July 6, 1882J 



NATURE 



235 



that organisation complete, we are endeavouring to give such 

 instruction to the teachers as will enable them to aid in this 

 business of picking out from the mass of youth under instruc- 

 tion those who are most likely to attain scientific distinction, 

 and to train and inform those who are likely to profit by scientific 

 instruction. 



I am sorry, Sir, that I have detained you so long. It now 

 only remains for me to report to you that, at present, the number 

 of students in the Institution amounts to 19S. I may say, that 

 in only one or two classes is there a slight falling off in numbers. 

 In several the numbers are enlarged, particularly in the metallur- 

 gical class, and in the geological class, in which latter the 

 demand for a system of instruction which has been established 

 here by my colleague, Prof. Judd, has been so considerable, that 

 several have had to be turned away for want of accommodation. 

 You will be glad to know that this system is so thorough and so 

 efficient, that from abroad men are sent to study its working. 

 The whole school is at present in a very healthy condition. 

 Some little difficulties attended its birth, as is very often the 

 case with strong and lusty infants ; but I thiuk our infantile 

 complaints have all now subsided, and I hope that the institution 

 may look forward to a vigorous manhood. 



General Martin was then called upon to read the names of the 

 successful students. He said : The ceremony to-day of neces- 

 sity came so closely onto the heels of the examinations, that the 

 general lists could not possibly be made up. Only those awards, 

 therefore, would appear to-day which could be ascertained in 

 time. For this same reason we may hope that some other 

 gentlemen, in addition to those who receive the Associateship 

 to-day, will be found to be qualified, and receive it hereafter. 



The following names were then read, and the certificates and 

 prizes were delivered by the Chairman : — 



List of Students who are to receive Associateshifs, June, 1 882 



A. W. Day 



F. W. Harbord. 



G. Kamensky . 



F. L. Cepero 



G. Koss Divett . 

 J. £. Green 



J. P. Walton . 

 F. L. I' Anson ., 



M. Staniland 



F. T. Barnett . 

 J. II. White 



1st Class 

 1st Class 

 1st Class 

 2nd Class 

 1st Class 

 2nd Class 

 1st Class 

 2nd Class 

 ' 1st Class 

 2nd Class 

 1st Class 

 1st Class 



Mining 

 Metallurgy 



Mining 



Metallurgy 



Mining 

 Metallurgy 

 Mining 

 Metallurgy 



Award 0/ Prizes, Scholarship, &-<:., June, 1SS2 



__. v. _> e v 1 v i H. F. Collins 



2nd Years Scholarships R. T. Bodey 



iA. Sutton 

 H. W. Hughes 

 T Mather 

 H. G. Graves 



' Forbes " 

 'Murchison" ... 

 'Tyndall" 

 ' De la Beche " 



'Bessemer" ... 



Medals, &*c. 



C. T. Gahan 

 H. "F. Collins 

 W. T. Burgess 

 C. H. Powell 

 1 J. J. Hood (1880-81) 

 F. W. Harbord 



Chemistry Prize, " Hodgkinson "... C. A. White 



The Chairman : — Mr. Dean, ladies and gentlemen, in the 

 discharge of tbe duties of my office I have seldom had to perform 

 a more interesting duty than the one I have just fulfilled, of 

 distributing the awards to the successful students on this occa- 

 sion. I am not going to detain you at this hour with a speech, 

 especially as you have had a most excellent a 'dress from that 

 master of science and oratory, the Dean of our Normal School. 

 It would not only be bad taste, but it would be a great indiscre- 

 tion on my part, if surrounded by men so eminent in science, I 

 ventured to talk to this audience on any scientific question. All 

 I have to express is my great gratification in being in the 

 humblest degree instrumental in bringing the Normal School to 

 its last phase, and to its present position. I am sorry that my 

 noble friend, the Lord President of the Council, who is at this 

 moment discharging also the arduous duties of Lord Lieutenant 

 of Ireland, is not here to day to preside over this interesting 

 ceremony, for he took the greatest possible interest in the re. 



organisation of the school, and of bringing it into the position 

 which fulfils so admirably the conditions of usefulness which 

 Prof. Huxley has so well described to you. 



