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of good apparatus for each school is saved. In the central laboratory the: 
work for all the sixty-two departments in which lessons are given is 
prepared. 
The chief demonstrator is paid 300/.; the first assistant 150/.; and 
second assistant 110/.; while two juniors receive 10s. and 12s. per week.. 
The cost of the apparatus has been about 2501. or 3001. 
It would be quite possible for a number of schools in country districts: 
to join together and secure the same advantage at a trifling cost to each. 
The essential parts of the system are: (1) the employment of thoroughly — 
scientific men to give experimental demonstrations, and, (2) the introdue- 
tion of elementary science as a regular course of instruction. 
In order to prepare the way for the Science Teaching in the upper 
standards, the teachers of the infants’ schools and of the lower standards. 
in the upper schools are instructed to make their object lessons systematic, 
although of course divesting them of technicality. A series of suggestions. 
for systematic object lessons has been prepared by the Science Demon- 
strator and circulated among the teachers, so that the scholars may be 
gradually led to the work of the upper standards. 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir FREDERICK BRAMWELL. 
(Secretary), Dr. A. W. Witutamson, Professor Sir WILLIAM 
THomson, Mr. Str. Jonn Vincent Day, Sir WILLIAM SIEMENS,. 
Mr. C. W. Merririetp, Dr. Nremtson Hancock, Sir FREDERICK 
ABEL, Captain DouGLas Gauton, Mr. E. H. Carsurr, Mr. Macrory, 
Mr. H. TRuEMAN Woop, Mr. W. H. Bartow, and Mr. A. T. 
ATCHISON, appointed for the purpose of watching and reporting 
to the Council on Patent Legislation. 
Tue fact that an Act for the reform of the Patent laws was passed in the: 
Session just concluded, has of necessity thrown a good deal of work 
upon the Committee. It has met five times, and nearly every member: 
of it was present at one or more of the meetings. The following gentle- 
men have been added :—Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Alfred Carpmael, Mr. R. 
E. Webster, Q.C., and Mr. Theodore Aston, Q.C. 
Besides the Government Bill, which was introduced on February 19, 
the Bill prepared by the Society of Arts, and referred to in previous 
reports of this Committee (see British Association ‘ Report,’ 188], 
p. 222, and 1882, p. 310), was again introduced by Sir John Lub- 
bock, and Mr. Anderson also introduced a Bill generally similar to 
those he has brought forward in former years. . The last two Bills were 
read a second time, but were not further proceeded with. After the 
second reading of the Government Bill, it was referred to the Grand 
Committee on Trade, by which some alterations of a more or less im- 
portant character were made. The final stages were run through rather 
rapidly, and, in one of the last weeks of the Session, it passed through 
the House of Lords. The speed with which, after the long delay in the 
earlier part of the Session, the Bill was carried through Parliament, 
rendered it by no means easy to obtain amendment in it, and indeed 
