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tion, and have even thrown out timid and faltering 

 suggestions as to wliat should be done; while at 

 the ojjposite pole of society, committees of working 

 men ha\e expressed their conviction that scientific 

 training is tlio one tiling needful for their advance- 

 ment, whether as men, or as workmen. Only the 

 other (liiy, it was my duty to take jiart in the 

 reception of a deputation of London workingmen, 

 Avho desired to learn from Sir Roderick ^lurchison, 

 the Director of the Itoyal School of Minus, whether 

 the organisation of the institution in Jermyn Street 

 could be made available for the supply of that 

 Bcientilic instruction the need of which could not 

 have been ap|)rehended, or stated, more clearly 

 than it was by them. 



The heads of colleges in our great universities 

 (who have not the reputation of being the most 

 mobile of persons) have, in several cases, thought 

 it well that, out of the great number of honours 

 and rewards at their dis])osal, a few should here- 

 after be given to the cultivators of the physical 

 sciences. Nay, 1 hear that some colleges have even 

 gone so far as to a])point one, or, maybe, two special 

 tutors for the ])ur])ose of putting the facts and 

 })rinciples of ])hysical science before the under- 

 graduate mind. vXnd I say it with gratitude and 

 great respect for those eminent ])ersons, that the 

 liead masters of our public schools, Kt(jn, Harrow, 

 AVinchester, have addressed themselves to the 

 ])roblein of introducing instruction in ])hysical 



