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Technology and Industrial Museums," which were after- 

 wards published by request, in a local newspaper having a 

 wide circulation among the working classes, and reprinted. 

 " Granite and its Derivatives, including Glass, Porcelain, and 

 Aluminium," was the title under which the lectures were 

 announced, but these only formed a slender frame- work, 

 from which many deviations were made. Those who have 

 not had an opportunity of hearing him lecture will find in 

 those under notice that combination of scientific facts with 

 poetry, humour, and large-heartedness, which swayed his 

 audiences irresistibly. While, as usual, asking their good 

 offices towards the Scottish Industrial Museum, he made a 

 special appeal to intelligent women, " If from no other 

 motive than this, that they may thereby contribute to in- 

 crease the means of giving an industrial education to women 

 of the poorer classes, and to multiply the vocations which 

 may keep them from starvation, misery, and crime." 1 



In March, by request of the Pharmaceutical Society, an 

 address was delivered to them, " On Pharmacy as a branch 

 of Technology," which has been published in the " Pharma- 

 ceutical Journal," for 1856. It may be supposed how large 

 an amount of correspondence was called for by the infant 

 wants of a national institution, forming no small item of 

 each day's duties. We find in a letter the following state- 

 ment : " ' Wanted, a Monkey from the Zoological Gardens 

 to write letters to a philosopher's friends. No ape or baboon 

 need apply. The strictest references expected and given. 

 Apply at Elm Cottage, in the writing of the applicants, 

 enclosing a witty, a stupid, and a pathetic letter,' 



" You see to what I am reduced. Here has a letter 

 from one Daniel Macmillan stared me in the face day after 



1 " On the Objects of Technology and Industrial Museums." 

 Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh. 



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