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College, Belfast, has been done under great diffi- 

 culties and disadvantages, and at great personal 

 sacrifices ; and up to the present time there is not 

 a student's physical laboratory in any one of the 

 Queen's Colleges in Ireland a want which surely 

 ought not to remain unsupplied. Each of these 

 institutions (the four Scotch Universities, the three 

 Ouccn's Colleges, and Owens College, Manchester) 

 requires two professors of Natural Philosophy one 

 who shall be responsible for the teaching, the other 

 for the advancement of science by experiment. 

 The University of Oxford has already established 

 a physical laboratory. The munificence of its 

 Chancellor is about to supply the University of 

 Cambridge with a splendid laboratory, to be 

 constructed under the eye of Professor Clerk 

 Maxwell. On this subject I shall say no more at 

 present, but simply read a sentence which was 

 spoken by Lord Milton in the first Presidential 

 Address to the British Association, when it met at 

 York in the year 1831: "In addition to other 

 '' more direct benefits, these meetings [of the 

 '' British Association], I hope, will be the mean* 



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