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PASSING EVENTS. 285
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Djsar Miss Mebrtweather, Brisbane, July ...
Bis journey . At one time they were five days without water , and in ¦ camping for the night a horse was always used , instead of a dog , for watching ,
being found the most vigilant of the two . The natives in that part are much larger than the Queensland blacks , and more savage . Ditto the mosquitoes . The winter here has been coldand the summer beforeit was cooler than
usual . It seems that the climate , altogether of this , part has become gradually more temperate within the last few years . People at home seem to think that the folks here are a shocking set . What
will they say , when I tell them that for the last half-year we have regularly tone to bed with the doors and windows wide open , both back and front , and had to it ? could not do in virtuous
ave never reason regret We so England . The house stands by the roadside , and has a piece of ground in front which makes it retired . ...
Yours affectionately , R . S .
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PASSING EVENTS . 285
Answers To Correspondents. M. N. Will Be...
ANSWERS TO _CORRESPONDENTS . M . N . will be glad to learn that sewing machines are already in where use at lain the
needlework Needlewomen is 's taken Institution in , and , 2 , that Hinde girls Street are , largel Manchester y employed Square in , working p the machinesin connexion with ready-made linen warehousesdress-making
establishment , s & c . , A . B . The , subject has already been discussed in Open Council .
< T . 33 ., Dr . Moore , and a Teacher , for insertion next month .
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- Proposed Admission of Girls to University Local Examinations . — A is now committee in activ in e furth communication erance of this with object the Local has been Committees formed in at London the various , and
hav centres e alread of examination made definite . It aj ) lications pears that for in admission Brighton . and The in Bri London hton , ladies _licant was over y and could app notthereforebe presented as a candidate g . app The
London application age was referred , to the , Oxford Delegacy , by whom an answer examine was girls returned . The , question that they will did therefore not consider come under themselves the consideration empowered to of
the Convocation of the University . The Local Secretaries generally , appear to Universities be disposed the to obj give ect their desired co . -operation Further in step endeavouring s are under to consideration obtain from and the
will shortly be announced . At the late Meeting of the British Association for the advancement of Science ,
Dr . Paget and Professor Huxley called attention to the efficacy of prizes of various kinds as a means of calling forth effort in different branches of study . Dr . Paget remarked on the limited cultivation of physiology in Cambridge ,
and being referred attracted to the by cause the of prizes its comparativ , scholarshi e ps neg , lect and — fellowshi to the most ps , able which students have _changes matics hitherto . been and He described particularl given almost its the prospects exclusivel establishment y as for improving proficiency of the Natural under in classics recent Sciences and academical Tri mathe os - .
Professor , Huxley , in an y address on " The objects , -condition and prospects p thing of _Biolog and ical despair Science of , " nothing said that for the its history future of Biology All the led great him triump to hope hs of every the
the science nineteenth , were essentiall century y 5 modern but he , thoug the majority ht they . of needed them biolog being ical the education products in of the schools fellowshiin universities
primary , biological scholarships and ps our
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/69/
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