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On Animal Chlorophyll. 
Yet it was when when this beneficial work was being more 
and more appreciated, the Science and Art Department de- 
termined to break up the Institution, and have, in place of 
this advanced technical instruction, a few popular science 
lectures delivered in another place. Gentlemen who had 
been students with me united with another gentleman to 
defeat this; a Parliamentary inquiry took place, and the late 
Sir H. Cole and Col. Donnelly were defeated, and the 
Institution was saved and re-christened. It is now called 
the Royal College of Science. For this I was never for- 
given, at least by one party. 
I have narrated these faCts, and I shall when I come to 
show the necessity for a Minister of Education relate a few 
more, in order to give the public some real information 
about one of the most extravagant Government Depart- 
ments of the day, which unless it is thoroughly reformed will 
strangle real scientific education in the future, as it has 
done in the past. 
I must leave the description of my scheme for the next 
article. 
VI. ON ANIMAL CHLOROPHYLL. 
Wlo HETHER chlorophyll is an exclusively vegetable 
product, or whether it is also elaborated by cer- 
tain members of the animal world, is a question 
which has been not unfrequently discussed of late years 
without any decisive result. Recently, however, a series 
of researches on the chlorophyll of the lower animal forms 
has profoundly shaken the faith in a genuine animal 
chlorophyll. Morphological, physiological, and chemico- 
physical observations have shown, or seemed to show, that 
the chlorophyll-granules found in rhizopods, sponges, 
polypes, and ciliata are merely distinct vegetable indivi- 
duals, Algae, which inhabit the animals in question in a 
semi-parasitical manner, just as do Algae and Fungi in 
lichens. 
