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area of the old stables and coach-houses of the 

 " Penrhyn Arms Hotel " ! If the professors and 

 the students in this College I think I may 

 already say this thriving College will be inspired 

 by the zeal of those who have worked before 

 them, a great reward will result even in the first 

 year of the existence of the institution. 



With respect to physical laboratories I may be 

 allowed, without being thought egotistical, to say 

 something in which I must speak of my own 

 action. The physical laboratory in the University 

 of Glasgow is, I believe, the first of the physical 

 laboratories of which we have now so many. 

 When I entered upon the professorship of natural 

 philosophy at Glasgow I found apparatus of a very 

 old-fashioned kind. Much of it was more than a 

 hundred years old, little of it less than fifty years 

 old, and most of it was of worm-eaten mahogany. 

 Still with such appliances year after year students 

 of natural philosophy had been brought together 

 and taught. The principles of dynamics and 

 electricity had been well illustrated and well 

 taught : as well taught as lectures and so imperfect 



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