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printers have had to rely more than they did before its crea- 
tion upon the Paris ateliers for designs ; and our chemical 
manufacturers seek far more than formerly scientific aid 
from Germany. 
Is this a pleasant picture for Englishmen to contemplate 
after all the heavy taxation they have had to endure for 
thirty years for the promotion, as they have been led to 
believe, of scientific and technical instruction ? What reply 
can that most expensive and overgrown bureaucratic Depart- 
ment make to this statement of faCts ? 
Note.— Even if organic analysis could be carried out in 
the Elementary Science Schools in conformity with the 
Honours’ paper, it would nevertheless be a most inappro- 
priate competitive test as to the relative degrees of skill and 
knowledge of different students in these, or in any, schools 
or colleges. Because the glass .tubes in which the analysis 
has to be made will not unfrequently break on the applica- 
tion of the required heat ; and if the tube breaks the analysis 
is destroyed, and has to be commenced afresh ; and the 
breakage most frequently occurs from no want of skill on 
the part of the analyst. If, then, for example, out of six 
students competing in this stage, the tubes of three of the 
students were to break, how could marks be fairly given at 
all in such a case. 
(To be continued.) 
