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Museum, and to an Art Library of 25,000 volumes, and a collec- 

 tion of 55,000 engravings and photographs. Last year 107 

 schools were conducted under the "Department" with 20,000 

 pupils ; and in addition to these, elementary drawing was taught 

 in 1,094 schools to 120,928 children. Though art is distinct 

 from science, I think it proper, when speaking of South Kensing- 

 ton, to refer to its work in art as well as in science. Not only is 

 science the handmaid of art, but art is also the handmaid of 

 science, and both must flourish or decay together. More espe- 

 cially the study of art in its application to the wants of ordinary 

 life, cannot fail to be auxiliary to the advancement of science. 

 It is a matter of profound regret that the Boards of Art, organ- 

 ized in this country more than ten years ago, have been permitted 

 to languish, and have not been enabled to establish here institutes 

 on the plan of those of the Department of Science and Art in 

 England. 



THE LONDON UNIVERSITY. 



University College, London, has no organized science school, 

 but it trains men for the Bachelor of Science examination of the 

 London University. This is a general science examination, 

 implying the training necessary for matriculation, and subsequent 

 studies in Physics, Chemistry, Animal Physiology, Geology, 

 Logic, and Moral Philosophy. Bachelors of Science of two 

 years standing can go up for an examination for the degree of 

 Doctor of Science. These science degrees of the University of 

 London do not lead directly to practical work, and this is an 

 important defect in the system, but they are, no doubt, very 

 important as stimuli to the general preparatory training required 

 by every man of science. The Bachelor of Science degree, as 

 offered by the Universty of London, has also undoubtedly tended 

 to raise science to its proper status in connection with the higher 

 education, but it is not as yet largely taken. At the graduation 

 in May last, at which I was present, there were only eleven 

 Bachelors in Science and seventy Bachelors in Arts. This arises 

 in part from the want of prestige and antiquity in the degree 

 itself, and in part from its having to compete with the honours in 

 science which may be taken in courses in arts, and with the 

 special science schools. 



The Birkbeck laboratory of University College accommodat 

 24 practical students; and I was pleased with the ingenious 



