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Physics. In summer, optics with experiments. In 

 winter, the system of the world. Three hours. 



Technology. Chemical and mechanical arts and trades, 

 described and illustrating by models. Excursions to visit 

 the principal workshops. Four hours. 



Architectural and machine drawing. Two hours, 

 those pupils who do not take part in this, receive lessons 

 in ornamental drawing from plaster models. 



Vocal music. Two hours. 



The pupils of this class are, besides, engaged in mani- 

 pulating in the laboratory of the institution several hours 

 each week. 



The facilities for the courses are furnished by a collection 

 of mathematical and physical apparatus, a laboratory, with 

 a tolerably complete chemical apparatus and a series of 

 tests, a collection of specimens of the arts and manufactures 

 (or technological collection) a collection of dried plants, 

 and of engravings for the botanical course, and a small 

 garden for the same use, a collection of minerals, a collec- 

 tion of insects, a collection in comparative anatomy, aseries 

 of engravings for the drawing course, and of plaster models, 

 a set of maps, and other apparatus for geography, some 

 astronomical instruments, and a library. The pupils are 

 taken from time to time, to the admirable museum attached 

 to the university of Berlin, for the examination of zoological 

 specimens especially. 



5. Royal Real Schools. 



The Royal Real School of Berlin was founded as early 

 as 1747, by Counsellor Hecker. At the period in which 

 this school was founded, Latin and Greek were the exclu- 

 sive objects of study in the learned schools, and the avowed 

 purpose of this establishment was that "not mere words 



