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extensive collection of such articles in Britain, if not in Europe 

 or in the world ; and in the same Museum are well-selected illus- 

 trations of entomology and other departnients of zoology, of 

 mineralogy and geology, etc. Adjacent to the Museum is the Watt 

 Institute, receivicg grants from the Department reported in 1885, 

 amounting to £179, where it may be assumed accommodation for 

 classes might be obtained, and where, as in the University contiguous 

 to the ]\Iuseum, accessory studies might be pursued. 



On the Xormol Scliool of Science and lioyal School of Mines in 

 London there were expended in the financial year terminating un 

 31st March 1885, £14,313, 2s. 5d. ; on the Royal College of 

 Science, Dublin, £6804, Is. 4d. ; with £14,056, 15s. lOd. for the 

 Dublin Museum of Science and Art. The expenditure on the 

 Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art was £10,689, 2s. lid., and 

 such an arrangement as has been submitted for consideration above 

 would require, even when fully developed, no such expenditure as 

 these. The expenditure would be entailed largely by provision for 

 the support of students prosecuting their studies. To this I attach 

 no small importance, and it is tliis, in conjunction with the capa- 

 bility of expansion from a small beginning, which in my opinion 

 makes such an arrangement compare favourably with that of a. 

 Professorship of Forestry in the University. 



The arrangements for the support of students is similar, if not 

 identically the same, in London and in Dublin. I take for illustra- 

 tion the Eoyal School of Science in Dublin. This supplies as far 

 as practicable a complete course of instruction in science applicable 

 to the industrial arts, especially those which may be classed broadly 

 under the heads of mining, engineering, and manufactures, and it is 

 intended also to aid in the instruction of teachers for the local 

 Schools of Science. Students may enter as associates or as non- 

 associates. By " associate students " is meant all those who enter 

 for the three years' " curriculum of the college " in any department. 

 There are nine " royal exhibitions" of the value of £50 per annum, 

 entitling the holder to free admission to all the lectures and to the 

 laboratories ; these are tenable for three years. And there are four 

 " royal scholarships" of the value of £50 yearly each. And there are- 

 thirty-six " national scholarships." These are of the value of 30s. it- 

 week during the session of about nine months for three years, and 

 they are tenable at the option of the holders at either the Eoyal 

 College of Science, Dublin, or the lioyal School of Mines, London. 

 They also entitle the holders to free admission to all the lectures 

 and all the laboratories. 



Of the Royal Exhibitions, three are open for competition annually. 

 Of the Royal Scholarships, two are offered for competit'on each year 



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