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dance upon his lectures last winter was 26,910. As 

 he speaks, a stenographer records his words, which 

 are printed, and duplicate sets of the illustrations with 

 this text are supplied to eighty-five cities and villages 

 in the state of New York, whence they are loaned 

 to the surrounding towns. This instruction is also 

 repeated in twelve other States of the Union. It has 

 spread into Canada, with the remarkable growth shown 

 by the fact that last year the attendance was 8400, 

 and this year over 27,000. This admirable work in 

 the Dominion is supervised by Professor Penhallow 

 of M'Gill University. 



As the club -room could not be satisfactorily 

 darkened, the audience was invited to adjourn to 

 the adjoining museum, where Professor Bickmore dis- 

 played a series of the views in actual use in the 

 schools of New York City, commencing with a series 

 of slides representing a teacher of a kindergarten 

 school and her class going from the city of New 

 York into the adjoining country. The audience were 

 brought to a beautiful garden of flowers, where the 

 life-history of a lotus -flower was displayed in all 

 its natural and brilliant hues. Then Professor Bick- 

 more exhibited a series of views to illustrate teaching 

 in the grammar-schools, which forms the principal 

 part of his work, in which the audience were invited 

 to journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. 

 Passing up the beautiful Hudson River, they saw the 

 grand Niagara, the Great Lakes, and the cities upon 

 their borders; the inexhaustible mines of iron ore, 

 and the attractive scenery of the Yellowstone Park, 

 and the grand canyon of the Colorado; and the audi- 

 ence finished its journey at the Golden Gate, where 



