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KEPORT — 1881. 



' Paris Soc. Philom Bull.' 



Report of the. Committee, consisting of Mr. James Heywood, F.R.S., 

 Mr. William Shaen, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Mr. Robert Wil- 

 kinson, the Rev. W. Delany, Prof. N. Story Maskelyne, M.P., 

 F.R.S., Dr. SiLVANUS P. Thompson, JNIiss Lydia E, Becker, Sir 

 John Lubbock, Bai-t., 31. P., F.R.S., Professor A. W. Williamson, 

 F.R.S., Mrs. Augusta Webster, and Dr. J. H. G-ladstone, F.R.S., 

 {Secretary'), on the 'tnanner in which Rtcdimentary Science 

 should he taught, and how examinations should he held therein, 

 in Elementary Schools. 



Your Committee, as constituted at Swansea, believed that it would be 

 very desirable to add to their number Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Professor 

 Williamson, F.R.S., and Mrs. Augusta Webster, Member of the London 

 School Board, each of whom is well known to have taken a deep interest 

 in the subject for which the Committee was appointed. Each of these 

 acceded to the request, and the Committee, so constituted, present the 

 following report. 



Rudimentary science is taught in public elementary schools in the 

 form of — I. Object lessons. II. Class subjects under article 19, c. 1, of 

 the New Code. III. Specific subjects under Schedule IV. of the same 



