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tained certificates of competency in this respect, but they are 

 riot professional mechanical draughtsmen, and cannot teach 

 things with which they are unacquainted. The contrast 

 between the artistic work done in our schools of design, and 

 the mechanical work, is as glaring as the discrepancy between 

 the 3401. and 35,OOOZ. paid for the encouragement of the two 

 branches. 



Instead of the one little heterogeneous class taught by a 

 certificated teacher, there should be in each school four distinct 

 departments one for mechanical drawing proper, one for the 

 drawing of buildings, one for plans and surveys, and one for 

 geometrical projection. In each department there should be an 

 elementary and an advanced class, and each class should be 

 taught by men acquainted with the special work. 



There should be prizes given upon the plan adopted for 

 artistic drawing, and these prizes should be equal in importance 

 to those given for excellence in the fine arts. 



In each school there would therefore be prizes 

 1st, For highly-finished shaded and coloured drawings. 

 2nd, For linear drawings, neither coloured nor shaded. 

 3rd, For largo scale detail drawings, boldly coloured in the 

 style required for use in the machine shop or in the field. 

 4th, For plans and surveys. 



5th, For drawings of the constructive details of buildings. 

 6th, For writing and printing. 

 7th, For geometrical projections. 



In the larger schools I would add prizes for perspective 

 drawings, accurately corresponding to given plans and ele- 

 vations. 



There should be an annual exhibition of the work executed 

 by the students, and there should be a national exhibition of 

 the prize drawings and national prizes for the whole of Great 

 Britain. This would be encouragement on a very different 

 scale from the prizes now offered for little linear drawings, five 

 of which are to be executed in four hours, and which test the 

 power of the draughtsman to enlarge little lithographed sketches. 

 I am convinced that every one of the above classes would fill 

 in every considerable town ; but if, instead of teaching the 

 practical work, geometrical projection and the French form 



