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ia engineering in the Indian Public Works Department, and also 

 for entering on the higher branches of the engineering profession. 

 The course extends over three years. It had only twenty students 

 last year. 



Another and most interesting feature of Owen's College, suited 

 to its position in a great manufacturing town, is the provision 

 made for evening classes. These include the subjects of the 

 general course, and also a pharmaceutical course intended to 

 prepare chemists and druggists for the examinations under the 

 Pharmacy Act. Most of the students in these classes are what 

 we would call partial students ; but some study for the degree of 

 B.A. of London University. The intention of the college is to 

 accommodate those whose business engagements prevent them 

 from attending lectures in the day time; and the number of 

 students last year was no less than 400. This is a remarkable 

 indication of the avidity for learning on the part of the young 

 business men of Manchester, who enter on this somewhat severe 

 course of study as an employment for their evenings, and after 

 the toils of the day. It is further to be considered that many of 

 these young men have to walk or drive considerable distances in 

 order to attend these classes ; but in all the cities of England 

 distance is much less regarded than it is in this country. Prof 

 Roscoe delivers a separate course of lectures on chemistry to 

 women, which, I was informed, had been successful, though I did 

 not note the number of students. The authorities of the college 

 have under consideration the establishment of a regular academical 

 course for women, which will be largely of a scientific character. 



Owen's College has its class rooms at present in an old building 

 adapted to its use ; but an elegant new building is now in process 

 of erection at a cost of £90,000, and a sum of £130,000 is said 

 to have been raised as a building fund. The foundation stone of 

 this building was publicly laid in September last. It is to be 

 observed that Mr. Owen wisely prohibited any portion of his 

 endowment fund being expended in buildings, and that the 

 Government of Great Britain has given no aid to Owen's College, 

 so that this large sum is a product of private munificence, chiefly 

 in the town of Manchester. 



SCIENCE TEACHING AT CAMBRIDGE. 



The two great English Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 

 are obviously not content to lie under the aspersion some time ago 



