlarged by naming those persons who have lectured at the request of one department of the University and not of the Trustees, and by naming some who gave but single lectures.

1876      SIMON NEWCOMB                  Astronomy.
1876      LEONCE RABILLON                French.
1877      JOHN S. BILLINGS               Medical History, etc.
1877      FRANCIS J. CHILD               English Literature,
1877      THOMAS M. COOLEY               Law.
1877      JULIUS E. HILGARD              Geodetic Surveys.
1877      JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL           Romance Literature.
1877      JOHN W. MALLET                 Technological Chemistry.
1877      FRANCIS A. WALKER              Political Economy.
1877      WILLIAM D. WHITNEY             Comparative Philology.
1878      WILLIAM F. ALLEN               History.
1878      WILLIAM JAMES                  Psychology.
1878      GEORGE S. MORRIS               History of Philosophy.
1879      J. LEWIS DIMAN                 History.
1879      H. VON HOLST                   History.
1879      WILLIAM G. FARLOW              Botany.
1879      J. WILLARD GIBBS               Theoretical Mechanics.
1879      SIDNEY LANIER                  English Literature.
1879      CHARLES S. PEIRCE              Logic.