We are, however, not now concerned with blind men but with blind boys and girls, and with those especially who are receiving their education at the Royal Normal College at Upper Norwood. This institution owes its existence to two men, whose efforts on behalf of their fellow-sufferers cannot be too gratefully acknowledged--to the late Dr. Armitage, and to Dr. Campbell, the president, whose portrait, together with a picture of the college, is shown at the head of this paper. The meeting of these gentlemen in London some twenty years ago revolutionised the whole system of education for the sightless. Dr. Armitage spared no trouble, no money, no time to advance the interests of the blind, and it was a fortunate circumstance which threw one so ready to place his energy and his wealth at their disposal, in contact with another who, like Dr. Campbell, wanted only such support to enable him to enter on the experiment of helping the blind to take their part in life's battle with the confidence and the same chances of success and independence as the seeing. How completely they worked together is shown by a little anecdote which Dr. Campbell is fond of relating. They had been to a conference at York, and, as was their custom, travelled third-class. Some other congressmen, with firstclass tickets, were considerably astonished, and exclaimed:-- "What, are you going third-class?" Dr. Armitage's reply was characteristic of the practical and cheery kindliness of the man. "Campbell and I have too many children to be able to afford to travel first," he said. "Have you a large family, doctor?" asked one of his friends in surprise. "Yes," he answered, "our English family alone numbers about 32,000, and they have relatives in all parts of the world." The moral was plain. The few shillings Dr. Armitage and his colleague were saving, were destined to assist the work of amelioration, and the gentlemen paid them a chivalrous and graceful compliment by exchanging their tickets and travelling in the same compartment with the two benefactors and servants of blind humanity. [Illustration: THE LATE DR. ARMITAGE.]