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neral heiglit of the story, and connecting the two principal rooms 

 in the structure, which relatively occupy the main bodies of its 

 principal and rear fronts. These are the library and the grammar 

 school-room. The former is over the entrance vestibule and sub- 

 ordinate schools in front, and occupies the grand series of windows 

 of the elevation. This room is 102 feet long, 25 feet wide, and 31 

 feet in height. The latter — the grammar-school — occupies the 

 corresponding part within the rear-front, over the vaulted play- 

 ground below; over one end there will be a gallery for the accommo- 

 dation of visitors at public examinations ; above which gallery the 

 length of this room is 120 feet, its width 30 feet, and its height 45 

 feet. The roof will be carved and enriched with tracery in the 

 manner of the roofs of Eltham, Crosby, and other ancient halls of 

 the same period. In the wings of the fronts and the flanking- 

 buildings from front to rear, are the residences for the head and 

 second master, which include apartments for the accommodation of a 

 limited number of private pupils. The building is entirely faced with 

 a durable grit stone, of a fine colour, from Darley Dale, in Derby- 

 shire. The interior of the vestibule, corridors, and staircases, all of 

 which are highly decorative^ and have groined ceilings, are entirely 

 cased with stone." 



SKETCHES OF BRITISH ICHTHYOLOGY. 



No. 1.— THE SYNGNATHID^, on Family of Pipe-Fishes. 



By Shirley Palmer, M.D. 



Ichthyology,* or the study of fishes, although little prosecuted 

 as a branch of Natural History in this country, has ever been, to 

 me, a subject of the deepest interest. The delightful associations 

 of my early years are inseparably connected with it ; and have, 

 perhaps, imparted to the study a charm which, with all its intrinsic 

 attractions to the inquiring mind of the man of science and the na- 

 turalist, it might not otherwise have possessed. The " high-days 

 and holidays" spent by the visionary and enthusiastic school-boy, in 

 solitary rambles with the fishing-rod, on the brink of the tranquil 



• From 'ix^vfy a fisb, and Xoya^ a discourse. 



