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school liad a growing reputation, and afterward enlarged the 

 sphere of its benefits. It was for many years one of the chief 

 schools in the eastern part of the State, and was resorted to by all 

 classes. 



The society * also accumulated a valuable library, which was 

 added to and maintained until destroyed by the Federal troops 

 on the occupation of Georgetown during the civil war. Also 

 during the war the school itself was discontinued. 



The Winyaw Indigo Society still exists in Georgetown as a 

 social club, but has no connection with indigo except in name. 

 The old hall of the society is now occupied by the public graded 

 schools of Georgetown. 



Thus a new social and industrial order has established itself 

 upon the old. The children of these schools to-day know nothing 

 of indigo. The process of its manufacture, once so important, is 

 now forgotten. But to the traveler through the country the 

 branching herbs of the wayside with their bluish-green leaves are 

 eloquent with the memories of an era long past, and of a for- 

 gotten industry whose records are hidden away within the pages 

 of a few obscure old volumes. 







THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OP TYNDALL. 



By the Eight Hon. LOED EAYLEIGH, F, E, S., etc., 

 professor of natural philosophy, rotai- institution of great britain. 



IT is fitting that the present season should not pass without a 

 reference on these evenings to the work of him whose tragic 

 death a few months since was felt as a personal grief and loss 

 by every member of the Royal Institution. With much diffi- 

 dence I have undertaken the task to-night, wishing that it had 

 fallen to one better qualified by long and intimate acquaintance 

 to do justice to the theme. For Tyndall was a personality of 

 exceeding interest. He exercised an often magical charm upon 

 those with whom he was closely associated, but when his oppo- 

 sition was aroused he showed himself a keen controversialist. 

 My subject of to-night is but half the story. 



Even the strictest devotion of the time at my disposal to a sur- 

 vey of the scientific work of Tyndall will not allow of more than 

 a very imperfect and fragmentary treatment. During his thirty 



* An account of the Winyaw Indigo Society, and the school established by it, is given 

 in a Paper on Colonial Education in South Carolina, read before the South Carolina Histori- 

 cal Society, August 6, 1883, by Edward McCrady, Jr., and afterward published in vol. iv 

 of the Collections of the Historical Society of South Carolina. 



