II 



ON TTTE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE 

 NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCES 



[1851] 



The subject to which I have to beg your atten- 

 tion (luring the ensuing hour is " The Relation of 

 Physiological Science to other branches of Knowl- 

 edge." 



Had circumstances permitted of the delivery, 

 in their strict logical order, of that series of dis- 

 courses of which the present lecture is a member, 

 I should have preceded my friend and colleague 

 Mr. llonfrey, who addressed you on ^londay last; 

 but while, for the sake of that order, I must beg 

 you to suppose that this discussion of the Educa- 

 tional bearings of Biology in general does precede 

 that of Special Zoology and Botany, I am rejoiced 

 to be able to take advantage of the light thus 

 already thrown u)ion the tendency and methods of 

 Phvsioloirical Science. 



Regarding IMiysiological Science, then, in its 



