CONTENTS. 



PAGB 



I. SCIENCE AND CULTURE 7 



An Address delivered at the Opening of Sir Josiah Mason's 

 Science College, at Birmingham, on the 1st of October 

 1880. 



II. UNIVERSITIES : ACTUAL AND IDEAL 31 



The Inaugural Address of the Lord Rector of the University I 4^ 



of Aberdeen, February 27, 1874. Contemporary Re- 

 view, 1874. 



III. TECHNICAL EDUCATION 73 



An Address delivered to the Working Men's Club and Insti- 

 tute, December 1, 1877. Nineteenth Century, 1878. ^>r 



IV. ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY 94 



Read at the Meeting of the Domestic Economy Congress at 

 Birmingham, 1877. 



V. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY 102 



An Address delivered on the occasion of the Presentation of 

 a Statue of Priestley to the Town of Birmingham, on 

 V / the 1st of August 1874. Macmillarfs Magazine, 1874. 



VI. ON THE METHOD OF ZADIO 135 



A Lecture delivered at the Working Men's College, Great 



Ormond Street, 1 880. Nineteenth Century, 1880. 

 VII. ON THE BORDER TERRITORY BETWEEN THE ANIMAL AND THE 



VEGETABLE KINGDOMS 156 



An Evening Lecture at the Royal Institution, Friday, Jan- 

 uary 28, 1876. MacmUlan't Magazine, 1874. 



