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Rh ing of liberal education as implied by the degree, and if it decide in the negative, let it adopt the bold alternative of withdrawing from the minor Colleges the privilege of affiliation which has been too hastily conferred.

On the supposition that Science is to be taught, and that a competent Professor be provided to teach it, the provision of illustrations of its subject. matter is, as we believe, not surrounded by many difficulties. The observations of the Sub-Committee’s report evidently contemplate one class of Natural Sciences only, viz., the Experimental as distinguished from the Descriptive, and they are undoubtedly valid if Chemistry and Physics alone be considered. But even in Physics, there are certain branches well fitted for education, in which the apparatus, once provided, requires but ordinary care for its preservation, and entails no material expense in use. Light is amply supplied without cost by an Indian sun, and its analysis is an inexpensive operation, requiring at the utmost a little Quinine, or something equally simple. But although we hold that no real training in Science as an end can be given, without a broad foundation of Physics ; and although as a means of Education, the Experimental Sciences are preferable to all others where they can be properly taught, an advantage due to their precision, and method of stern appeal to weight and measure, as well as to the fact of their dealing with force and matter in their universal phases ; still those which Dr. Whewell terms the Classificatory Sciences, Botany and