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for the scnson, when he died of an inflammation of the bowels, of 

 only six days duration, brought on, it is to be feared, by labour 

 beyond his physical strength. 



Mr. Hartley had rare qualities, and remarkable acquirements. 

 His acquaintance with chemistry and mineralogy, as well as with 

 geology, mining and mechanics, was singularly acurate and extend- 

 ed for one of his years, but his habits of study and intense appli- 

 cation explained his remarkable attainments. Added to this his 

 moral and social qualities had made for him, wherever known, a 

 great number of friends. He was a Fellow of the Geological 

 Societies of London and France; a member of the institute of 

 Ensrineers of Scotland; of the institute of Minion; and Enc^ineer- 

 ing of the North of England, and of various local societies. 



T. s. H. 



Geographical Science. — The question of higher Geographi- 

 cal education, mooted a few days since, through a contemporary by 

 a distinguished Fellow of the E,oyal Geographical Society, is of so 

 much importance to the educational world, and of such absorbing 

 interest to myself personally, as to lead me to solicit a brief space 

 in your columns. It is not now for the first time that the neces- 

 sity of obtaining the recognition of geographical science on the 

 part of the leading educational bodies — i. e., the Universities — 

 has been indicat3d as the absolutely indispensable condition to 

 its culture in our his/her schools and colleo-es. Reference to your 

 own columns will show that this was pointed out by myself long 

 since [TheAthenceum, No. 2100), and that I urged the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society to a course of action which might help to bring 

 about a consummation so eargerly desired by workers who, like 

 myself, have employed years of active exertion in promoting the 

 pursuit of a study which, in regard to its higher aims, is less re- 

 cognized- — even, T will go vo far as to say, less understood — in the 

 schools of Britain than in those of any other country of Europe. 

 Educated foreigners recfard with astonishment the fact that, 

 amongst a nation which forms the central point of commerce and of 

 colonial enterprise to the modern world — whose merchants have 

 dealings with every land, and whose statesmen require to take 

 cognizance of the climatic and other geographical conditions of 

 dependencies that lie under the most widely-separated meridians 

 — the culture of Geography, in its higher sense, passes without 

 recognition on the part of those who of necessity give the tone to 



