Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . stifies the existence of scienceschools, universities, learned societies, original re-search, &c. I put recreation above all, because theelevating moral and intellectual influences of scienceoperate most powerfully on those who make it a recreation, and least upon the specialist who uses,it as a matter of business, like any other trade, orin order to obtain social status by public is even possible that these latter may be morallydegraded, by their scientific attainments;

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Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . stifies the existence of scienceschools, universities, learned societies, original re-search, &c. I put recreation above all, because theelevating moral and intellectual influences of scienceoperate most powerfully on those who make it a recreation, and least upon the specialist who uses,it as a matter of business, like any other trade, orin order to obtain social status by public is even possible that these latter may be morallydegraded, by their scientific attainments; they cer-tainly are so whenever they assume the pharisaicalairs of a scientific priesthood, by looking down withpedantic self-complacency upon vulgar people not as they are. W. Mattieu Williams. AT THE GATE OF NORTH WALES. a midsummer holiday. By the Editor. I DO not know a single holiday place, among themany I am privileged to remember, whichstrikes one so much as Llangollen. As soon as westep out of the train, we feel that the place will famous river Dee rushes and brawls and seethes.

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