drawn by the speaker between the British Association and the plan 
’ such an institution, which should have for its business not to teach 
mainly, but to make discoveries—to extend our knowledge of ep 
part of nature by all the appliances which experiment and theory, 
servation and calculation, ingenuity and perseverance can supply; and 
in addition to these, by more material resources, money and a ial 
tude of fellow laborers. He then proceeds:— - < 
“The British Association has now for ten years dischntped the office 
of such an institution as we have spoken of. Considerable funds, raised 
by the-contributions of its members, and expended under its direction, 
have been employed in feethoring and verifying discoveries. It is true 
that we have not attempted to-erect such edifices, and to make such 
preparations for the memes experiment, as Bacon introduces into 
his picture = but we have attained the same end more effectually, by 
procuring the use of many of the great establishments of manufacture 
and commerce which this empire possesses. We have had experiments 
carried on at furnaces and iron-works, on railroads and canals, in mines 
and harbors, with steam engines and steam vessels, upon a scale which 
no institution, however great, could hope to reach; but which has been 
placed in our power by the enlightened: liberality and scientific zeal of 
the proprietors and directors of such means of research. We have not 
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