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nected with the progress of society and the realities 

 of life the courses of instruction in Natural Science 

 to be such as are taught in our Universities, but cast 

 in a more popular form. That the people of Scot- 

 land are fully prepared for the acceptance of such a 

 scheme of education, we would infer from the at- 

 tendance of artisans upon those lectures on Natural 

 Science that are delivered in our mechanics' schools ; 

 also from the presence of the middle classes in the 

 hall of a provincial town, when a course of lectures 

 is there delivered on any of the Physical Sciences ; 

 and also from the attendance both of the upper and 

 middle classes in the sections of the Scientific Asso- 

 ciation during their sittings in our larger towns. 



SUGGESTIONS. 



Let the following courses of Lectures be insti- 

 tuted : 



1. Mechanical Philosophy. 



2. Chemistry. 



3. Geology. 



4. Astronomy. 



5. Electricity. 



6. Natural History. 



7. Agriculture, Horticulture, and Floriculture. 



8. Social Science. 



There would be thus a series of lectures one of 



