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At the request of private parties, analyses have been made of 170 objects. Among the chief substances examined have been 18 minerals, including sandstones, limestones, granites, iron ores, coal, and bituminous fuels; 77 guanos, superphosphates, and other manures; 19 waters and boiler deposits; 30 articles of food; five drugs; 12 recent animal products, along with the substances requiring analysis in three suspected cases of poisoning; and many miscellaneous objects, such as pigments, porcelain, glass, and mineral powders of unknown origin.
The Director, in addition, has, at the instance of parties concerned, drawn up reports on the means of preventing the forgery of bank-notes; on the relative merits of four competing patents; on the adulteration of bread; on the legal signification of the word "pottery," as affecting business contracts; on the means of purifying contaminated waters; on the sanitary relations of distilleries; on the changes which grain undergoes during the process of malting; on the causes of sour fermentation in brewing; on the expansibility, under heat, of chloroform; on certain of the limits within which arsenical poisoning may occur; besides less elaborate replies to questions of individual interest.
Twenty pupils have prosecuted analytical chemistry in the laboratory for periods varying from one month to six. The whole of them have been engaged in inquiries relating to industrial science.
III. The students of the University class of technology number forty. The professions represented by the class are those of general manufacturer, architect, engineer, farmer, merchant, baker, tanner, sugar planter, sugar refiner, teacher, doctor, and clergyman, besides young men entered simply as students, but chiefly training for industrial callings, as well as retired military, medical, and legal officers of the East India Company's service, and amateurs.
The Senate of the University of Edinburgh, willing to show their interest in the new chair, have placed at the disposal of the Director, as Professor of Technology, a Straton medal of five Charles guineas value for competition among the students. Cowan, Esq., M.P., has offered a prize for the best essay on a subject suggested by the Director; and a senior member of the class, Mr. Farmer, who has realized during a lengthened residence in New Zealand the value of industrial science, has promised another prize for competition among the junior students.
Besides attending the daily lectures, the students, as in preceding years, visit manufactories, such as paper-mills, so as to witness on the large scale the practical working of those arts, the principles of which have been explained in the lectures.
Although the class is smaller than last year, chiefly, as is believed, owing to the commercial distresses of the country, and is taught under great disadvantages, in a most inconvenient lecture-room, at a distance from the temporary depository of Museum specimens, the students are unabated in their zeal, and, as in former years, have largely contributed to the Museum.
As the general public cannot be reached through the University lectures on technology, the Director has embraced various opportunities which have offered to interest the community at large in the Industrial Museum. In particular, he has availed himself of his position as President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, to urge in an address which the Society has since printed, the continued co-operation of that large and influential body in supporting the Museum.
By request of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, he has delivered to its members and a large circle of guests a lecture "On the Industrial Museum of Scotland in its relation to commercial enterprise." Through the liberality of James Richardson, Esq., Master of the Company, the lecture in question has been printed and distributed widely throughout the country. It has already led to the gift of specimens to the Museum.
Four lectures have been delivered to the Philosophical Institution on a selected number of industrial arts; and a large section of the community who cannot be addressed in any other way have through this channel been awakened or revived to an interest in the progress of the Museum.
IV. The library has been formally organized during the last year, but it has been carefully limited to a few works on industrial science and art, which were essential for the guidance of the Director and his assistants in classifying and acquiring objects for the Museum, and in prosecuting economic researches in the laboratory.
In concluding this Report, the Director cannot in duty omit calling your special attention to the deep disappointment which has been occasioned in Scotland by no vote having been taken in the House of Commons last session for the erection of the promised new Museum buildings.
Memorials urging the importance of these being proceeded with were presented to Government by the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh, the Senate of its University, the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, the Educational Institute of Scotland, the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, and the Technological students of the University, in addition to the representations to the same effect made by Professor Allman and the reporter, as Curators of the Natural History and Industrial Museums. The Highland Society also, as well as the Town Council and Merchant Company of Edinburgh, sent deputations to London to confer with the Treasury on the site and character of the buildings.
It has been matter accordingly of equal surprise and pain to the general community of Scotland that any doubt should exist on the part of the Legislature as to the interest which the public has in the Industrial Museum, or as to the confidence with which it looks to the fulfilment of the promises made in 1854.
The Director simply reports these facts in justice to the many...
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INDUSTRIAL "Edinburgh Philosophical Journal." They are, in addition, about MUSEUM, to be laid before the Architectural Institute of Scotland, and a few copies have been printed separately for distribution among the Industrial Institutions of the country.
