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not unlikely to recommend something of this kind. I think, as 
regards physical science, they are likely to assure you that it is not 
what I may call the statical element of buildings that you require 
so much as the dynamical element of brains. aking use as far 
as possible of existing institutions, let chairs be founded, suf- 
ficiently but not luxuriously endowed, which shall have original re- 
search for their main object and ambition. With such vital centres 
among you, all your establishments of education would feel their 
influence ; without such centres even your primary instruction will 
never flourish as it ought. I would not, as a general rule, wholly 
I belong, the one ought to be made subservient to the other. The 
Royal Institution gives lectures —indeed it lives in part by lec- 
tures, though mainly by the contributions of its members, and the 
Sbieh has ever interfered with my researches. Itis this wise 
freedom, accompanied by a never-failing sympathy, extended to 
the great men who preceded me, that has given to the Royal 
Institution its imperishable renown.” 
Prof. Tyndall also announced in his speech, his intention of 
devoting the surplus of the money received from his lectures “ to 
the education of young philosophers in Germany.” We learn from 
Appleton’s “ Popular Science Monthly,” that this surplus amounted 
to $13,000. This sum has been conveyed, by an article of trust, to 
the charge of a committee, of which Prof. Joseph Henry is chair- 
man, and which is authorized to expend the interest in aid of 
students who devote themselves to original researches. This - 
certainly, the Journal adds, a noble example, and deserves to be 
emulated. 
Tue eminent French naturalist Pouchet died Dec. 6, 1872, aged 
73. He was the original advocate of the theory of spontaneous 
generation in its modern form. 
We have been obliged to defer several reviews and miscella- 
neous articles until the next number, and beg the indulgence of 
our correspondents whose articles have been unavoidably crowded 
out for two or three months past. — 
We have also an important list of ‘Books Received,” which we 
_ Shall give in the next number. 
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