p. 155).

142. Backward state, intellectually, of the working man of the
present time; superiority of the foreigner.

143. Improvement of the National Gallery suggested (cp. 157, 160).

144. Inexpediency of submitting valuable ancient pictures to the
risk of injury from gas, etc. (cp. 146, 157).

145. Statement as to the minds of the working classes after their
day's labor being too much oppressed to enable them to enjoy or
appreciate the public institutions, if merely opened in the
evening.

146. Suggested collection of pictures and prints of a particular
character for the inspection of the working classes.--Suggestions
with a view to special collections of shells, birds, and plants
being prepared for the use of the working classes; system of
lectures, of illustration, and of intermediate study necessary in
connection with such collections (cp. 151-52).

147. Statement as to greater interest being taken in France and
other foreign countries than in England in the intellectual
development of the working classes; examination on this point, and
on the effect produced thereby upon the character and demeanor of
the working people (cp. 158, 163-64).

148. Objection to circulating valuable or rare works of art
throughout the country, on account of the risk of
injury--Disapproval of inspectors, etc., going about with the
visitors (cp. 159).--Advantage in the upper classes lending
pictures, etc., for public exhibition.

149. Lectures to working men. Advantage if large printed
explanations were placed under every picture (cp. 157, 161).

150. Great desire among the working classes to acquire knowledge;
grounds of such desire (cp. 155).--Great boon if a museum were
formed at the east end of London.

151. Lectures on natural history for working men.

152. Books available on British birds.

153. Intermediate study essential to use of Lectures.--Good
attendance at Working Men's College.--Terms and conditions of
admission to it.

154. Approval of Saturday half-holiday movement (cp. 140, 161).

155. See above, s. 142.

156. Competition in trade and labor regarded by witness as a great
evil.

157. See above, s. 143, 149.

158-59. Happier condition of lower classes abroad than at home.
Their dress also better