148 How Science Teaching is fostered by the State. [ April, 
Museum, and simply a “Science teacher” and “student,” has 
started classes at ariiondaéys Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, 
Marylebone, Paddington, and Woolwich, in all 30 classes, and “ the 
teachers of these are not paid by the committees;” he pays all 
“expenses, in some cases a heavy rent,” and fixes and receives the 
fees. Such gentlemen are able (no doubt from their superior edu- 
cation) to establish Science’schools in places where they are really 
needed, and they are entitled to the thanks of the community. 
The limited space at our disposal prevents us from giving any 
further information as to the condition of other schools, but when 
we add that at Liverpool and Wigan they have had a career pre- 
cisely resembling the worst of those referred to, and have been 
kept open solely on account of the disinclination of teachers and 
committees to deprive the working-man of the means of self-im- 
provement, we think our readers will agree with us, that the whole 
scheme is quite unworthy of such a country as this, and reflects 
little credit upon all who are concerned in its management. 
That the heads of the department are alive to the fact that 
no persons ought to be employed in its direction except those who 
are initiated in Science is quite clear from the wording of that 
portion of the ‘ Directory’ which gives the names of the various 
officials; for we find opposite several of the names of clerks and 
others, the expression “ certificated in Science.” It naturally oc- 
curred to us, as it no doubt would to our readers, to inquire what 
are the grades of the certificates of these gentlemen; but, unfor- 
tunately, the printed information on this subject is as scanty as it is 
unsatisfactory ; for although the names and rank of the teachers 
were formerly published, we do not find them in the ‘ Directory’ 
any longer.* 
Amongst the “ first-class clerks” there are two certificated in 
Science ; of one we can find no mention in the list of certificated 
teachers in 1865, although he was then already a clerk in the de- 
partment ; the other has distinguished himself by taking a second- 
class in one section of physics only (out of twenty-three subjects in 
which the Committee of Council grants certificates). Of the “sup- 
plementary ” clerks, three are noted as “certificated ;” of two we 
have no means of ascertaining the grade, but a third has outstripped 
the “chief clerk” above referred to, for he possesses two certificates, 
one of the second and one of the third grade. 
It would, however, be superfluous to inform our readers that the 
whole of this department of the State is and has been for a long 
time shockingly mismanaged. It has been repeated, and repeated 
ad nauseam, in the public prints, in private circles, amongst teachers 
and committees of schools of Science, if not of Art; but the officials 
* This is no doubt owing to the fact that any one may now become a “‘Science 
teacher,” who has taken a student’s Ist or 2nd class prize. 
