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the community." After showing in how many ways technology 

 can aid agriculture, he closes with an appeal for their aid on 

 behalf of the national collection. A month later, he delivered 

 two lectures to the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, ' On 

 the objects of Technology and Industrial Museums,' which were 

 afterwards published by request, in a local newspaper having a 

 wide circulation among the working classes, and reprinted. 

 ' Granite and its Derivatives, including Glass, Porcelain, and 

 Aluminium,' was the title under which the lectures were an- 

 nounced, but these only formed a slender frame-work, from 

 which many deviations were made. Those who have not had an 

 opportunity of hearing him lecture, will find in those under 

 notice that combination of scientific facts with poetry, humour, 

 and large-heartedness, which swayed his audiences irresistibly. 

 While, as usual, asking their good offices towards the Scottish 

 Industrial Museum, he made a special appeal to intelligent 

 women, " If from no other motive than this, that they may 

 thereby contribute to increase the means of giving an industrial 

 education to women of the poorer classes, and to multiply the 

 vocations which may keep them from starvation, misery, and 

 crime." 1 



In March, by request of the Pharmaceutical Society, an address 

 was delivered to them, * On Pharmacy as a branch of Techno- 

 logy,' which has been published in the ' Pharmaceutical Journal/ 

 for 1856. It may be supposed how large an amount of corre- 

 spondence was called for by the infant wants of a national insti- 

 tution, forming no small item of each day's duties. We find in 

 a letter the following statement : " ' Wanted, a Monkey from 

 the Zoological Gardens, to write letters to a philosopher's friends. 

 No ape or baboon need apply. The strictest references ex- 

 pected and given. Apply at Elm Cottage, in the writing of 

 the applicants, enclosing a witty, a stupid, and a pathetic, 

 letter.' 



" You see to what I am reduced. Here has a letter from one 

 Daniel Macmillan stared me in the face day after day, and 

 reproached me with unfriendliness, ingratitude, shame/^ss, 



i ' On the'Objects of Technology and Industrial Museums.' Sutherland and Kuo.x. 

 Edinburgh, 1856. 



