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"written shortly after his opening lecture) similar phases in the 

 circulation of solid matter (earth), and the transformations of Hying 

 matter (plants and animals). 



Turning for a moment to the lectures of Prefessor Guthrie, on 

 Physics and Chemistry, it may be asked of what use instruction in 

 chemistry can be without laboratory practice ; and although it is 

 probable that the ladies will see none of that at South Kensington, 

 and indeed that only the most rudimentary instruction in chemistry 

 can be imparted in a course such as Professor Guthrie will give ; 

 yet when we look at what is being done elsewhere, we shall find 

 not only a supply, but an active demand for laboratory instruc- 

 tion. 



Mr. Mylne, the Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Educational 

 Association, which carries on its operations in connection with 

 University College, has sent us a programme of the scientific 

 lectures in course of delivery at the College in Gower Street, and 

 he informs us that Professor Williamson not only gives instruction 

 in theoretical chemistry, which we find from the prospectus to 

 embrace the organic as well as the inorganic section, but that he 

 has instituted laboratory practice, several ladies having expressed a 

 wish for this mode of instruction. In connection with this series 

 of lectures it may be further added that Professor G. C. Foster is 

 delivering a course on Dynamics and Heat; and Professor Hirst 

 one on Geometry. There are lectures on the living and dead 

 languages and literature, but with those we have no concern here. 



Professor Oliver, at South Kensington, proposes to illustrate the 

 laws of biology, as we have already stated, chiefly by a reference to 

 the realm of plants ; indeed, so far as we can ascertain his views at 

 the time of writing this notice, he intends to follow the admirable 

 plan of making his lectures as much as possible a series of demon- 

 strations with living plants. 



Many gentlemen, either amateurs or professional men, are 

 devoting their time to further this kind of instruction to ladies. 

 At South Kensington, the Hon. and Rev. Francis Byng, and Mr. 

 Owen, of the Museum, are taking an active part in the movement. 



Professor Sedgwick, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and his 

 brother, of Merton, have delivered courses of lectures, we believe, 

 at Preston, Manchester, &c. 



Most of the Professors of Natural Science at Oxford have given 

 lectures to ladies at one time or another, Mr. Harcourt having 

 delivered a course to " women and children ; " and Dr. Child a series 

 on Physiology last year at Clifton. 



Mr. James Stuart, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is now 

 delivering a course of lectures to ladies, in Liverpool, on Natural 

 Philosophy, embracing the subjects of Light, Heat, Magnetism, and 

 the most recent discoveries made by spectrum analysis. Papers are 



