Sept. 1 8, 1884] 



NA TURE 



497 



/3 



179 

 825 



;,47§ 



Totals 



... 19,059 ... 9,003 ... 14,739 

 The following information has been furnished from the Man- 

 chester School Board : — 

 I. Class subjects. 



Boys Girls 



13 - 



Totals ... 69 ... 45 9 ... 2 ... 84 ... 47 ... 29 



Historical and geographical readers are provided in every 

 department, and even though the subject be not taken for the 

 Government examination the children are always questioned on 

 the matter of the reading-books by the Board's Inspector. 



II. Specific subjects (scientific). 



Departments 



Subject 1882 1884 



Algebra 1 



Euclid and Mensu- > Mathem 



ration ) 



Mechanics 



Animal Physiology 



Botany 



Domestic Economy — ... 10 ... — ... 2 



Totals 10 ... 10 ... 17 ... 6 



III. Science teaching under the Science and Art Department 

 is given as follows : — 



Departments 





l;,.v- 

 3 



Girls 



Mathematics 



Physiology 



Chemistry 3 2 



Sound, Light, and Heat 2 ... 2 



Magnetism 2 ... 2 



Totals 11 ... 9 



The Brighton School Board had the following number of 

 children studying the specific subjects during the quarter ending 

 March 25, 1S84 : — 



Boys Girls 



Algebra 285 ... — 



Euclid and Mensuration 13 ... — 



Animal Physiology 292 ... 6 



Magnetism and Electricity 149 ... — 



Domestic Economy — ... 261 



As to class subjects, the ten boys' departments all take up 

 geography as the second, the number of children under instruc- 

 tion being 2879; while only one girls' department, with 119 

 children, takes geography for the Government examination, 

 though it is taught in most of the others through reading lessons. 

 The other nine girls' departments, with 2339 children, take 

 needlework as the second class subject. At the Southport meet- 

 ing a recommendation was passed that this Committee "be re- 

 quested to consider the desirableness of making representations 

 to the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council 

 on Education in favour of aid being extended towards the fitting 

 up of workshops in connection with elementary day schools or 

 evening classes, and of making grants on the results of practical 



instruction in such workshops under suitable direction, and, if 

 necessary, to communicate with the Council." As it was believed 

 that the second Report of the Royal Commissioners on Technical 

 Instruction would have an important bearing upon this question, 

 the Committee was not called together till the publication of that 

 Report. It was not issued till May, and it then appeared that, 

 in addition to a very large amount of valuable information, the 

 Royal Commissioners had recommended, among other things : — 

 " (b) That there be only two class subjects instead of three in 

 the lower division of elementary schools, and that the object 

 lessons for teaching elementary science shall include the subject 

 of geography." " (d) That proficiency in the use of tools for 

 working in wood and iron be paid for as a specific subject, 

 arrangements being made for the work being done, so far as 

 practicable, out of school hours. That special grants be made 

 to schools in aid of collections of natural objects, casts, drawings, 

 &c. , suitable for school museums." With reference to recom- 

 mendation (b) your Committee, without expressing any opinion 

 as to the desirability of forming one subject out of geography 

 and elementary science, consider that, if this change be effected, 

 the two class subjects which will then represent literature and 

 science should stand upon an equal footing. This would be in 

 accordance with the resolution of the Council passed on Decem- 

 ber 5, 1881, in considering the recommendations of your Com- 

 mittee in regard to the proposals for the new Code. At present, 

 if only one class subject is taken, the Code requires that it should 

 be " English " (grammar and literature) ; but many managers or 

 teachers might prefer taking science. With respect to recom- 

 mendation (d) your Committee thoroughly approve of the pro- 

 posals, which, if carried out, would realise the wish expressed in 

 the reference to them from the Southport meeting. They have 

 not, however, thought it necessary to communicate at once with 

 the Council, as there is no immediate legislation in prospect, and 

 the meeting at Montreal might like to give further instructions 

 on the subject. The name of Prof. N. Story Maskelyne, M.P., 

 has been replaced on the Committee. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir Joseph Hooker, 

 Dr. Giintlier, Mr. Howard Saunders, and Mr. P. L, Sclater 

 (Secretary), appointed for the Purpose of Exploring Kilimanjaro 

 and the Adjoining Mountains of Eastern Equatorial Africa. — 

 (1) The Committee have the satisfaction of announcing that 

 they have made arrangements with Mr. H. H. Johnston (who 

 has recently returned from the Congo) to undertake an explora- 

 tion of Kilimanjaro, and that he is probably by this time en- 

 camped upon that mountain. (2) The Committee have arranged 

 with Mr. Johnston to undertake the cost of the expedition for 

 1000/., without reference to personal remuneration. It is believed 

 that the necessary expenditure will not be covered by this sum, 

 but Mr. Johnston has agreed to make good any deficiency. (3) 

 Towards this sum of 1000/. the Committee have appropriated a 

 sum of 500/. granted to them by the Association at their last 

 meeting at Southport. The Committee have also received from 

 the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society two 

 sums of 250/. each, so that the whole sum of iooo'. required 

 for the expedition is already available. (4) But looking forward 

 to the risks of African travel, and to the expenditure likely to 

 be incurred on the transport to this country, and on the work- 

 ing out of the collections obtained by Mr. Johnston, the Com- 

 mittee trust that a further sum of 50/. may be placed at their 

 disposal. (5) A copy of part of Mr. Johnston's last letter to 

 the Secretary of the Committee, containing an account of the 

 progress of the expedition, is annexed to this Report. 



Extracts from a letter from Mr. Johnston to Mr. Sclater, dated 

 British Residency, Zanzibar, May 13, 1S84 : — "At last my 

 expedition, thanks to the help of Sir John Kirk, is organised 

 and ready to start. I have engaged thirty- two men here (at 

 Zanzibar), and have sent them off to Mombasa in a dow to await 

 my coming. I myself leave to day for Mombasa in the mail. 

 At Momba-a, through the Consul (Capt. Gissing), I have en- 

 gaged sixty more men, for it will need nearly a hundred porters 

 to carry my goods and baggage to Chagga. I hope to leave 

 Mombasa in a fortnight's time. I anticipate three weeks' easy 

 travel to Kilimanjaro, and, as far as it is possible to foretell aught 

 in Africa, no serious difficulties seem to stand in my way. The 

 expedition, however, will prove much more costly than I had 

 anticipated. . . . However, I think I shall be able to make 

 both ends meet for six months on Kilimanjaro, and if I stay 

 longer, or make a dash at Kenia, it will be on my own account. 

 I shall probably make Taita or Teita (vide map) a half-way 

 house, and go backwards and forwards with collections and 



