text:  "To us " say they "brought up in India for scientific pursuits and longing ardently to acquire practical information connected with modern improvements more particularly with naval architecture steam-engines steam-boats and steam navigation these two galleries of practical science (the Adelaide and Polytechnic) seemed to embrace all that we had come over to England to make ourselves acquainted with; and it was with gratitude to the original projectors of these institutions that we gazed on the soul-exciting scene before us