52 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. II 



Institution in January and February, on "First 

 Principles of Biology," and from October to December 

 on " Elementary Physiology " ; lectures to Working 

 Men in London from February to April, as well as 

 one at Liverpool, March 25, on " The Geographical 

 Distribution of Animals " ; two lectures at the Royal 

 Institution, May 12 and 19, on "Berkeley on Vision," 

 and the " Metaphysics of Sensation " (Coll. Ess. vi.). 

 He published one paleontological paper, "Fossil 

 Vertebrates from the Yarrow Colliery " (Huxley and 

 Wright, Irish Acad. Trans.}. In June and July he 

 gave 36 lectures to schoolmasters that important 

 business of teaching the teachers that they might set 

 about scientific instruction in the right way. 1 He 

 attended the British Association at Edinburgh, and 

 laid down his Presidency ; he brought out his 

 "Manual of Vertebrate Anatomy," and wrote a review 

 of "Mr. Darwin's Critics" (see p. 62 sq.), while on 

 October 9 he delivered an address at the Midland 

 Institute, Birmingham, on "Administrative Nihilism" 

 (Coll. Ess. i.). This address, written between September 

 21 and 28, and remodelled later, was a pendant to 

 his educational campaign on the School Board ; a 

 restatement and justification of what he had said and 

 done there. His text was the various objections 

 raised to State interference with education ; he dealt 

 first with the upholders of a kind of caste system, 

 men who were willing enough to raise themselves and 

 their sons to a higher social plane, but objected on 

 1 See pp. 59, 80, sq. 



