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mises. The institute will thus be placed in a position to 
render services alike important to humanity and to science. — 
Lancet, and British Medical Journal. 
A College of Science for Yorkshire. — At the 
annual meeting of the Yorkshire Board of Education, held 
at Leeds, a short time since. Lord F. Cavendish, M.P., advo- 
cated the necessity of establishing a college of science, to 
which both manufacturers and artisans could send their sons, 
to learn the laws which regulated the materials it would be 
their future business to deal with. 
Wool Imports. — The imports of sheep's wool last year 
were 873,927 bales, being about 6300 bales below the imports 
of 1 869. The falling off was principally in Cape, East Indian, 
and German wool. The Australasian wool imports were 
larger by about 50,000 bales than in the previous year, having 
reached the high figure of 549,264 bales. In goats' hair or 
wool, there has been a considerable decline in the last three 
years. Assuming the yield of the home clip for 1870 to have 
been equal to that of former years (which, according to a 
paper recently read before the Statistical Society in London, 
taken as an average of the four years 1867 to 1870, amounts, 
in round figures, to 160,000,000 lb.) ; and considering that 
stocks of the raw material in the hands of consumers and 
dealers are admittedly very light — only importers of fine 
colonial wools holding rather more than the usual quantity at 
this time of the year — it appears, beyond all doubt, that the 
consumption of wool during 1870 has been on an un» 
precedently large scale, that more machinery than ever is 
profitably employed, and that the woollen trade altogether is 
decidedly in a most healthy state . — Journal of the Society of 
Arts. 
Sale of the late Lord Walsingham's South- 
downs. — The sums realised by the sales of this celebrated 
flock, which took place on Thursday, June 29th, were as 
follows : — 
19 Old rams brought 
£ 
... 525 10 
d. 
6 
65 Shearing rams 
... 1431 13 
6 
120 Ram lambs 
... 543 16 
0 
192 Old ewes 
... 771 5 
0 
65 Three shear ewes 
... 267 10 
0 
90 Two shear ewes 
... 432 10 
0 
160 Shearling ewes 
... 1110 2 
6 
160 Ewe lambs 
... 407 7 
6 
£5189 15 0 
