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tions in Chemistry, delivered at the Laboratory of the Cork In- 
stitution to a Class of Medical and other Students. This was 
the first Course of the kind ever delivered in the city of Cork, 
and has been greatly extolled by the highly respectable class 
which attended it. It is with much satisfaction we have heard 
that it is Mr. Davy’s intention to. deliver a course of a similar na- 
ture next vear. 
One of his pupils has favoured us with some of his paler A 
observations. In addressing Medical Students he said, ‘* As 
Chemistry forms an indispensable part of your profession, it is 
not a mater of choice, but of mecessily, that you acquire a com- 
petent knowledge of this science. The sooner you are initiated 
into the principles and doctrines of chemistry, the better. The 
acquisition will not only be important in itself, but it will derive 
additional value from the early habits of application with which 
it will furnish you ;—habits which will be always useful, and which 
you may immediately transfer to every other pursuit. Whilst you 
are attending lectures on chemistry, and studying the best ele- 
mentary works on the science, you ought to be furnished at least 
with a small apparatus (which may be done at a triflmg expense), 
and make experiments yourselves. —The information you will thus 
gain, will make a deep and lasting impression, and will in fact 
be more valuable than that which you can acquire by any other 
means. 
You have chosen a useful, an honourable, but au arduous pro- 
fession; you all, I trust, anticipate the day, when you shall at- 
tain eminence and Be erctings in it; when the talents, which now 
in the season of youth you are cultivating with assiduity, shall 
grow up and be matured in flourishing manhood, and not only re- 
flect lustre on your own name, but confer honour upon your coun- 
try. And why not? In every liberal art, in every useful science, 
eminence is the reward of labour. It is a proud distinction which 
no power on earth is competent to confer ; a tribute due only 
to industry ; nor is it ever paid but as the price of individual and 
active exertions. 
The highest motives are not wanting to awaken in you a lau- 
dable and generous ambition ;—reputation, influence’ rank, and 
property, are distinctions equally open to the talents of every in- 
dividual, and they particularly inyite you to honourable exertion, 
Animated by a noble emulation, inspired by an ardent enthu- 
siasm, you can scarcely fail of ultimately attaining the proud and 
enviable summit of excellence. 
So interesting is the study of chernistry (independently of its 
professional applications) that the pursuit of it in early life will 
not dispose \ Bs i cast it off with the playthings of childhood, 
or the amusements of youth, A taste for this science, when once 
imbibed, 
