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in the Province two experimental farms or stations, at Lacombe and 
Lethbridge, engaged in agricultural research. 
Interest in technical education in Alberta-is evidenced by a pre- 
vocational school at Calgary and a technical school at Edmonton. 
The plan of the Education Department of British Columbia as 
to agricultural education includes:—Special training of teachers in 
rural science, special grants to teachers and schools where rural 
science is taught, and agricultural instructions in high schools. Sum- 
mer schools have been established to give instruction in agriculture 
and manual arts, and in 1915 seven hundred teachers were in attend- 
ance at one held at Victoria. Teachers holding the diploma in rural 
science receive from the Provincial Government a grant of $30 over 
and above their regular salary. Much attention is paid to the proper 
maintenance of school grounds; grants are made with this in view, 
and a nursery has been established for supplying trees and plants. 
Agricultural instruction is being introduced into the high schools 
where specialists are expected to do the teaching. This specialist 
will also be expected to conduct extension work in agriculture in the 
district in which the high school is situated. 
There are -experimental farms or stations in British Columbia 
at Invermere, Summerland, Agassiz, and Sidney engaged in agri- 
cultural research. 
Manual training attracts much interest in the city schools 
but is not taken up in the rural schools. Night schools provide in- 
struction in technical subjects. They are carried on at eleven different 
centres and attracted 3,733 students in 1914-15. The course in Mining 
is a very comprehensive one; that in electricity somewhat less so. 
Courses are also provided in mechanical drawing and in first aid to 
the injured. 
MuvuSsSEUMS 
It is curious that the word museum was not permanently assigned 
‘as a name to the institutions we call universities. In its original 
sense it meant a place dedicated to the muses, and secondarily, a 
place for study and the intercourse of learned men. The most im- 
portant museum of antiquity was that of Alexandria founded in the 
third century before Christ. It contained cloisters and lecture 
rooms, and had botanical and zoological gardens attached. It 
received a subvention from the public treasury. It was indeed 
a university. However, the term museum has come to be restricted 
to institutions, educational it is true, but where the instruction is 
conveyed by illustrative objects. 
