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Museum of Giconomic Grotocy. This is to be freely accessible 
to the public at stated periods, in the Department of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Woods and Forests, and Public Works, for the express object 
of exhibiting the practical application of geology to the useful pur- 
poses of life. In this Museum a large store of valuable materials 
has already been collected and arranged, chiefly by the exertions, 
and under the direction of Mr. De la Beche. In it will be exhi- 
bited examples of Metallic Ores, Ornamental Marbles, Building- 
stones and Limestones, Granites, Porphyries, Slates, Clays, 7 
Marls, Brickearths, and Minerals of every kind produced in this 
country, that are of pecuniary value, and applicable to the arts of 
life. Information upon such subjects, thus readily and gratui- 
tously accessible, will be of the utmost practical importance to the 
miner and the mechanic, the builder and the architect, the en- 
gineer, the whole mining interest. and the landed proprietors. ‘The 
establishment will contain also examples of the results of Metallur- 
gic processes obtained from the furnace and the laboratory, with a 
collection of Models of the most improved machinery, chiefly em- 
ployed in mining. A well-stored Laboratory is attached to this 
department, conducted by the distinguished analytical chemist, 
Mr. Richard Phillips, whose duty it already is, at a fixed and mo- 
derate charge, to conduct the analysis of metallic ores, and other 
minerals and soils submitted to him by the owners of mines or pro- 
prietors of land, who may wish for authentic information upon 
such matters. 
The pupils in this laboratory are already actively employed in 
learning the arts of mineral analysis, and the various metallurgic 
processes. 
A second department in the Giconomic Museum will be assigned 
to the promotion of improvements in Agriculture, and will contain 
sections of strata, with specimens of soils, sub-soils, and of the 
rocks from the decomposition of which they have been produced. 
To this last-mentioned collection proprietors of land are solicited 
to contribute from their estates labelled examples of soils, with 
their respective sub-soils ; and all persons who wish for an analysis 
of any sterile soil, for the purpose of giving it fertility, by the arti- 
ficial addition of ingredients with which nature had not supplied 
it, may here obtain, at a moderate cost, an exact knowledge of its 
