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map should be accompanied by a general map, showing boundaries and 

 political features, and engraved on the same scale. 



15. Your Committee are of opinion that the production of a bathy- 

 hypsographical map of the British Isles, such as they recommend, together 

 with that of an accompanying political map, both on the scale of 1 : 200,000 

 (about three miles to the inch), should be left to private enterprise, the 

 production of maps on a larger scale being entrusted to the Ordnance 

 Survey Department. 



[A set of the nine maps designed by Mr. E. G. Ravenstein in illustra- 

 tion of this report can be seen in the libraiy of the Royal Geographical 

 Society.] 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. J. H. Gladstone 

 (Secretary), Professor Aemstrong, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Miss 

 Lydia Becker, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Dr. H. W. Crosskey, 

 Sir Richard Temple, Bart., Sir Henry E. Eoscoe, Mr. James 

 Heywood, and Professor N. Story Maskelyne, appointed for 

 the purpose of continuing the inquiries relating to the teaching 

 of Science in Elementary Schools. 



Your Committee, in continuing their periodic reports upon this subject, 

 have to state that nothing has been done this year in the shape of actual 

 legislation, but that great advance has been made in regard to the public 

 appreciation of the importance of scientific and technical instruction. 



The only alteration in the code of this year that at all bears upon the 

 matter is that drawing is withdrawn from the list of class subjects, which 

 gives an advantage to the claims of geography and elementary science 

 by removing a powerful competitor in those schools that can only take 

 two class subjects. 



The return of the Educati9n Department for this year shows that the 

 diminution previously noted in the teaching of science subjects still 

 continues. 



The statistics of the class subjects for four years are given in the 

 subjoined table, which shows an actual decrease in geography and 

 elementary science, notwithstanding the increase in the number of 

 departments examined. It will be seen that drawing begins to figure in 

 this year's return, but the effect of it will be much more apparent in that 

 for next year. 



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