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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, 1866, and subsequently published 

 in the Fortnightly .Review} c, ,,*,. u .. r 1 



II. 



K MANCIPATION BLACK AND WHITE. (The Beader, May 20th, 1865) 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, 1868, and subsequently published in Macmillaris 

 Magazine] 27 



IV. 



SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION : NOTES OF AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH. (De- 

 livered before the Liverpool Philomathic Society in April 1869, 

 and subsequently published in Macmillari's Magazine) . , . . . 54 



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) .... ... 72 



