CONTENTS. 



i. 



On the Advisableness of improving Natural Knowledge. 

 (A Lay Sermon delivered in St. Martin's Hall, on the evening 

 of Sunday, the 7th of January, I860, and subsequently published 

 in the Fortnightly Reviciv) ••••••••■••••• 1 



II. 



Emancipation — Black and White. (The Leader, May 20th, 1SG5) 20 



III. 



A Liberal Education : and Where to find It. (An Address 

 to the South London Working Men's College, delivered on the 

 4th of January, 18G8, and subsequently published in MacmiUan's 

 Magazine) 27 



IV. 



Scientific Education : Notes of an After-dinner Sr-EEcn. (De- 

 livered before the Liverpool Philomathic Society in April 1869, 

 and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine) 64 



V. 



On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences. 

 (An Address delivered at St. Martin's Hall, on the 22d July, 1854, 

 and published as a pamphlet in that year) # 2 



