SCIENCE DEMONSTRATION IN SCHOOLS. 569 
the manufactory of dynamite in Birmingham was due, in the first 
instance, to a youth who passed through the Science system of 
the Birmingham Board Schools, including the evening instruc- 
tion. He had, I believe, been taught the relation of glycerine to 
explosive compounds, and living near Whitehead’s premises, and 
seeing what he recognised as cans of glycerine, and carboys and 
bottles of acid, go in there, he communicated his suspicions to a 
friend, who happened to be a detective policeman. 
I trust that the reading of this paper, and the discussion 
thereon, may have some influence in drawing attention to this 
essentially practical scheme for Science demonstrations in Board 
Schools—a scheme suggested by the matured experience of most 
eminent men of science; worked out in practical detail by 
Boards controlling the education of two of our largest centres of 
population ; (would that it were adopted in London also!) and 
proved to have given, under their management, such admirable 
results. I will conclude by simply recording my very firm con- 
viction that, if this work can be but set moving, it will end in an 
intellectual revolution for the mass of our ‘people, and that the 
national results of it will be great. 
NoTE—After this paper was read, the chairman, Prof. G. C. 
Foster, invited discussion. Among the speakers, besides the 
chairman, were Dr. J. H. Gladstone (London School Board), Mr. 
Walter Baily (H.M. Inspector of Schools, London district), Prof. 
Chandler Roberts, and Dr. Carpenter, C.B. A unanimous ex- 
pression of approval of the scheme was elicited, and Dr. Carpen- 
ter stated that he had been for some time waiting for a suitable 
opportunity to bring before the public just such a scheme, which 
he had worked out in his own mind. It afforded him very great 
satisfaction to find that it was already actually an accomplished 
fact. | 
It may be noted also that, at the public Presentation for De- 
grees in the University of London last May, Sir John Lubbock, 
M.P. for the University, referred in terms of strong approval t> 
this scheme.—W.L.C. 
REVIEW. 
The Fertilisation of Flowers, by Prof. Hermann Miller, trans- 
lated and edited by D‘Arcy W. Thompson, B.A. London: 
Macmillan & Co. 
Up to the present time Dr. Miiller’s valuable researches on 
the fertilisation of flowers, described in his chief works, “ dze 
Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten,” and “ die Alpenblumen, 
thre Befruchtung durch Insekten, und thre Anpassungen an 
dieselben,’ as well as in his numerous articles in German pub- 
lications, have been inaccessible to the majority of English 
