Genre:

Regular Feature, Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Government, Education, Museums, Zoology, Engineering, Sanitation

Institutions mentioned:

Thames Embankment

    Reports on Henry C G G Lennox's speech in the House of Commons urging that 'One Minister of the Crown ought to be responsible to the House in regard to all estimates in reference to Education, Science, and Art'. Reports on the 'British Museum debate' and interprets William E Gladstone's remarks to mean that 'the Dead Zoological Gardens are to be got rid of'. Goes on to mention the reception of William F Cowper's 'Bill for Embanking the Thames'. (122)