The following essay, which accompanied the publication of the syllabus for the four lectures on "Phenomenological Method and Phenomenological Philosophy" which Edmund Husserl delivered at the University of London in June 1922,² is chiefly an attempt to salvage an episode in the history of phenomenology which is rapidly becoming inaccessible. Some of its most important parts are in all probability past recovery. The special reason for this attempt is the present revival of interest in phenomenology in England. This remarkable, if not amazing, comeback makes it doubly important to learn some of the facts about its largely-forgotten past record.