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cephalic) Tartar skull, and a long-headed (dolichocephalic) 

 one of Australian type. 



2. " On Acanthopholis horridus, a New Reptile from 

 the Chalk-marl " (Geol. Mag., iv, 1867, pp. 65-7. Sci. 

 Mem., iii, xii, p. 231;. — This is a short account of 

 some fragmentary remains belonging to a Dinosaur. 



3. " On the Classification of Birds ; and on the Tax- 

 onomic Value of the Modifications of Certain of the 

 Cranial Bones observable in that Class " (Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1867, pp. 415-72. Read April ii, 1867. Sci. Mem., 

 iii, XIII, p. 239). — This epoch-making paper, the result 

 of work commenced some years previously {cf. p. 63), 

 is an attempt to classify a notoriously difficult group upon 

 new principles, and the supposed actual relationships 

 between the subdivisions thus constituted are indicated. 



1868. 



Three addresses given during 1 868 are remarkable in 

 various ways. One of them, *' A Liberal Education ; and 

 where to find it" (Coll. Essays, iii, p. 76), delivered at 

 the South London Working-Men's College, sets forth 

 the crying need for an all-round education involving real 

 training of the mind, makes a scathing indictment against 

 all stages of education in Britain as then carried out, and 

 sketches the result to be expected from the system of 

 education advocated, in the following notable passages : — 



" That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has 

 been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of 

 his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a 

 mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic 

 engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth, work- 

 ing order ; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind 

 of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of 

 the mind ; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great 



