10 Prussia and tin Qerm vn System of Education, 



the mathematical and natural sciences. They differ from 

 other schools of learning in their manifold relations to 

 industrial life; they treat their subjects no less scientifically 

 hut at the same time rarnish opportunities for practical 

 applications. The instruction comprises a three-years 

 course after the manner of academies or universities; 

 the pupil selecting his own branches. This course is 

 divided into two parts ; the first being the technical, 

 teaching the lower and higher branches of mathematics, 

 physics and mechanism, general chemistry, machinery 

 and drawing. This section is subdivided into three 

 faculties for engineering, machine-building and technical 

 chemistry. The students in the first, study also, the 

 higher .sciences of surveying, hydraulics, road and rail- 

 road architecture, and construct plans ; those of the second 

 are instructed in mechanism, machine-buildine: and mecha- 

 nical technology, and the planning of single machines and 

 whole lactones; and those of the third, study physics, 

 theoretical and analytical chemistry and chemical 

 technology and practice chemical analyses and prepara- 

 tions. Some branches of jurisprudence and political 

 economy, as well as modern languages, being of equal 

 importance to all the faculties, are taught in them all. 

 The second section is the commercial and comprise the 

 instruction in mercantile correspondence, in commercial 

 sciences, commercial laws and laws of exchange, in mer- 

 cantile calculations and book-keeping, in commercial 

 geography and history and modem languages. At the 

 end of each term, an examination is held and testimonials 

 are given according to its result. 



Germany possesses '24 schools for architecture, 1 J for 

 mining, 17 for forestry (arboriculture etc.), 31 for com- 

 merce, 46 military schools, 70 for agriculture, 10 for 

 music, 81 naval schools, 1- veterinary schools, 12 surgical, 

 ♦ it for various other sciences. 



