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grants, grants for apparatus, &c., scholarships and exhibitions, 

 medals and prizes to pupils. Ail of these are awarded on the 

 results of rigid examination, conducted by papers sent from 

 London and reported on by examiners, among whom are some of 

 the first scientific men in the country. The aids to teachers are 

 at the rate of £2 per annum for each first-class pupil, and £1 for 

 each second-class pupil ; and the teacher, in order to receive aid, 

 if not a University graduate, must have obtained at least a 

 second class in the advanced grade of these examinations. Of the 

 aids given to pupils a number are in the form of exhibitions in 

 aid of attendance on higher science schools, and in the case of the 

 hio'her Government schools the fees are remitted in favor of 

 students taking these exhibitions. It would be difficult to 

 imagine a system likely to do more good, and all that is wanted is 

 that it should be further extended, and that more thorough 

 means should be adopted for training the teachers. 



SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. 



The most conspicuous part of the establishment at South 

 Kensington is its museum, embracing a vast collection of objects 

 illustrative of industrial products, art and manufactures, and one 

 of the most popular and useful places of instruction by the eye in 

 London. It is proposed to remove to the extensive buildings at 

 South Kensington the vast Natural History collections of the 

 British Museum, and also the collections of the Geological 

 Survey, so as to promote science study as well as that of art. 

 Art education on an extensive scale is conducted at South Ken- 

 sington itself, as well as in a multitude of affiliated art schools. 

 More especially, young persons are trained as teachers, and with 

 reference to practical applications to decorative art of every 

 description. As illustrations of these, I was shown large collec- 

 tions of patterns for wall papers, table cloths, pottery, and 

 coloured and engraved glass, prepared by the pupils for competi- 

 tion for prizes offered by manufacturers ; while in a gallery of the 

 museum, assistants were busy in arranging a vast collection of 

 drawings and paintings sent in from affiliated schools for competi- 

 tion. In the Art training school I saw hundreds of pupils 

 engaged in all kinds of work, from the elements of drawing to 

 studies in painting and modelling from life. In addition to the 

 study in the schools, the students, of whom there are between 

 eight and nine hundred, have access to the Galleries of Art ia the 



