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newly-instituted Government School of Mines, and 

 of Science applied to the Arts, and the officers by 

 whom the courses of instruction were to be given, were 

 as follows : 



President Sir Henry T. De la Beche, C.B., F.R.S. 



Chemistry, applied to the Arts and Agriculture Lyon Playfair, 

 Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Natural History, applied to Geology and the Arts Edward 

 Forbes, F.R.S. 



Mechanical Science, with its Applications to Mining Robert 

 Hunt, Keeper of Mining Records. 



Metallurgy, with its Special Applications John Percy, M.D., 

 F.R.S. 



Geology, and its Practical Applications A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. 



Mining and Mineralogy Warington W. Smyth, M.A., F.G.S. 



His acceptance of the lectureship of geology in 

 this institution rendered it necessary that Ramsay 

 should vacate his chair at University College. On 

 the 1 5th June he sent in his formal letter of resigna 

 tion. There was a disposition on the part of some of 

 the College authorities not to continue the professorship 

 after he should give it up, but to send the students to 

 him at the School of Mines. He himself, however, 

 was adverse to this proposal, and the idea was 

 abandoned. The teachers of the School did not 

 aspire to be called Professors, and Smyth used 

 almost angrily to resent the appellation. But Ramsay 

 having for four years worn the gown in a chartered 

 college, the name of Professor continued to be given 

 to him, in accordance with the northern proverb, Once 

 a bailie, aye a bailie. 



The preparation of lectures for the new school was 

 a much less arduous task than that which presented 

 itself to him four years before. The course he had 

 given at University College would suffice for his 



