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effect an immediate improvement in education have to contend 

 with ; in fact, it is insuperable. Schoolmasters must be trained and 

 qualified before any sound and extended system of education can be 

 adopted with effect. How this can be best done, and what should 

 be a schoolmaster's qualifications, should be immediately inquired 

 into. Upon the other three points we also entertain strong opi- 

 nions ; we think that so important a business as national education 

 ought not to be left to casual charity ; we do not think that each 

 school should be allowed to receive the character which the caprice of 

 a patron, the ignorance of a schoolmaster, or some other such acci- 

 dent may chance to give it. While, with regard to the last point, 

 we cannot but admire, and desire to see imitated, the enlightened 

 policy of Prussia in this particular. 



For the present, we shall content ourselves with this brief no- 

 tice of the society, with the intention of returning to a considera- 

 tion of its objects and proceedings in a later number. 



The qualification for members of the society is one pound annu- 

 ally, or one sum of ten pounds ; and we trust that the friends of 

 education will not hesitate to come forward to support it when they 

 know that among the members of the Commitee are — M. De Mor- 

 gan, the Mathematician — Mr. Lay, the late Editor of the Journal 

 of Education— Mr. Ewart, M.P.— Mr. Hawes, M.P.— Sir C. 

 Lemon, the President of the Statistical Society — Sir W. Moles- 

 worth, M.P. — the Lord Advocate— Sir R. Musgrave, M.P. — Mr. 

 W. S. O'Brien, M.P. — Mr. Porter, Vice-president of the Statistical 

 Society— Mr. Poulett Scrope, MP.— Mr. Shutt, M.P.— Mr. Ser- 

 jeant Talfourd, M.P. — Mr. Parden, Librarian of the House of 

 Commons — Mr. Ward, M.P. — Mr. Wyse, M.P., the Chairman 

 of the Committee — and Lord Denman (who, in the House of Lords, 

 said that for the State to have a right to punish, it must educate) is 

 President. B. F. Duppa, Esq., is the Honorary Secretary. 



ST. JAMES'S ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



This Society is instituted for the purpose of forming a collection 

 of water birds in the garden of St. James's Park ; and its operations 

 will subsequently be extended to the waters in the other parks, if 

 the funds of the society be found sufficient. The first object will 

 be to exhibit a complete collection of British A?iatidw, both resident 

 and migratory. The Society already possesses a considerable num- 

 ber of the desired species, and has, besides, some specimens belong- 

 ing to other genera. It is intended to keep the whole, as far as 

 practicable, in a state of nature, and the collection, being formed in 

 the public parks, will, of course, be open to the view of every one. 



