"The same system of education which we have described for the daughters of the gentry will be incumbent on the daughters of the nobility, with the addition of a more finished and thorough education in regard to the manners and formalities which attach to their station of life, and these will also vary in kind and extent, according to the position of the persons concerned. A Duke's daughter, for instance, will be more accomplished than a Count's. But the difference will be more apparent than real; the actual knowledge of both will, as far as their education provides, be the same. In the society of the Court, the ladies will naturally acquire some knowledge of the affairs of State, which those in private life and a more retired existence will not care to learn. But in matters of art, in literature, in the general business of life, all German ladies are expected to be well informed and to be able to converse intelligently regarding them, while the special faculties of law, of medicine, of theology, of chemistry, etc., etc., are left to the higher ambition of their fathers and brothers, and they do not meddle with them. But, above all, as I remarked in the beginning, a German girl of whatever rank or condition must understand fully all the matters concerning a _household_." When the Professor had finished, I thanked him and expressed so much admiration at the system of education provided for the women of Germany, that he promised me at some future time a brief explanation of morals and manners in Germany, which I shall be most happy to present before the reader at the proper time. K.G.D. * * * * * SCIENCE IN ANTIQUITY. HERON'S PNEUMATIC AND COMPRESSING APPARATUS. The most ancient of such instruments is certainly the syringe. The Egyptians, says Herodotus (ii., 87), employed the latter in the embalming of common people, for filling the belly with oil of cedar, through injections made _per ano_, without opening the body and extracting the intestines. Heron, in his "Pneumatics," describes an instrument of this kind, called _Pyulgue_, which was designed for sucking pus out of wounds. The following apparatus, also described by Heron, is the first step that was taken toward the production of the pneumatic apparatus properly so called "_Construction of a cupping glass that sucks without the aid of fire_."