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Already we see our capital largely employed to import foreign 
talent into our manufactures, and by this, in many cases, we retain 
our superiority. But it does not require much acumen to perceive 
the wretchedness of this policy as regards the nation, which, careless 
of the education of her own sons, sends her capital as a premium to 
the advancement of that intellectual knowledge in foreign states, 
who use it as the means of her destruction. 
Excuse me if I have expressed my convictions on these points 
more strongly than you feel them; but they have taken such strong 
hold on my mind, that I cannot see safety for the future of our nation 
unless by a great and comprehensive improvement in the instruction 
of her people. I shall conclude in the language of Davy, when he 
addressed you on the benefits conferred by this Institution both on 
science and on industry : — 
‘‘There is no country which ought so much to glory in the 
progress of science as this happy island. Science has been a prime 
cause of creating for us the inexhaustible wealth of manufactures ; 
and it is by science that it must be preserved and extended. We 
are interested as a commercial people; we are interested as a free 
people. The age of glory of a nation is also its age of security. 
The same dignified feeling which urges men to gain dominion over 
nations, will preserve them from the dominion of slavery. Natural, 
and moral, and religious knowledge are of one family ; and happy is 
the country, and great its strength, where they dwell together in 
union.” Ce 
In the Library were exhibited: — 
Specimens of Corals and Madrepores; Iodide of Morphia, Gadoli- 
nite, and Sulphate of Strychnia. [Exhibited by T. N. R. Morson, 
Esq. M.R.I.] 
Specimens of Fossil Wood from eight different strata, and a Sword 
from Assam. [Exhibited by Dr. Roxburgh, M.R.I.] 
Large Stereoscopic Talbotype Views of the Interior of the Great 
Exhibition by Wheatstone’s Improved Reflecting Stereoscope. 
[Exhibited by Mr. Henneman. } 
Views of the Interior of the Great Exhibition, and of the Niagara 
Falls—and Portraits of Professors Brande and E. Forbes, 
Dr. Mantell and others, Daguerreotyped by Mr. Mayall. 
Chinese Carving in Tree-Roots —Dog and Monkey. [Exhibited by 
Mr. Sichart.] 
Nassau Candelabrum in Silver by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell. 
Carvings in Wood,— Dead Larks—-Group of Dead Animals — 
Cherub’s Head in Box-wood, by Mr. W. G. Rogers. 
Gems: Diamonds—A Large Emerald, (the property of the Duke 
of Devonshire) — Sapphire, Topaz, &c.—and a Model of the 
Koh-i-noor. [Exhibited by Mr. Tennant. ] 
Models of Moore’s Patent Glass Ventilator, by Messrs. Moore. 
