Oy WAVE-LENGTH TABLES OF THE SPECTRA OF THE ELEMENTS. 433 



The Teaching of Science in Elementani Schools. — Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Dr. J. H. GLADSTONE {Chairman), Professor 

 H. E. Armstrong {Secretary), Professor W. E. Dunstan, Mr. 

 George Gladstone, Sir John Lubbock, Sir Philip Magnus, Sir 

 H. E. EoscoE, and Professor S. P. Thompson. 



Appendix. — Schedule IT. — Elementary Science and Geography 

 Schedule IV. — Elementary Phystcs and Chemistry 



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Your Committee are able to report that the quantity, if not the quality, 

 of the teaching of Science subjects in Elementary Schools has made 

 progress during the past year. The following table, made up from the 

 return issued by the Education Department, gives the figures for the 

 •scientific class subjects as compared with English. In the report for last 

 year it was mentioned that the number of school departments takino- 

 object lessons would greatly increase, as the Government code of regu- 

 lations announced that they would become obligatory in the three lower 

 standards on and after September 1, 1896. We now see the result, so far 

 as the schools are concerned whose school year ended between August 31, 

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