TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION L. 847 



4. The Relation of Technical Instruction to Industrial Development 

 in Ireland. By T. P. Gill. 



8ATU11DAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 

 The Section did not meet. 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 



'Tlie following Reports aild Papers were read : — 



1. Report on the Conditions of Health Esseiitial to the carrying on oj the 

 Work of Instruction in Schools. — See Reports, p. 48.3. 



2. Report on the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools. 

 See Reports, p. 481. 



3. Discussion on the Training of Teachers. 

 Opened hy Miss L. Edna Walter a-iid Professor H. L. Withers. 



4. Joint Discussion ibith Section G on the Training of Engineers. 



fUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 

 The following Papel'3 were read : — 

 1. A UniiSersdl Language. By Sir F. J. BkamwelL, Kart.j I.R.S. 



2; Discussion on the Teaching of English 

 Opened by P. J". Hartoo, B.Sc 



3: The Neghct of English Grammar. By Pl-dfessoi' MiNCHlN. 



The teaching of reading, spelling, and English grammar has disappeared from 

 English schools for what are termed ' the tetter classes.' Practically, a boy has 

 to learn these subjects in the nurserj- or not at all ; for as they do not count in 

 the system of the public schools the preparatory schools do not teach them these 

 latter being exact miniature copies of the former. 



The result of the neglect of English grammar is a mass of bad composition, 

 instances of which can be collected at any moment from the articles in our leadiu"- 

 newspapers, magazines, and reviews, as well as from the works of esteemed authors. 



A comparatively small number of types of faulty writing are quoted in the 

 Paper. 



The neglect of the study of grammar in the schools results also in many errors 

 in ordinary conversation, and, to some exteut, in errors of pronunciation. 



English grammar is neglected in the schools because thete bodied are under 



