CONTENTS. 



I. 



PAGE 



ADMINISTRATIVE NIHILISM. (An Address delivered to the Members 

 of the Midland Institute, on the 9th of October, 1871, and subse- 

 quently published in the Fortnightly Review) 3 



II. 



THE SCHOOL BOARDS : WHAT THEY CAN DO, AND WHAT THEY MAY 



DO. (The Contemporary Review, 1870) 33 



III. 



ON MEDICAL EDUCATION. (An Address to the Students of the 



Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, 1870) . . 56 



IV. 



YEAST. (The Contemporary Review, 1871) 71 



V. 



ON THE FORMATION OF COAL. (A Lecture delivered before the 

 Members of the Bradford Philosophical Institution, and subse- 

 quently published in the Contemporary Review) .... . 92 



VI. 



CORAL AND CORAL REEFS. ( Good Words, 1870) Ill 