Wt have all felt in tbe words which fell from Col. Donnelly 

 how much science and art in this country and in this place owe 

 to the late Sir Henry Cole, and I should not feel satisfied to 

 address this audience without expressing my own deep conviction 

 of the great service which he rendered to his country, services 

 which will endure for generations and centuries, the value of 

 which we only yet very imperfectly realise. Prof. Huxley 

 pointed out how slow the growth of science teaching in this 

 country had been as compared with the success of art-teaching. 

 It is hardly to be wondered at how much more easy it is to 

 appreciate beauty and art as applied to industry than to see at 

 once the advantages which science confers on industry. Even 

 the most superficial of us who have lived for the last thirty years 

 cannot walk through the streets of London, cannot look into any 

 ordinary shop, or look into a shop window, without being struck 

 with the marvellous change which has come over the textile and 

 metallic productions of this country in the way of their artistic 

 character. There is nothing so remarkable as the change which 

 has taken place in our curtains, or carpets, or hangings, or furni- 

 ture, or decorations, in everything admitting of the application 

 of art to our common life. There is nothing more charming or 

 more agreeable to realise, but it is not so easy to understand the 

 enormous value and importance of scientific instruction, as it is 

 to appreciate at once the advantages of art training. The in- 

 fluence which ait has had on the industry of this country through 

 the instrumentality, I think, in the first instance, of the late Prince 

 Consort, and the men who surrounded him thirty years ago at 

 the exhibition of 1S51 — that influence is something incalculable, 

 I believe, not only in its advantages to those of us who enjoy the 

 pleasure of these more interesting surroundings, but also in the 

 industry of the country, and in the extent of its employment and 

 manufacture, and the hundreds and thousands of people who are 

 benefited by an increase of our export trade. But we have, 

 and I am glad to know that the manufacturers of this country 

 are beginning to realise it, been far behind in science-teaching. 

 We have been behind our neighbours in France and Germany, 

 and other countries. They have within the last twenty or thirty 

 years made prodigious efforts, and are still making prodigious 

 efforts to apply science to individual industry, and to avail them- 

 selves of the resources of science in order to improve their 

 manufactures and to develop the resources of their country in 

 order that they may successfully compete with us in the markets 

 of the world. I know nothing so astonishing as the lavish ex- 

 penditure and the prodigious efforts that France and Germany 

 have made within the last ten years to increase science teaching 

 in those countries. However, if we have been slow in our 

 growth, I am not at all disheartened, because I believe it has 

 been sure, and, as Prof. Huxley has told you, it is better fitted 

 to the circumstances and wantsi of our country, probably, than 

 the Government-created institutions which have prevailed abroad. 

 I do not want for one moment to anticipate the report of the 

 Royal Commission on technical education which is now pursuing 

 its inve-ligations. I am quite sure that Commission will lay 

 before Parliament and the country not only a most interesting, 

 but a most startling report ; but at the same time I am not at all 

 afraid that we are so behind that we cannot adapt ourselves to 

 the circumstances of the case, and that we shall not continue to 

 hold our own in the industrial progress of the future as we have 

 in the past. 



Prof. Huxley told you that, twenty-five years ago, in our pro- 

 vincial towns, and even in London, there was hardly any oppor- 

 tunity for scientific instruction. I know in my own early days 

 the only opportunity an inquiring young man had was to be 

 found in the classes of Mechanics' Institutions, where some 

 amateur student of science was willing to convey to his fellows 

 some share of the little knowledge which he himself possessed. But 

 anything like systematic scientific instruction was utterly unknown 

 in the great centre of industries of this kingdom thirty years ago. 

 To-day, in connection with the Science and Art Department, there 

 are 1760 teachers, at least, principal teachers, I am excluding 

 assistants There are 60,000 students in schools receiving grants 

 from the Government, in connection with the Science and Art 

 Department. There are about 200 students that we have here 

 in this institution, 50 of whom are in training as teachers, 

 and there are 200 science teachers who come from the pro- 

 vinces ever year to receive short courses of instruction, with 

 their travelling expenses paid, and an allowance made to them 



