Identifier: nature5918981899lock (find matches)
Title: Nature
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920. edt
Subjects: Science Science Sciences Biologie Physique Natuurwetenschappen CIENCIA NATURAL HISTORY BIOLOGY SCIENCE
Publisher: (London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc.)
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ther sources. grants made by the Technical Education Board of the LondonCounty Council. The income of the Northern Polytechnic is made up asfollows: (I) the amount, previously mentioned, received underthe City Parochial Charities; (2) special grants made by theCentral Governing Body, up to the present amounting to about500/. per annum ; (3) grants from the Technical EducationBoard, amounting for the session 1897-8 to 1900/. ; (4) grantsfor attendance, or on the results of examinations, made by theScience and ,\rt I )cpartment and the City and (luilds of LondonInstitute, but which, in the absence as yet of a complete work-ing year, cannot be exactly estimated ; (5) students fees, which,for the last working year amounted to 1300/, ; (6) fees receivedfor hire of the large hall, and private subscriptions. The more important items of expenditure are—salaries andwages, 4100/. ; fuel, light, and water, 500/. ; advertising,printing, stationery, and postage, 500/. ; rates and insurance,200/.
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Subscriptions to the amount of 25,000/. were secured for thatpurpose, largely from private sources, but chiefly through themunificence of the Clothworkers Company, and a site was ob-tained in the llolloway Road. Plans for the erection of aninstitute were prepared in 1893, but, in the first place, only thebuildings necessary for educational purposes were erected. Thecost of the site was 8500/., and its total area is about one and aquarter acres. The buildings at present completed, at an e)c-penditure of 28,000/., cover some 3400 square yards of the site.Up to the present some 8000/ has been spent upon theequipment of the institute. In every department a fairly com-plete set of apparatus and fittings for elementary work wasprovided from the beginning, and instruments for more advancedwork have been added, as required, from special equipment * The reader is referred 10 Mr. Sidnej^ Webbs able paper in * SpecialKcports on Educational Subjects, vol. li., for further general informationrespe

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