ON THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 



369 



The numbers during the year 1890-91 are, for— 



Ens:lisli . . . 10,82.) 



Geography • . 12,806 



Elementary Science 173 



Thus the non-obligation to take ' English ' has at once resulted in a 

 diminution of about 500 departments, and in a similar increase in 

 Geography ; while the study of Elementary Science, which had never 

 exceeded fifty -one, and had gradually sunk to as low as thirty-two depart- 

 ments, has suddenly risen to 173. We have no means of ascertaining 

 how many of these have taken one of the alternative courses of 

 Schedule II. 



The number of scholars examined in the scientific specific subjects 

 during the same eight years is as follows : — 



The numbers during the year 1890-91 are, for- 



1892. 



100,624 



B B 



