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This statement is fully corroborated by inform- 

 ation, on good authority, which I have received 

 from Germany, to the effect that in Prussia " every 

 " university, every polytechnical academy, every in- 

 dustrial school (Realschule and Gewerbeschule), 

 " most of the grammar-schools, in a word, nearly 

 " all the schools superior in rank to the elementary 

 " schools of the common people, are supplied with 

 " chemical laboratories and a collection of philo- 

 u sophical instruments and apparatus, access to 

 " which is most liberally granted by the directors of 

 " those schools, or the teachers of the respective 

 " disciplines, to any person qualified, for scientific 

 " experiments. In consequence, though there exist 

 " no particular institutions like those mentioned 

 " in the memorial there will scarcely be found a 

 "town exceeding in number 5,000 inhabitants but 

 " offers the possibility of scientific explorations at 

 " no other cost than reimbursement of the expense 

 " for the materials wasted in the experiments." 



Further, with reference to a remark in the Me- 

 morial to the effect that, in respect to the pro- 

 motion of science, the British Government confines 

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