[6] Professor Bache left 50,000 dollars, and Smithson bequeathed 541,000 dollars to this Institution.

[7] Respecting the Members of our Houses of Legislature, a former Postmaster-General remarked to me, that a dose of scientific research would be too much for them.

[8] The Victoria University has recently become a partial exception to this statement.

[9] See "Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers," vol. 5, pp. 719 and 890; and vol. 8, p. 1,010.

[10] See Nature, April 24th and May 1st, 1873, pp. 485 and 13; also Work and Wages, by Brassey, pp. 170 and 178.

[11] Note.—See "Work and Wages," by Brassey, p.p. 15-131 and 132; also the "Laboratory," vol. 1, p.p. 313-316, 378 and 380.

[12] Note.—The whole of this chapter, especially the Moral Section, is capable of great amplification and much more copious illustration.

[13] Note.—See also p. [95].

[14] Note.—Athenæum, Aug. 3, 1877. p. 242.

[15] "Wish and Will," by L. Turner, M.A.