ADVERTISEMENT. 



MESSRS. HILL, the Conductors and Proprietors 

 of Hazelwood School, near Birmingham, and of the 

 branch establishment at Bruce Castle, Tottenham, 

 near London, being desirous of adding the study of 

 the Physical Sciences to the various departments of 

 liberal education, as conducted in those establishments, 

 I was engaged by them, in the autumn of 1829, to give 

 instruction in those sciences, and, in general, to super- 

 intend the business of the new department, thus intro- 

 duced into the Schools. After some degree of expe- 

 rience had been acquired of the arrangements neces- 

 sary for adapting the truths of science to the appre- 

 hension of youth, and to the business of the Schools, 

 and ascertaining, to a certain extent, the influence of 

 those truths on the minds of the pupils, it was detrr- 

 mined, by the Conductors and myself, that publicity 

 should be given, to our views respecting the introduc- 

 tion of instruction in the Physical Sciences, into the 

 General Education of Youth, in a Public Lecture, to be 

 delivered by me at Hazelwood, and to be subsequently 

 printed, for distribution among the friends of the pupils 

 at both Schools, and published, for the information of 

 those who are interested in the progress of Education, 

 and for that of the scientific world. I accordingly 



