SCIENCE SCHOOLS AND CLASSES. 
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greater difficulty may, very properly, be set for the more advanced pupils. 
Success in these examinations will encourage the students to persevere in 
their studies ; and it is not too much to expect that some of those who are 
fortunate enough to secure the Scholarships and Free Admissions to the 
Government School of Mines, after steadily persevering in the curriculum 
of studies at that institution, may become useful labourers in the cause of 
science, and, it may be, celebrated for their high attainments and un- 
tiring zeal in promoting by their labours the comfort and happiness of 
their fellow-men. 
THE GLASGOW SCIENCE CLASSES. 
In our last number we had the pleasure to record the successes and 
honours of many enterprising and diligent students obtained at the annual 
examinations of the Science and Art Department ; and now it affords us 
gratification to enumerate some cases in which teachers were enabled to 
earn honours and secure certificates of competency. One instance is 
peculiarly gratifying, and deserves especial notice. It appears that, not- 
withstanding the great obstacles which militate against the attendance of 
young ladies at the South Kensington Teachers’ Examination — diffi- 
culties to which we have frequently referred in these pages, and which 
we think could be easily obviated by a little judicious management — ■ 
a young lady in Glasgow (Miss Macomish), lately a student in 
the Free Normal Training College, and at Mr. Mayer’s Science Classes, 
had the courage to go up to London (for the first time), without any 
companion to protect her, and there attended the Teachers’ Examina- 
tion last November. She obtained a first-class certificate in Animal 
Physiology, and will no doubt establish a class for ladies in that subject. 
We cannot speak too highly of this young lady’s spirit, nor too warmly 
recommend her example to others of her sex ; and we once more direct the 
attention of those who desire to see this movement prosper to the removal 
of the difficulties which now deter female teachers from visiting London 
for the purpose of taking out their certificates on science.* From the same 
city (Glasgow) two gentlemen attended the examination — Mr. John 
Robertson, who took out certificates in Physics and Inorganic Chemistry ; 
and Mr. Mayer, the teacher (and we believe founder) of the Science 
Classes, who obtained a certificate of high rank in Metallurgy and one 
in Systematic Botany. 
BELFAST SCIENCE CLASS. 
No doubt our readers who are interested in the subject will remember 
how highly we praised Mr. Ralph Tate, in our number of last October, 
drawing attention to the fact that he passed 82 students in one branch of 
science only ; of whom 87 carried off prizes of various grades. 
We are glad to find that in his case the proverb does not hold good, that 
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