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cultivators have a responsible duty and a noble task. We have 
firm faith in the dignity our work, and in the certainty of good 
results arising from it. ‘This must be our reward; and with it 
we are content, as long as we can, to labor patiently and earnestly 
to the best of our endeavors,—hopeful of the approbation and 
‘cooperation not only of our fellow-laborers in science, but also 
of all intelligent and patriotic Britons. 
- The results so far of the teaching here have been in the main 
highly satisfactory. With the close of last session terminated 
the two years curriculum of the students who entered the Gov- 
ernment School of Mines in 1851. Since their studies are now 
completed, I may speak of the men in the language not of com- 
pliment, for of that there is no necessity, but of unmixed praise. 
[can say this not only for myself but for all my colleagues; and 
we have the delightful satisfaction of anticipating a distinguished 
Scientific and practical career for those who were lately our pu- 
pils, and whom now we number among esteemed friends. Their 
Services are sure to be appreciated and anxiously sought for ; and 
already we have had the pleasure of congratulating some of them 
on the obtainment of highly valuable and honorable posts, for 
which they had become qualified within these walls. 
ith equal satisfaction we can refer to the department of our 
lectures devoted to the instruction of working men. e arti- 
sans of London have eagerly and admirably responded to the 
opportunity so freely offered to them by Government in this In- 
Stitution. They have crowded to our theatre and attended our 
courses with unmistakable earnestness and intelligence. ‘T'o 
address the audience, composed exclusively of working men, as- 
Sembled on these benches on Monday evenings has been a privi- 
Vice abroad, and much is being done by them every day as the 
easure and advantage, and possibly with benefit to the general 
advancement of knowledge. During the time when I had the 
