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always fully attended, as a part of their regular duty ; and during the past 
year, several of tliera have delivered voluntarily courses of evening lectures, at 
fee so small as to put them within the reach of working men, pupil-teachers 
and schoolmasters of primary schools. The professors thus hope to support to 
the utmost the great impulse towards the diffusion of a knowledge of physical 
science through all classes of the community, which has been given through 
the Department of Science and Ai't by the Minute of the Committee of Privy 
Council of the 2nd June, 1859. 
A body like the British Association for the Advancement of Science shoul 
I conceive, not be unaware of a step of such vast importance, and tending so 
entirely towards the same goal as that to which its own efforts have been an 
still are constantly directed. 
Now, inasmuch as I can trace no record of the teachings of the Governmen 
School of Mines in the volumes of the British Association, and as I am con 
vinced that the establishment only requires to be more widely known, in order 
to extend sound physical knowledge not merely to miners and geologists, but 
also to chemists, metallurgists, and naturalists, I have only to remind my 
audience that this {school of Mines which, owing its origin to Sir Henry De 
La Beche, has furnished our colonies with some of the most accomplished 
geological and mining surveyors, and many a manufacturer at home with good 
chemists and metallurgists, has now for its lecturers men of such eminence 
that the names of Hoffman, Percy, Warington Smyth, WiUis, Ramsay, Huxley, 
and Tyndall are alone an earnest of our future success. 
In terminating these few allusions to the Geological Survey, and its appl 
cations, I gladly seize the opportunity of recording, that in the days of our 
founder. Sir Henry De la Beche, our institution was greatly benefited in pos 
sessing, for some years, as one of its leading surveyors, such an accomplished 
naturalist and skilful geologist, as the beloved Assistant General Secretary of 
the British Association, Professor Phillips, who by his labours threw much new 
light on the palaeontology of Devonshire, who, in the Memoirs of the Survey, 
has contributed an admirable monograph on the Silurian and other rocks around 
the Malvern hills, and who, by his lectures and writings, is now constantly ad 
vanciiig science in the oldest of our British universities. 
There is yet one subject connected with the Geological Survey to which 
must also call your attention, viz., the Mineral Statistics of the United King 
dom, as compiled with great care and ability by Mr. Bobert Hunt, the keeper 
of the Mining Records, and published annually in the memoirs of our esta- 
blishment. 
These returns made a deep impression on the statists of foreign countries 
who were assembled last year in London at the International Congress. 1'he 
Government and members of the Legislature are now regularly furnished with 
reliable information as to our mineral ore produce, which, until very recently, 
was not obtainable. By the labours of Mr. Robert Hunt, in sedulously col- 
lecting data from all quarters, we now become aware of the fact that we are 
consuming and exporting about eighty millions of tons of coals annually ( 
prodigious recent increase, and daily augmentiug). Of iron ore we raise and 
smelt upwards of eight millions of tons, producing 3,826,000 tons of pig iron 
Of co])per ore we raise from our own mines 236,696 tons, which yield 15,968 
tons of metallic copper; and from our native metallic minerals we obtain of 
tin 6,695 tons; of lead, 63,525 tons; and of zinc, 4,357 tons. The total 
annual value of our minerals and coals is estimated at 26,993,573/., and that o 
the metals (the produce of the above minerals) and coals at 37,121,318/. ! 
When M'C turn from the consideration of the home survey to that of the 
geological surveys in the numerous colonies of Great Britain, I may well re 
fleet with pleasure on the fact that nearly all the leaders of the latter have 
