INSTRUCTION TO SCIENCE TEACHERS. 687 
Thirty-nine students of whom one was a lady, attended the 
course of instruction in the principles of Biology, their expenses 
(involved in coming to London) being defrayed by the Government. 
The course occupied six weeks: the students attended every day, 
with the exception of Sundays, from ten in the morning until half- 
past four in the afternoon (Saturdays until two). Each morning 
at ten o’clock a lecture, occupying from an hour to an hour and a 
half, was given by Prof. Huxley, and the remainder of the day 
was employed in dissection, microscopic work, and demonstrations, 
in carrying out which Prof. Huxley was assisted by Prof. Michael 
Foster, Prof. Rutherford, and Mr. Ray Lankester. The students 
were placed in pairs at large working tables, and each table was 
provided with a microscope (with inch and one-eighth inch ob- 
jectives, and two eye-pieces furnished with micrometric square-rul- 
ing), with four scalpels, two pairs of scissors, two pairs of forceps, 
pins, thread, dissecting needles, watch-glasses, beakers, pie-dishes, 
glass-tubing, and camel’s-hair brush. 
The practical instruction proceeded pari passu with the lectures, 
the students at once taking their places at the tables after the lec- 
ture, and setting to work at materials provided for them to dissect 
or examine with the microscope in illustration of, or rather as 
the sequel to, the lecture which they had just heard. Each stu- 
' dent was required to send in full reports and drawings as the re- 
sult of his day’s work, many of which proved very excellent; an 
abstract of the lecture was also given in by each student with the 
report of his practical work, and the lot were returned at the end 
of the course (after due examination by the lecturers) to the stu- 
dents for their future reference. 
Two prizes— which were two microscopes similar to those used 
by the members of the class, and provided like them with inch 
and one-eighth inch objectives — were offered to the students who 
should be considered to have done best during the course, especial 
weight being given to excellence in the practical work, as judged 
both by observation of the student when at work, and by the re- 
ports sent in. 
The names of the students were placed in two classes of merit 
at the termination of the course, arranged in alphabetical order. 
Now as to the subjects which were gone over in the time, which 
though limited to six weeks, yet by dint of hard work, was made 
to take in more than many a six months’ course. The yeast 
