168 



earnestness of his utterance, or the wonderful facility and 

 rapidity of his illustrations with the pencil. 



On motion of Rev. E. S. Atwood, it was unanimously 

 voted that an invitation be extended to the Massachusetts 

 Universalis!: Convention, now in session in Salem, to visit 

 the rooms of the Institute and examine the various col- 

 lections of the Association. 



Rev. E. C. Bolles then gave a very interesting and 

 eloquent account of his observations among the various 

 scientific collections of London, during his recent Euro- 

 pean tour. He spoke particularly of the immense library 

 of the British Museum, the South Kensington and Bethnal 

 Green Museums, the National Gallery of Paintings, the 

 Jermyn Street Museum with which Huxley is connected, 

 the East India Museum and the Kew Botanic Gardens, 

 describing their collections, explaining their arrangement 

 and purposes, and expatiating eloquently on their influ- 

 ence upon the useful education of the public. The sums 

 spent for these collections by the government, the men 

 of wealth and the friends of science, seem almost fabu- 

 lous, and their perfection in the several departments is 

 wonderful. 



Mr. Bolles concluded by moving that a new depart- 

 ment be added to the Institute, or put in charge of a 

 ciiratorship already established, viz. : a museum of Tech- 

 nology, or Applied Science. Such a collection had been 

 commenced on a small scale and arranged in the ante- 

 room in such a manner as to make the plan intelligible, 

 and the audience were invited to examine it after the 

 adjournment. The specimens illustrated the different 

 processes in the manufacture of porcelain and pottery, 

 from the crude clay to the highly ornamented and finished 



