Talk:Silliman Memorial Lectures

Boilerplate

The text noted by Corensearchbot is a standard piece of text which is included not only on the Yale University website but also in the prefaces of numerous of the books cited in this list. A number of these date from before 1923 and are therefore past American copyright limitations. Chris55 (talk) 06:59, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

An example is at http://www.questia.com/read/53186245 which was published in 1913. Look at p. v Chris55 (talk) 19:25, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Sloppy dates

When a list of annual lectures is shown by date as here with the Silliman lectures, the general reader would logically infer that the year shown is the year the lectures were given. Apparently that is not the case.

For example, Edwin Hubble's 'Realm of the Nebulae' lectures were later turned into a book published by Yale University Press, copyright 1936. In a preface included with the book Hubble wrote he delivered the Silliman lectures at Yale in the autumn of 1935. The list gives the year for Hubble's 'Realm of the Nebulae' as 1937, which is neither the year the lectures were given nor the copyright date of the book. The list should be cleaned up to reflect the year the lectures were given.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Donfulton (talk • contribs) 04:43, 24 June 2013 (UTC) 

Identity of Hepsa?

The links make no mention of Hepsa as wife or mother. Gold Selleck Silliman, died 1790; Benjamin Silliman, died 1864, married 1-Harriet Trumbull, 2-Sarah Isabella (McClellan) Webb; Benjamin Silliman, Jr., died 1885, married Susan Huldah Forbes. Nor do the sources disclose the identity of "the testator". Qexigator (talk) 16:17, 26 August 2014 (UTC)