ABSTRACT
This schedule of extra subjects is very valuable; by it, and by it alone, does the Department extend its care beyond the providing the mere instruments of knowledge to the providing knowledge itself. The order and plan by which this is provided is of the very highest importance. The schedule cannot at present be regarded as furnishing more than an inchoate plan; it will require to have all its parts developed and co-ordered, and better text-books than those now in use will have to be created. I showed to a distinguished physiologist the papers in physiology which had been worked under the present schedule; he told me that every one was quite worthless, and that apparently the method and text-books by which the subject had been taught were quite worthless too.
