. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 14^ THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [May. Feeling that it is perhaps impossible for your collector to know the names of u'l the deceased architects, I trust that you will attribute this letter to the sole motive by which it is dictated, namely, to add such information as may enable vou to correct vour list should vou repub lish it. I remain, Your most obedient Servant, 29, Soho Square, April 3, 1^ 10. Samuel Bkazley. We have received another communication from Mr.
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 14^ THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. [May. Feeling that it is perhaps impossible for your collector to know the names of u'l the deceased architects, I trust that you will attribute this letter to the sole motive by which it is dictated, namely, to add such information as may enable vou to correct vour list should vou repub lish it. I remain, Your most obedient Servant, 29, Soho Square, April 3, 1^ 10. Samuel Bkazley. We have received another communication from Mr. Webb, for which we are obliged, containing the names of some architects, which were omitted in the table; we shall, at some future opportunity, avail our- selves of this communication, together with others, and publish an additional table. Editor C. E. and A. Journal. TEACHERS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE, &c:: Sir—As your highly useful journal is devoted to the advancement of the professions you advocate, allow uie to draw your attention to what I consider to be an evil of the greatest magnitude, and one which has done more to lower the profession, and to bring it into disrepute, than anything else that I am acquainted with. I allude to the pro- ceedings of a certain class of persons, styling themselves "Architects and Surveyors," or " Civil Engineers," who disgrace the profession they claim by pretending to teach it in a fern lesso7is. Such men should be held up to universal scorn and contempt, for they have ruined the profession while filling their own pockets, by a process little better than swindling. I will explain the manner in which they go to work. They first put a specious advertisement in the newspaper, headed "Offices for Surveying, Architecture, and Civil Engineering," and go on to state that a few /fSsoHS are all that is required to enable a person to practise on his own account! I Some deluded individual is sure to be all
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