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have been closed by another, as to where they have never been 
opened. There are no institutions for Science teaching at Sheffield or 
Rotherham, none at Bradford, Dewsbury, Rochdale, Newark, Stoke- 
upon-Trent, Coventry, Birkenhead, Sunderland, and a vast number 
of other towns constituting the centre of trade or manufacture, and 
whilst we find in the list such important localities as Alderly Edge 
with a diminishing class of 14, Breage with 12, Clitheroe also with 
a decreasing school of 12, Congleton with 21, Cottesmore with 22, 
Denton with 10, Guisborough with 7, Kettering and Kingsbridge 
with 21 and 12 respectively, and a number of other similar places 
of whose existence many of our readers are probably not aware, we 
are cheered by finding that Leeds has one school with 39 students, 
and that 12 persons in all are receiving instruction in Science in 
the important town of Wolverhampton. 
These, then, are some of the towns in which the schools have 
either been closed, or have never been opened; now let us turn for 
a moment to the condition of some of the more important ones still 
in existence—but which cannot long continue open unless the present 
system of granting aid is changed—and for this purpose we shall pass 
beyond the printed reports of the department and avail ourselves 
also of those which we have ourselves received from various parts of 
the country. 
The following are the statistics of the department which show 
how some of the most important schools have declined or are de- 
clining :— 
Number of Pupils. 
Name of Town. Institution. 1864. 1865. 1866, 1867. 
Bolton -. +» Mechanics’ Institute .. 50 55 95 79 
Burnley 36 ra 69 24 60 48* 
Cardiff .. .. Free Library omuiger = — 56 42 
Halifax ..  .. Working Men’s Colleg 21 38 15 17 
Huddersfield .. Mechanics’ Institution 20 33 26 16 
Liverpool .. .. School of Science He 125 37 28 68+ 
Manchester .. Mechanics’ Institute .. 291 281 388 239 
Corporation Street .. 52 52 42 36 
Nottingham .. Mechanics’ Institute .. 17 82 75 35 
Oldham .... ‘Parish Church Schools 149 85 —— its) 
Salford .. .. Working Men’s College 65 41 53 44 
Slough ss 41 66 65 62 
Torquay .. .. School ofScience.. .. — _ 70 36 
Wigan ee minor Schoolers irs. 92 93 30 23t 
Yarmouth .. .. Navigation School .. 146 163 139 112$ 
Aberdeen .. .. Mechanics’ Institute .. 48 34 91 69 
Thus it will be seen that besides the fact of there being no 
schools at all in a considerable number of our most important 
* This year this school has still further declined; the number of pupils 
being 45. 
t Again falling off this year. 
} This school was to have been closed this year, but a visit from an emissary of 
the department has revived it after a fashion. 
§ Still further decreased this year ; number of pupils 85. 
