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applicable. The class of Chemists is taught to manipulate or make ex- 

 periments by a very distinguished chemist — Rammelsburg — well known 

 among scientific men. Indeed several professors of the University give 

 lectures in this institution. 



At Berlin, all the apparatus of education, as well as the most distin- 

 guished men, are congregated, so that every institution located there 

 cannot but be well supplied. The Prussian government well under- 

 stands the perfection and efficiency to be derived from concentration. 



The Artizan's School is also supplied with a most complete and ad- 

 mirable set of philosophical apparatus ; with well appointed work-shops, 

 and an engineer's shop ; with e\ery description of models in the useful 

 arts; with a rich gallery of plaster casts of the most celebrated pieces of 

 sculpture ; with a full and appropriate library ; and with a reading-room 

 containing all the scientific journals of Germany, France, England, and 

 America. 



When I entered the Royal Academy, 1 expected to find merely a 

 school of artists : what was my surprise to find there also a school of 

 mechanics ! I found there indeed two hundred young men receiving 

 instruction as artists simply : but I found there besides, thirteen hundred 

 mechanics receiving instruction in the arts of design — house-builders, 

 house-painters, smiths — indeed men of every trade to which the arts of 

 design are applicable. The system of instruction embraced a complete 

 course, from the simplest elements of drawing, up to drawing and mod- 

 elling from the living figure. These pupils paid one dollar a year, and 

 were taught by finished artists. 



In speaking of the Agricultural Schools, I shall not refer to Prussia 

 in particular. The chief Agricultural School of Prussia, which I had 

 intended to visit, was closed for the summer vacation when I reached 

 there. I visited, however, the school at Hoheuheim, near Stuttgart, 

 which claims pre-eminence over all the othei-s, and has served as a gen- 

 eral model. I visited also a model farm near Leipsic, and a model fanu 

 and school near Munich. I found that t\hat we call agricultural science 

 is widely diff'used through Germany in the instruction and lectures of 

 the Gymaasia, the Universities, and the Artizan Schools. Chemical 

 science in its wide scope has really come to embrace what is strictly the 

 science of Agriculture. 



