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Manual, Dr. Henry's Elements, Dr. Turner's Elements of 

 Chemistry, and his work on the Laws of Combination, and 

 on the Atomic Theory, Dr. Paris's Medical Chemistry, Sir 

 H. Davy's Agricultural Chemistry, and Mr. Faraday's Che- 

 mical Manipulation*. 



In Mineralogy and Geology, Phillips's " Outlines" of those 

 sciences, Conversations on Mineralogy, and portions of Cony- 

 beare and Phillips's Outlines of the Geology of England and 

 Wales. 



In Natural History, the volume on Vegetable Substances 

 (Timber-trees and Fruits), the Menageries, and the Insect Ar- 

 chitecture and Transformations, of the Library of Entertaining 

 Knowledgef. 



It may now be proper to say a few words on the means em- 

 ployed from time to time, for the purpose of ascertaining, and 

 also of rewarding and encouraging, the progress of the pupils, 

 in these various exercises. With regard to the Lectures, this 

 has been partly effected in the re-consideration of them by the 

 Classes ; and at suitable periods the entire number of pupils 

 attending the Lectures, have had questions addressed to them, 

 collectively, which they have been required to answer in 

 writing, individually ; and they have then taken rank in the 

 department of Physical Science, according to the accuracy 

 of their replies. With respect to the separate Classes, exa- 

 minations have been instituted, every week, or every fortnight; 



* An objection might perhaps be raised to the perusal of this work, on 

 the apparently valid ground of the inutility of the mere reading of a train of 

 minute directions for the performance of experiments. It has however 

 been selected, spontaneously, by a pupil at Hazelwood, and another 

 (designed for the medical profession) at Bruce Castle, for their own respec- 

 tive perusal, and has been read by them with great delight, as well as to 

 their manifest improvement in the art of experimenting. The detail of 

 manual operations is indeed in general interesting to boys, and many facts 

 might be adduced, proving the utility of acquiring knowledge of this descrip- 

 tion, which becomes insensibly recalled by the memory, as the operations to 

 which it relates are practised. 



Dr. Turner's Elements of Chemistry, and Mr. Faraday's Chemical Mani- 

 pulation, at one School, and Dr. Henry's Elements, together with Mr. 

 Faraday's work, at the other, have been always kept in the Laboratory, for 

 reference, and for the use of the assistants to the Teacher of Physical Sci- 

 ence, and that of other boys who might be privileged to have access to it, 

 out of school-hours. 



f At each School there is a Library of a general nature, from which every 

 boy is permitted to borrow books for his own perusal in his leisure hours, 

 and these Libraries contain some of the works enumerated above, and also 

 other scientific publications ; so that every one may select for his recreation 

 such works as may be agreeable to his particular taste, and may also, if he 

 pleases, convert his amusements into means of further advancement in his 

 studies, whether in the Physical Sciences, or in any other department of 

 Education. 



