ON THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 



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Historical and geographical readers are provided in every department, 

 and even though the subject he not taken for the Government examina- 

 tion, the children are always questioned on the matter of the reading 

 books by the Board's Inspector. 



II. Specific subjects (scientific). 



HI. Science teaching under the Science and Art Department is given 

 as follows : — ■ 



The Brighton School Board had the following number of children 

 studying the specific subjects during the quarter ending March 25, 188-1: 



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

 as the second, the number of children under instruction beino- 2,879 - 

 while only one girls' department, with 119 children, takes geography for 

 the Government examination, though it is taught in most of the others 



