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school \\as of threat advantage l)oth to the employer and to the 



])oy. 



One tear expressed in connection with trades schools is the 

 over-prodnction of skilled workers. J ])artially dealt with that 

 ]X)int in a l)re^•ious paper.* Mr. Beveri(lo-e, in his book on " Un- 

 employment," shows that dit^culty is lar<j^ely due to want of fluid- 

 ity in groups of workers, and was overcome in (iermaiiy by their 

 system of labour exchano'es, which he was afterwards appointed 

 to organize in England. It is conceivable that this fluidity will 

 be artificially increased after the war l)y the enemy Central 

 Powers; the possibility is established 1)\- the organization of the 

 International Workers of the World. It behoves vis to see that 

 our young men receive a skilled training fitting them for im- 

 mediate and continuous employment, so liiat there mav l)e as few 

 openings as possible in the future for foreigners oi enemy origin. 



I submit that tlie trades school system of technical education, 

 which starts in the trade worksho]) and leads to the class-room 

 and the laborator)', is the system required in tiii> countr\- ; that 

 it is superior to the system of the so-called junior technical school, 

 with its technical instruction at the desk, which ca:i end only in a 

 desire for ofiice work and a disinclination for that skilled manual 

 lal^HU' necessary to the dexclopment of oin- resources by our- 

 ■-eh es. 



( Read. July T), nyiy). 



South African Museum. — In the kej^ort of the South 

 .\frican Mu.seum for the year 1917, several additions to the 

 exhibits of Karroo rejitiles are noted. One of these is a partial 

 skeleton in a slal) of a new s|)ecies of Dinosaur, and another is 

 the skull of a large undescribed Dincjcephalian allied to Titano- 

 sitcliiis. Other additions are an almost complete skeleton of Proly- 

 sti'osaiints iiafalciisis, a skull and lower jaw of Dicynodon 

 Tvhaitsi. tlie carpus of a species of Parcisanrus. a skull and lower 

 jaw of a species of fimbn'tliosaitnis, and skulls of Parcia^<;aiinis 

 hoiiihidciis. and of a species of Stnithioccf^haliis. A skull of 

 Glaiiosnchus niacrof^s. and the cast of a skull of Lvcosaiinis have 

 ])een mounted. 



I'roofs of the co-existence in South Africa of man with 

 extinct animals in the shape of sti)ne implements, found together 

 with remains o>f the now extinct animals and others which he 

 slew for food are now exhibited together with \'ouchers s]K)wing 

 evidence of still greater anticjuity. 



Three panels of Bushman paintings have been added, as well 

 as sex'cral paintings on single stones, obtained in the rock shelters 

 of the littoral, and executed by Strand-loopers. 



* " 



Practical Education.'' Rcpf. S..!. for Adi\ of SC. Pretoria, 

 ! IQ15 ), 694. 



