CHAPTEE IX 



1877 



IN this year he delivered lectures and addresses on 

 the " Geological History of Birds," at the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens, June 7 ; on " Starfishes and their 

 Allies," at the Eoyal Institution, March 7 ; at the 

 London Institution, Dec. 17, on " Belemnites " (a 

 subject on which he had written in 1864, and which 

 was doubtless suggested anew by his autumn holiday at 

 Whitby, where the Lias cliffs are full of these fossils) ; 

 at the Anthropological Conference, May 22, on 

 " Elementary Instruction in Physiology " (Coll. Ess. iii. 

 294), with special reference to the recent legislation 

 as to experiments on living animals; and on "Technical 

 Education " to the Working Men's Club and Institute, 

 December 1 (Coll. Ess. iii. 404) : a perilous subject, 

 indeed, considering, as he remarks, that " any candid 

 observer of the phenomena of modern society will 

 readily admit that bores must be classed among the 

 enemies of the human race ; and a little consideration 

 will probably lead him to the further admission, that 

 no species of that extensive genus of noxious creatures 

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