[1] Delivered at the formal opening of the Johns Hopkins University
at Baltimore, U.S., September 12. The total amount bequeathed by
Johns Hopkins is more than 7,000,000 dollars. The sum of
3,500,000 dollars is appropriated to a university, a like sum to
a hospital, and the rest to local institutions of education and
charity.
LONDON.
LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY.
It is my duty to-night to speak about the study of Biology, and while it
may be that there are many of my audience who are quite familiar with
that study, yet as a lecturer of some standing, it would, I know by
experience, be very bad policy on my part to suppose such to be
extensively the case. On the contrary, I must imagine that there are
many of you who would like to know what Biology is; that there are
others who have that amount of information, but would nevertheless
gladly hear why it should be worth their while to study Biology; and yet
others, again, to whom these two points are clear, but who desire to
learn how they had best study it, and, finally, when they had best study
it.
I shall, therefore, address myself to the endeavour to give you some
answer to these four questions--what Biology is; why it should be
studied; how it should be studied; and when it should be studied.
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