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ment of Science and Art, or registered as a student in any subject of 
science in a science class under that Department.’ This would have been 
extremely injurious to the higher elementary schools which have been 
established in many of the large provincial towns; and memorials were 
therefore presented pointing out the necessity of a modification. This led 
to the withdrawal of the paragraph quoted and the restoration of the 
paragraphs in the ‘Science and Art Directory’ (§ 16, p. 30, and § 12, 
p-. 56) which were affected by it, ‘with this modification, that no scholar 
of an elementary school may be presented for examination by the Depart- 
ment of Science and Art in any subject in which he has been examined 
since the preceding lst August by the English or Scotch Education 
Departments for a class or specific subject grant, or by the Commissioners 
of National Education in Ireland for an extra branch fee.’ 
General Conclusion. 
It will be seen that this year has been fruitful in legislative and 
administrative changes that bear upon the teaching of science in elemen- 
tary schools. They have generally met with the approval of those educa- 
tionists who are interested in science and its applications, but it has yet 
to be seen how far they may be practically adapted to the purpose in view. 
APPENDIX I. 
Elementary Science. 
Standard I. Standard IT. Standard III. 
| 
Thirty lessons on common | Thirty lessons on common | Simple principles of 
objects, e.g.— objects, such as animals,| classification of plants 
A postage stamp; the post;| plants, andsubstancesem-| and animals. Sub- 
money; a lead pencil; a} ployed in ordinary life,| stances used in the 
railway train ; e.g.— arts and manufac- 
Foods and clothing ma- tures. Phenomena of 
terials, as bread, milk, eet ae the earth and atmo- 
cotton, wool; aaa Bap a sphere. 
Minerals; natural pheno- eee ez Aue: 
mena, as gold, coal, the aap Par 
day, the year. ues ARES 
Standard IV. Standard Y. Standard VI. Standard VII. 
A more advanced know- | (a) Animal or plant | (@) Animal | (a) Distribution of 
ledge of special groups| life; or and plant| plants and ani- 
of common objects, such | (6) The principlesand | life; or mals, and of the 
as— processes involved |(d)Thecom-} races of man- 
(a) Animals, or plants,| in one of the chief} monest| kind; or 
with particularreference | industries of Eng-| elements, | (b) Properties of 
to agriculture; or land; or and their| common gases; 
(b) Substances employed | (¢) The physical and | compounds;| or 
in arts and manufac-| mechanical  prin-| or (¢) Sound, or light, 
tures ; or ciples involved in| (¢) The me-| or heat, or elec- 
(ce) Some simple kinds of | the construction of | chanical| tricity, with ap- 
physical and mechanical | some common in-| powers. plications. 
appliances, e.g. the] struments, and of 
thermometer, barometer,| some simple forms 
lever, pulley, wheel and} of industrial ma- 
axle, spirit level. chinery. 
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