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object, probably by combined action with the other great Societies 
in the County. He observed that since the time when the succes- 
sive attempts to establish Mining Schools in Cornwall had been 
tried and abandoned for lack of funds, there had been established 
the system of employing Certificated Teachers under the Science 
and Art Department, with payment according to results of their 
teaching ; and he would suggest that at certain Centres—say, 
Falmouth, Penzance, and Truro—there should be stationed such 
Teachers,—thoroughly competent men, who should itinerate 
weekly from place to place, each giving instruction in the science 
with which he was especially conversant. At Penzance, for 
instance, might be resident a Teacher in Geology and Mineralogy ; : 
at Truro, in connection with this Institution and its laboratory, a 
Teacher in Chemistry ; and at Falmouth, a Teacher in Mechanics 
and other sciences more immediately associated with the Poly- 
technic Society. At each of these places there would thus be 
provided three lectures weekly, furnishing altogether a tolerably 
complete course of scientific instruction in all these districts ; and 
the Teachers would make themselves acquainted with the collec- 
tions and apparatus now lying idle in each town, and render them 
practically useful to their classes. The work of the Miners’ Asso- - 
ciation might at the same time be helped forward. It appeared 
to him that, with the existing arrangements under the Science 
and Art Department, and with the earnest desire now felt gene- 
rally for extended education in science, the Societies in this 
County might, by combination, do something really effectual at 
moderate cost. If the full scheme which he had shadowed forth 
could not be at once carried into effect, there could be nothing to 
prevent their obtaining one good Teacher, who, in addition to 
other means of income, might get some £30 to £40 a year from 
each of the proposed Centres. If a competent man could not be 
obtained in the County, there would be no difficulty in procuring 
one from the Science and Art Department. 
Mr. St. AUBYN expressed entire concurrence in the obser- 
vations on the subject of Education which had been made in the 
Report, and spoken on by Dr. Barham; and he the more readily 
inclined to such concurrence because of the co-operation invited 
from other Societies. His views in favour of such amalgamation 
had not been very popular, either at Penzance, Falmouth, or 
Truro; but probably they were not the less sound on that account. 
He was satisfied that, by a union of the scientific societies in 
Cornwall, they would, without impairing their local efficiency, 
obtain means for effecting a greater amount of good and of still 
more widely distributing information on scientific matters. He 
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