(46/1.

The reference is presumably to the Royal Institution Lectures given in 1854-56.

Those which we have seen--namely, those reprinted in the "Scientific Memoirs," Volume I.--"On the Common Plan of Animal Form," page 281; "On certain Zoological Arguments, etc." page 300; "On Natural History as Knowledge, Discipline, and Power," page 305, do not seem to us to contain anything likely to offend; but Falconer's attack in the "Ann.

and Mag.

of Nat.
Hist." June 1856, on the last-named lecture, shows strong feeling.