498 REPORT—1890. 
APPENDIX II. 
ScoOTLAND. 
Hlementary Science Schedule. 
(a.) ANIMAL.—St. III. General notions of the differences of structure of beast, bird, 
fish, insect, and reptile. 
St. IV. Classification, with habits and uses. 
St. V. (Man.) Circulation, respiration, and alimentation. 
St. VI. (Man.) Bones, muscle, brain, nerves; the organs of sight, 
smell, touch, hearing, and taste. 
(b.) VEGETABLE.—St. III. Comparison of animal with vegetable life. General 
structure of a plant, root, stem, flower, with specimens. 
St. IV. Plant structure. Wood, bark, pith, cells. Uses of 
different parts of a plant. 
St. V. Food and growth of plants. Exogens and endogens. 
Formation of different kinds of fruit. 
St. VI. Principles of classification, with a general knowledge of 
the chief orders. Germination, ferns, mosses. 
(e.) Marrer.—St. III. Matter, organic and inorganic, elementary and compound. 
Its three interchangeable states, solid, liquid, gaseous. The 
properties of matter. 
St. IV. Energy indestructible. Force, inertia, momentum, gravita- 
tion, cohesion, chemical affinity, combination and decomposition. 
Preparation and properties of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and 
chlorine. 
St. V. Heat. What it is; effects of; modes of; thermometer. 
Reflection and refraction of light; dispersion of light by a prism, 
Microscope ; telescope. 
St. VI. Magnets; kinds, structure, uses. Mariner’s compass. Elec- 
tricity, kinds, laws; electroscope, electrophorus, telegraph, Lever, 
wedge, screw. 
Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. S. BouRNE, Pro- 
fessor F. Y. EpGEwortH (Secretary), Professor H. 8. FOXWELL, 
Mr. RopertT GIFFEN, Professor ALFRED MarsHaLi, Mr. J. B. 
MartTIN, Professor J. S. NicHotson, Mr. R. H. InGiis PALGRAVE, 
and Professor H. Sipawick, appointed for the purpose of in- 
quiring and reporting as to the Statistical Data available for 
determining the amount of the Precious Metals in use as Money 
in the principal Countries, the chief Forms in which the Money 
is employed, and the amount annually used in the Arts. 
Your Committee, as stated in last year’s report, anticipated that a good 
deal of light would be thrown on this subject by the experience gained 
in connection with the withdrawal of the pre-Victorian sovereigns and 
the arrangements which were made by Mr. Palgrave and Mr. Martin to 
count samples of the coinage in circulation and to ascertain the propor- 
tion of the pre- Victorian coinage to the total. 
Messrs. Martin and Palgrave have informed the Committee, however, 
that they have not yet completed the investigations in which they have 
been engaged. As the information may become public through some 
other channel, and as no progress can be made in other directions, it will 
be for consideration whether the Committee need be continued. ‘ 
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