SCOTLAND.
At the request of private parties, analyses have been made of 170 objects. Among the chief substances examined have been 18 minerals, including sandstones, limestones, granites, iron ores, coal, and bituminous fuels; 77 guanos, superphosphates, and other manures; 19 waters and boiler deposits; 30 articles of food; five drugs; 12 recent animal products, along with the substances requiring analysis in three suspected cases of poisoning; and many miscellaneous objects, such as pigments, porcelain, glass, and mineral powders of unknown origin.
The Director, in addition, has, at the instance of parties con. cerned, drawn up reports on the means of preventing the forgery of bank-notes; on the relative merits of four competing patents: on the adulteration of bread; on the legal signification of the word "pottery," as affecting business contracts; on the means of puri- fying contaminated waters; on the sanitary relations of distilleries; on the changes which grain undergoes during the process of malt- ing; on the causes of sour fermentation in brewing on the expansibility, under heat, of chloroform; on certain of the limits within which arsenical poisoning may occur; besides less elaborate replies to questions of individual interest.
Twenty pupils have prosecuted analytical chemistry in the laboratory for periods varying from one month to six. The whole of them have been engaged in inquiries relating to industrial science.
III. The students of the University class of technology number forty. The professions represented by the class are those of general manufacturer, architect, engineer, farmer, merchant, baker, tanner, sugar planter, sugar refiner, teacher, doctor, and clergyman, besides young men entered simply as students, but chiefly training for industrial callings, as well as retired military, medical, and legal officers of the East India Company's service, and amateurs.
The Senate of the University of Edinburgh, willing to show their interest in the new chair, have placed at the disposal of the Director, as Professor of Technology, a Straton medal of five Charles guineas value for competition among the students. Cowan, Esq., M.P., has offered a prize for the best essay on a subject suggested by the Director; and a senior member of the class, Mr. Farmer, who has realized during a lengthened residence in New Zealand the value of industrial science, has promised another prize for competition among the junior students.
Besides attending the daily lectures, the students, as in pre- ceding years, visit manufactories, such as paper-mills, so as to witness on the large scale the practical working of those arts, the principles of which have been explained in the lectures.
Although the class is smaller than last year, chiefly, as is believed, owing to the commercial distresses of the country, and is taught under great disadvantages, in a most inconvenient lecture- room, at a distance from the temporary depository of Museum
specimens, the students are unabated in their zeal, and, as in INDUSTRIAL former years, have largely contributed to the Museum.
As the general public cannot be reached through the University lectures on technology, the Director has embraced various oppor- tunities which have offered to interest the community at large in the Industrial Museum. In particular he has availed himself of his position as President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, to urge in an address which the Society has since printed, the con- tinued co-operation of that large and influential body in supporting the Museum.
By request of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, he has delivered to its members and a large circle of guests a lecture "On the Industrial Museum of Scotland in its relation to commercial enterprize.' Through the liberality of James Richardson, Esq., Master of the Company, the lecture in question has been printed and distributed widely throughout the country. It has already led to the gift of specimens to the Museum.
Four lectures have been delivered to the Philosophical Insti- tution on a selected number of industrial arts; and a large section of the community who cannot be addressed in any other way have through this channel been awakened or revived to an interest in the
progress of the Museum.
IV. The library has been formally organized during the last year, but it has been carefully limited to a few works on industrial science and art, which were essential for the guidance of the Director and his assistants in classifying and acquiring objects for the Museum, and in prosecuting economic researches in the laboratory.
In concluding this Report, the Director cannot in duty omit calling your special attention to the deep disappointment which has been occasioned in Scotland by no vote having been taken in the House of Commons last session for the erection of the promised new Museum buildings.
Memorials urging the importance of these being proceeded with were presented to Government by the Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh, the Senate of its University, the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, the Educational Institute of Scotland, the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, and the Technological students of the University, in addition to the representations to the same effect made by Professor Allman and the reporter, as Curators of the Natural History and Industrial Museums. The Highland Society also, as well as the Town Council and Merchant Company of Edinburgh, sent deputations to London to confer with the Treasury on the site and character of the buildings.
It has been matter accordingly of equal surprise and pain to the general community of Scotland that any doubt should exist on the part of the Legislature as to the interest which the public has in the Industrial Museum, or as to the confidence with which it looks to the fulfilment of the promises made in 1854.
The Director simply reports these facts in justice to the many
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