BY J. W. SUTTON. XIII. 



where both can be employed in peace and security, while at the 

 same time it is being so lavishly expended in foreign lands where 

 the danger of losing both is a factor always to be reckoned with. 

 Our pastoral, agricultural, and mining capabilities know no 

 bounds, and yet so little has been done to give our rising genera- 

 tions that rightful and necessary amount of scientific education, 

 to enable them to utilize and make the best uses of that which 

 nature has so abundantly bestowed upon them and placed at their 

 disposal. It is true a small beginning has been made in the 

 Agricultural College, where the farming youth can leavn the 

 science of his own industry, and it is gratifying to learn that at 

 last we are to have a University and School of Mines, and let us 

 hope that, when these are an established fact, no niggardly 

 hand will guide them in the selection of management, and that 

 we shall be in a position to impart to the students 

 learning at least equal to those of older colonies. While re- 

 marking on this subject, it may not be out of place to state that 

 the thanks of the Queensland public are due to those gentlemen 

 who formed the committee of the Brisbane School of Arts in 

 former years, who undertook and successfully supplied a want of 

 secondary education, by the nursing under very great ditticulties 

 to maturity the Brisbane Technical College, which is now 

 rendering such good service in the cause of technical education. 

 But the limited means at their disposal, and want of adequate 

 accommodation and apparatus, is very discouraging to those 

 who give their time and labour in carrying on the work, a work 

 which deserves, and is entitled to, as much sympathy and support, 

 as either the Agricultural College, University, or a School of 

 Mines. 



The rapid progress of applied Chemistry in recent years has 

 so combined itself with every industry that no prosperous, well- 

 regulated manufactory is now without its chemical or physical 

 laboratory, according to the arts or occupation for which it is 

 designed to benefit. Chemistry is concerned with the most 

 common acts of our ordinary life, and it is literally true that 

 there is not a moment in which we do not hold the infinite in 

 our hands. Of chemists themselves, the men who have studied 

 the various forms of matter, and have gradually and surely 

 brought it to the point and perfection it has reached at the 

 present time, belonged to various nations. In our own country 

 we had Professor Black, the most methodical of men ; Priestly, 



