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special attention. The separate report on these is a very 

 interesting document ; the weaving department had 78 and the 

 dyeing department 58 students. The second year students 

 made several of the coal-tar colours, starting with benzol, a 

 most important matter, to which I purpose reverting later. 

 Including a sum of ^15,000 donation (besides an endowment of 

 ^1,250 a year) from the Cloth workers' Company of London, 

 the public subscriptions to the general and building funds of 

 the Yorkshire College, at the time the report alluded to was 

 issued last summer, amounted to over ^"82,000 ! Besides the 

 varied technical instruction given at Anderson's College, Glas- 

 gow (for the calendar of which for the present session I am 

 indebted to Mr. James Barnett), and which includes, with 

 special prominence, applied mechanics and chemistry, the city 

 of Glasgow has lately established its separate technical college ; 

 but up to the present the weaving branch is, I believe, the only 

 one that has got started. The syllabus for the present session, 

 which I have received, shows that full practical instruction on 

 the looms themselves, and in a great variety of fabrics, is here 

 given. It is satisfactory to know that the authorities of Queen's 

 College here are alive to the necessity of keeping abreast of the 

 times in the proper teaching of those branches of science to 

 which I have been specially alluding. The accommodation and 

 appliances that were sufficient over thirty years ago for giving 

 instruction in natural philosophy and chemistry are now, with 

 the changes that have occurred within this period, no longer 

 adequate ; and it is the intention of the college authorities, 

 supported by the Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, and 

 the borough members, to apply to Government for a grant of 

 some ^"10,000 to provide the additional accommodation and 

 apparatus required. On behalf of this, the oldest scientific 

 society in Belfast, I purpose also supporting the application. 

 In illustration of the want being actually felt, a friend of mine 

 who was commencing a certain kind of chemical business here 

 had to get a practical chemist as manager of his works from 

 England. 



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