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themselves from books, the Educational Department determined to 
insti s ur 
ere they were occupied in examining the structures in 
question, and verifying the statements they had heard. Each student 
was required to take notes, and to make drawings of all points 
of importance, and on the following morning to give them up to the 
demonstrators. Caré! was also taken that the subjects treated of 
should illustrate the larger division of the whole of the organic 
world. The stud 
undue importance to some one group of beings in organised nature. 
The next year’s teaching included a much larger number of forms 
selected from the animal kingdom only, but Prof. Huxley recom- 
mended a series of leetures on advanced Botany for those who wished 
to extend their knowledge of the vegetable world, and Prof. Dyer 
and himself made the necessary arrangements. Difficulties had to be 
contended with, but the progress which had been made was not so 
to similar instruction being given in all the other great schools of our 
land.—The President and Prof. Balfour perfectly agreed that the new 
a ah! Che 
Government had perm to be given at South Kensington there were 
very considerable advantages arising from the so men who were 
students ey were most eager to learn, being professionally them- 
and merino sheep had introduced one obnoxious plant, Xanthium 
spinosum, into the sheep-walks of South Africa. Its fruit getting 
into the wool, and seriously injuring ‘its value, the Government 
had legislated for its compulsory destruction. In the Orange River 
Free State, where there was n0 
lately, wool had become deteriorated nearly 50 per cent. But sheep 
