ON BOTANICAL PHOTOGRAPHS. 421 
Regd 
No. Locality Subject 
343 # Nahoonk >; ; : . Encephalartos altensteinii, in natural 
habitat ; May 1906. 
344 Nahom River, HE. London, $.Africa Hncephalartos altensteinii, in natural 
habitat; May 1906. 
345 Queenstown, S. Africa . : . Lncephalartos Friderici-Guilielmio, ? 
in natural habitat ; May 1906. 
346 Nahoonk, E. London,S. Africa . Hncephalartos altensteinii, in natural 
habitat; May 1906. 
347 = Nr. Finchaus Nek, Queenstown, 8. Zvrythrina acanthocarpa with Acacia 
Africa horrida scrub in the distance; May 
1906. 
The Conditions of Health Essential to the carrying on of the Work 
of Instruction in Schools.—Report of the Commuttee, consisting of 
Professor SHERRINGTON (Chairman), Mr. E.Wuite WALLIS (Secre- 
tary), Sir Epwarp Brasroox, Dr. C. W. Kimmins, Professor L. C. 
Mirai, Miss A. J. Cooper, and Dr. ErHeL WILLIAMS. 
THE Committee have under consideration several matters affecting health 
in schools, but with regard to some of these the investigations are not 
sufficiently complete to report progress. They submit, however, a further 
report on children’s playtime and leisure, and an interim statement with 
regard to ventilation of schools. 
The Committee had in co-operation with them in their investigations 
and deliberations the valuable assistance of Dr. C. Childs, Dr. Friede- 
berger, Mrs. Gomme, Mrs. Kimmins, Dr. James Kerr, Miss Ravenhill, 
Dr. C. E. Shelly, Professor W. N. Shaw, Mr. J. Osborne Smith, and 
Mrs. White Wallis. 
Children’s Playtime and Leisure. 
Following up the previous inquiry on the playtime and leisure of 
school children, investigations have been made in the neighbourhoods of 
Bermondsey, Kensington, and Hampstead as to how the playtime allotted 
to children is spent, and as to how their leisure is employed at home. It 
is found that there is practically no connection maintained between the 
school and the home life of the children ; therefore that in most cases 
much of the good done at school is being lost to the children because of 
the ignorance or indifference of the homes as to the welfare of the children ; 
while in other cases help is being lost that might be rendered to the 
school by consultation with the parents about the activities of their children 
at home. 
The Committee therefore recommend :— 
1. That opportunities be afforded to teachers of meeting the parents 
of children, in the school building, for talks on school and home matters, 
with the view of bringing home and school into closer touch ; and that 
for this purpose each class teacher be encouraged to invite the parents of 
the children in his or her class, once a term if possible, at the end of the 
afternoon school, in order to interest them in the work done by their 
own children in school, and to demonstrate to the parents how the 
physical and moral development of the children has been helped by means 
of organised play. 
