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THOSE who have read the Marquis de Beauvoir's “Voyage round the World” will recollect the high praise with which he speaks of Sir Redmond Barry's prolonged and continuous efforts for the advancement of Science in Victoria. His latest good deed in this direction is the aid which he has afforded in the establishment of a School of Mines at Ballarat, which, to use his own words, may now be regarded as “an accomplished fact,” since “everything connected with its establishment and maintenance has been thoroughly debated and determined on.” The prospectus of the Institution states that “the object sought to be obtained is the combination of the highest scientific with the most practical training for all men engaged in the enterprise of mining in its various branches — whether so engaged as mining managers, engineers, surveyors, mechanists, working miners, directors or promoters of companies;” and, as there is every reason to believe that the school will be supported by the Government, by the several mining boards, and by the general public, we may hope to see it in actual operation in a few months.
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Science in Victoria . Nature 3, 315 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003315a0
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