PROPOSALS 



For a Course of Lectures on the general Physiological 

 Structure and Organization of Man and other 

 Animals; submitted by Mr. Esteto the Consideration 

 of the Board of Managers of the Royal Institution. 



IN tracing the different establishments of Europe for 

 the cultivation and diffusion of science and the arts, at- 

 tention will generally be found directed, first, to such 

 branches of science as, requiring demonstration and ex- 

 periment, cannot be illustrated without the aid of pub- 

 lic lectures, and practical expositions of the grounds 

 on which their principles rest. Experimental philoso- 

 phy accordingly precedes and paves the way to re- 

 searches of a higher and more intricate order ; to astro- 

 nomy, to chemistry, and to the most diversified and 

 combined investigations : natural sciences are thus seen 

 in their progress advancing together, mutually assisting 

 each other, and flourishing most successfully in society. 

 Where the vegetable and mineral kingdoms are explored, 

 it cannot but be very desirable that the animal kingdom, 

 a part of nature surely not less interesting than the other 

 two, should be examined and explained, so far as it can 

 be done, with the strictest regard to decorum, and the 

 nicest feelings of an audience composed of both sexes. 



Mr. Este, perceiving in the Royal Institution, a de- 

 ficiency in a branch of science to which the study of 

 his life has been chiefly devoted, considering that as 

 zoological lectures were formerly given there, the gene- 



