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NEAR STOCKBRIDGE, HANTS.

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_Mathematics and Natural Philosophy._--Dr. Thos. A. Hirst, of the Universities of Marburg and Berlin.

_Chemistry_--Dr. H. Debus, late Assistant in the Laboratory of Professor Bunsen, and Chemical Lecturer in the University of Marburg.

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_Geodesy._--Mr. Richard P. Wright.

_Painting and Drawing._--Mr. Richard P. Wright.

_English, and Junior Mathematics._--Frederick Iliff, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and M.C.P.

DITTO.--Mr. William Singleton.

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