{126} Since this essay was written, I have been sincerely delighted to find that my wishes had been anticipated at Girton College, near Cambridge, and previously at Hitchin, whence the college was removed: and that the wise ladies who superintend that establishment propose also that most excellent institution—a swimming-bath. A paper, moreover, read before the London Association of School-mistresses in 1866, on “Physical Exercises and Recreation for Girls,” deserves all attention. May those who promote such things prosper as they deserve. {187} Lecture delivered at Bristol, October 5, 1857. {192} This was spoken during the Indian Mutiny. {257} Delivered at St. James’s Hall, London, 1859. {271} Fraser’s Magazine, No. CCCXXXVII. 1858. {276} We find a most honourable exception to this rule in a sermon by the Rev. C. Richson, of Manchester, on the Sanitary Laws of the Old Testament, with notes by Dr. Sutherland.