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| teaching the boys to collect specimens | |
| themselves in the holidays in that | |
| fertile Geological county & part of Derbyshire | |
| Mr. Burton is not a mere School master, | |
| looking after the 'grant', but is zealous to | |
| teach the school-children to teach | |
| themselves in after life, & he has a | |
| spark of genius. | |
| Just now he is in for the Inspector's | |
| General School Examn - But he is | |
| going to give, besides the School work, | |
| 4 Science Classes (in connection with the | |
| Science & Art Dept in London) of which | |
| one will be on Geology. | |
| And he is Secretary to the Lea & | |
| Holloway Institute, & will give two | |
| Lectures there in the Winter session, one of | |
| which will be on Coal & the other on | |
| the prehistoric World, I believe. | |
| I hope he will not go beyond his audience. | |
| But he succeeds most admirably in making | |
| the boys give a lively attention. The main | |
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