l more in the
future, the progress of our manufacturing industry.

"As president of this Institute, I have noted with much
satisfaction the rapid development of the work which the Council
have initiated, and which they so successfully control. I am
anxious to take this opportunity of expressing in public what is
already known to you, my Lord Chancellor, and to the members of
the Council, the obligations which we are all under to Mr.
Philip Magnus, our able director and secretary, for his
unwearied exertions in having so successfully accomplished the
organization of the practical work of the institution. I have no
doubt that the opportunities for advanced instruction, which
will be afforded in the well-arranged laboratories and workshops
of this building, will enable the managers and superintendents
of our manufacturing works to obtain more readily than hitherto
that higher technical instruction which is so essential to the
development of our trade and commerce.

"But it is especially as a training college for teachers that
this institution will occupy an important place in the
educational establishments of this country. The demand for
technical instruction has increased so rapidly during the last
few years that the supply of teachers has not kept pace with it,
and I have noticed with satisfaction that in the scheme for the
organization of this school due prominence is given to the
provision of gratuitous courses of instruction for technical
teachers from all parts of the kingdom. I shall be glad to see
other corporations and individuals follow the example of the
Clothworkers' Company, by establishing scholarships which shall
serve to connect the elementary schools of this country with
this institution. Hitherto, all schools have led up to the
Universities, and literary training has been encouraged to the
disadvantage of scientific instruction. Manufacturing industry
has, consequently, not been able to attract to its pursuits its
fair proportion of the best intellect of the country. The
foundation of scholarships in connection with this institution
will enable selected pupils from elementary schools to enter
schools of a higher grade, and to complete their education
within these walls.

"As president of the International Health Exhibition, I am glad
that the Coun