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tistical Society, on the state of Education in the borough of Man- 

 chester, *' would tend more to diffuse the advantages of education 

 among the people, than the extension of similar Institutions to other 

 parts of the town, and to other towns throughout the country, more 

 especially if the terms required, the subjects taught, and still more 

 the manner of teaching them were adapted to interest, attract, and 

 instruct the lower orders, — the really labouring classes of the com- 

 munity. At present, the plan of such Institutions, and the whole 

 course of instruction, is adapted to, and chiefly attended by, a class 

 consideiably superior to the really operative class ; and though not, 

 perhaps, on that account less useful, except as embracing a less nu- 

 merous body of men, it is much to be regretted that Institutions 

 which might be so well fitted to benefit both of these classes of men 

 should not extend their advantages to both." 



For the reasons thus stated, for the universal good it would ac- 

 complish in the amelioration of the present condition of the artizan, 

 for the progressive cultivation of intellect, and for the consequent 

 increase of happiness which must be thereby so widely diffused 

 through classes now too often debased by ignorance and its attend- 

 ant vice, we energetically recommend the admirable Institutions to 

 which we have been thus alluding. 



WORCESTERSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



At a meeting of the Council of this Society, the Honorary Secre- 

 tary, (in the absence of the Honorary Curators), enumerated the 

 following among other donations, received since our last announce- 

 ment : — 



Jardine's edition of Wilson's American Ornithology, 3 vols. 8vo., 

 with coloured plates ; Nycticorax Europseus ; Nucifraga Caryoca- 

 tactes ; Lagopus Mutus ; Parus Cristatus ; Sterna Cantiaca ; Frin- 



filla Nivalis ; Falco Subbuteo ; Totanus Ochropus ; Lanius Minor ; 

 lenura Novae Hollandiae, a specimen of the Lyre Pheasant from 

 New Holland, with several other foreign birds, from B. L. Baker, 

 Esq., Hard wick Court, near Gloucester: nearly 100 specimens in 

 geology and mineralogy, from the coal, green sand, chalk, and 

 other formations in the counties of Hants, Wilts, Somerset and 

 Devon, with several others, — rare and singular, — from the continent, 

 from Thomas Meade, Esq., Chatley Lodge, Bath : various geologi- 

 cal specimens, from J. C. Kent, Esq., Levant Lodge : and two of the 

 Dudley lime-stone, from Mr. E. Gillam, Foregate-street: a nest 

 of the Vespa Carapanaria, found at Walkeringham, Notts, from a 

 gentleman resident there : and also numerous entomological and 

 botanical specimens, from the Rev. F. Orpen Morris, of York. 



The Secretary likewise announced several donations to the Build- 

 ing Fund ; and we trust a sum sufficient to complete the erection of 



