CHAPTEE VIII 



1876 



THE year 1876 was again a busy one, almost as busy 

 as any that went before. As in 1875, his London 

 work was cut in two by a course of lectures in 

 Edinburgh, and sittings of the Royal Commission on 

 Scottish Universities, and furthermore, by a trip to 

 America in his summer vacation. 



In the winter and early spring he gave his usual 

 lectures at South Kensington ; a course to working 

 men " On the Evidence as to the Origin of Existing 

 Vertebrated Animals, "from February to April (Nature, 

 vols. xiii. and xiv.) ; a lecture at the Royal Institution 

 (January 28) " On the Border Territory between the 

 Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms " (Cott. Essays, viii. 

 170); and another at Glasgow (February 15) "On 

 the Teleology and Morphology of the Hand." 



In this lecture, which he never found time to get 

 into final shape for publication, but which was sub- 

 stantially repeated at the Working Men's College in 

 1878, he touched upon one of the philosophic aspects 

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