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for the construction of models from working drawings, both British 

 and foreign. Mr. Richard Phillips, F. R. S., long distinguished as an 

 analytical chemist of the first order, has charge of the Laboratory and of 

 the mineral and metallurgical collections, and Mr. Jordan, a gentleman 

 of considerable ability, and previously Secretary of the Polytechnic So- 

 ciety of Cornwall, superintends the Mining Record Office and the Model 

 Department. Both gentlemen receive pupils under certain regulations, 

 the former in analytical chemistry, metallurgy and mineralogy ; the latter 

 for mining, section and plan drawing, and mining machinery ; it being 

 considered a great object to teach as much as possible by aid of the 

 establishment, its collections of mineral and metallurgical specimens, 

 models, &c. being freely employed for the purpose, and not intended for 

 mere shew, though eventually the public will be admitted to view them 

 gratuitously in the same manner as the collections of the British Mu- 

 seum are exhibited. 



The establishment may be considered as formed to a certain extent of 

 distinct parts, though they are necessarily much blended with each other, 

 and may be said to consist of the Mineral and Metallurgical Collection, 

 the Laboratory, the Model Department, and the Mining Record Office. 



The Mineral and Metallurgical Collections are divided into, 



a. — The various ores of the useful metals at present raised in the 

 United Kingdom and its Colonies. 



b. — Specimens to illustrate the mode in which these ores occur, and 

 the general conditions under which they are found. 



c. — A metallurgical series, shewing the mode of reducing the ores to 

 the metallic state, as practised in the United Kingdom or Colonies. 



d. — The foreign ores of the useful metals, in order to accustom the 

 eye of the British miner to all known appearances of the ores of the 

 useful metals. 



e. — Specimens illustrative of the mode of occurrence of these foreign 

 ores, so that the British miner may see wherein this may differ from, or 

 agree with, the manner in which ores are found in the United Kingdom. 



/. — A series illustrating the manner in which the ores are reduced to 



the metallic state in foreign countries.* 



* The British specimens of ores and metallurgical processes are kept distinct from 

 the foreign, to shew at one glance what is really known or done in the United King- 

 dom, and therefore what more or less is known, as relates to the same subjects in 

 other countries. 



