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On Technical Education. 
[April, 
It must be remembered that these reptiles are increasing 
in England as well as in France, and from the same cause — 
the extirpation of the hedgehog. We have repeatedly seen 
them in Epping Forest, and in some of the Hertfordshire 
woods they are numerous. No one seems to have observed 
whether in England and France they show a marked pre- 
ference for any particular kind of vegetation, as in Eastern 
Europe they do for the marsh-rosemary ( Ledum palustre). 
At the close of his memoir M. de Quatrefages formally 
accepts the ferment-theory of serpent-poisons as if already 
established by “ anterior researches.” In so doing he com- 
pletely ignores the investigations of his own eminent 
countryman Dr. Gautier, as well as those of Dr. Winter 
Blyth. 
There is another point which we cannot overlook ; the 
remedy for snake-bites, if such a one exists, can only be 
found out by experiments upon animals, which in the hyste- 
rical cant of the day are denounced as “ violationism,” 
“ diabolism,” &c. We would therefore ask whether, seeing 
that in India alone some 50,000 persons perish yearly from 
snake-bite, such experiments are not the imperative duty of 
those who have the opportunity and the skill to perform 
them ? If any person, whether prelate or homoeopathist, 
whether judge or dodtress, can suggest another method, the 
scientific and medical public are prepared to hear. Dr. de 
Lacerda has reached his conclusions solely by means of 
experiments performed upon animals ! 
VI. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
(Continued from page 156.) 
S ^HE workshop in the school, the school in the workshop, 
l and other forms of what are termed Apprenticeship 
Schools, have all been tried, and exist at the present 
time in France ; and in some form or another they have 
been established in most Continental countries ; but France 
is the country in which they have been most developed. 
