Show Profs R A S i Medmnyne and T Turner who hold respectively the chairs of mining and metallurgy in I he University Uni-versity of Uirmlnghum are at present in America snys Science in vest i fjaliiiK our technological schools with a vlexv to the urranfjmmnl ol their departments de-partments In Birmingham Prof Rcd mayne is quoted us saying In no part of England nor anywuerc on thu Continent I I I in I fact can you ilnd a school of minlner or a department of mctiii Uiwy In any university thai can In anyway any-way compare with thoseVo be found Jn Canadian and AmerlcaA universities universi-ties That Is ccrtaiilyKh credit for the American universities It IB true that I wo have had a preat deal to do with mining In this country hut Great Britain lias also had a great deal to do with It Jn Australia South Africa Af-rica and uJscwhere and there would nccin no renton why this country should ho so conspicuously ahead save only by reason of natural energy and practical prac-tical application of ingenuity to effect results aimed at But to have Jlrltlsh cxpeiln acknowledge the corn Is the wonder |