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minute kinds of examination. We find witliin a few yards or a few feet of each other, 

 springs largely impregnated with certain constituents, and springs entirely free from 

 these, but abounding in others of a different description, and all of these springs well- 

 marked, distinct, perennial in flow, varying within very narrow limits in composition, 

 and within those limits remaining the same for centuries. Simply to refer the strata in 

 the localities where these springs break forth to one or other series of rocks, or even to a 

 single formation, will do very little to aid the attempt to determine where and how the 

 water which originally descended in a pure state as rain, has received its saline or 

 gaseous impregnations. The part which pure chemistry has commenced is to make 

 exact analyses of many waters, and to collect accounts of such, scattered as they gene- 

 rally are, in scientific journals, or in the hands of the proprietors of springs. 



Hereafter we may have to examine more extensively and more strictly the sources 

 of their ingredients, but it is the first of these tasks which, so far as V'orkshire is con- 

 cerned, the present report attempts in some degree, and to the extent of present ex- 

 isting materials, to accomplish. Much, it will be seen, remains to be done in the way 

 of exact analyses ; but there is sufficient to show that for those engaged in such investi- 

 gations, this county, especially in the West Riding, offers a very copious field for 

 research. 



Omitted in the Report for 1843. 



On Industrial Education. By Henry Biggs. 



After alluding to the historical facts connected with this subject, the author argued 

 that the alternation of physical with mental exercise is not only beneficial in respect 

 of health to youth, but especially valuable in inducing habits of early industry and 

 order among the children of the poor. He gave minute statistics of the following 

 schools from personal observation -. — 



Upper Norwood, a contractor's establishment, 1100; Lower Norwood, a school for 

 the pauper children of Lambeth, 300 ; Tooting, a contractor's establishment, 300 ; 

 Limehouse, a district school for the children of the Stepney union, 400 ; Ealing, a 

 school founded and endowed by Lady Noel Byron, for the sons of peasantry, 110. 



