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beauties. The geologist brings his specimens to 

 the chemist is himself a chemist perhaps brings 

 his crystals to the physical laboratory to be 

 examined as to their physical properties, their 

 hardness, the angles between their faces, their 

 optical qualities. Some people might think this 

 an ignoble way to deal with crystals. But it is 

 not so to the trained eye and deeper thought of 

 the scientific man. The scientific man sees and 

 feels beauty as much as any mere observer as 

 much as any artist or painter. But he also sees 

 something underlying that beauty ; he wishes to 

 learn something of the actions and forces pro- 

 ducing those beautiful results. The necessity for 

 study below the surface seems to have been 

 earliest recognised in anatomy, and earliest carried 

 out in human anatomy. I am not going to speak 

 of the work of scientific research generally, but 

 with reference to the special occasion which brings 

 us here this day the opening of the chemical and 

 physical laboratories of the University College of 

 North Wales. I am going to speak of laboratories 

 for students, laboratories in which the students 



