376 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
Charts and Pictures for use in Schools.—Final Report of the 
Committee (Sir RicHaRD GreGory, Chairman; Mr. G. D. DUNKERLEY, 
Secretary; Mr. C. E. Browne, Dr. Linian J. Cuarxe, Mr. E. N. 
Fauuaize, Mr. C. B. Fawcert, Professor 8S. J. Hickson, F.R.S., 
Mr. O. J. R. Howarru, Mr. A. E. L. Hupson, Mr. C. C. T. Morison, 
Mr, H. J. E. Peaks, Professor 8. H. Reynoups, Professor H. E. Roar, 
Sir Napier Suaw, F.R.S., Dr. T. W. WoopHeEap). 
Introduction. 
Tuis Committee was formed at the Bournemouth meeting of the British Association 
in 1919, with the following terms of reference :—‘ To inquire into the provision of 
Educational Charts and Pictures for display in Schools.’ It presented an interim 
report to the Cardiff meeting in 1920. The Committee hoped to arrange for an 
exhibition of selected pictures, but it had reluctantly to give up the project owing to 
the difficulty of meeting the necessary expenditure. 
The Committee, at its earlier meetings, came to the conclusion that, to keep the 
report within reasonable limits and at the same time serve a useful purpose, attention 
should be confined to the compilation of a list of pictures suitable for display in 
schools and for decorative rather than purely educative purposes, the list to be select 
rather than expansive. 
Supply of Suitable Pictures. 
Many sets of pictures for use in schools have been published from time to time, 
yet, in the main, these have been designed more as adjuncts to the school lesson 
than as decorative, artistic, and stimulative in effect as well as of educational value. 
Of late years, the National Society, the Art for Schools Association, and other 
organisations have done excellent work in cataloguing and supplying pictures of 
artistic merit, but little attempt has been made in this country to produce and supply 
decorative pictures intended to inspire interest in national objects and scenes or 
the achievements of man. Unfortunately, the Art for Schools Association has been 
compelled to curtail its activities and steps have been taken to dissolve the Association. 
However, to meet the considerable demand for orders, the office has been transferred, 
by the invitation of the Director of the International Students’ Bureau, to 56 Russell 
Square, W.C.1, and is still at the service of school authorities. The London County 
Council has for some time had the matter of school pictures under consideration, 
and in an interim report of a Special Advisory Committee of the Education Committee, 
July 1920, occurs the following statement :— 
‘Tt is only within comparatively recent times that it has been realised that the 
school picture should be designed for its purpose. About 1891 Heywood Sumner, 
Selwyn Image, Christopher Whall, and Louis Davis designed a series of pictures 
which were published by Mr. Heywood Sumner under the name of the FitzRoy 
Publishing Society. These pictures may be regarded as the beginning of the modern 
conception of the school picture as a wall decoration of suitable size and simple colour 
treatment in addition to its class use. In spite of this excellent lead, the work of 
British publishers has been, on the whole, inferior in conception and execution to 
that of the French, and especially of the Germans, who, for some time before the 
war, by the quality of their productions were gaining command of the market in this 
important branch of educational supply. This situation may be regarded as 
disastrous for two reasons. In the first place, it is generally recognised that one of 
the chief influences which such pictures may exert lies in the direction of national 
inspiration, and it is unthinkable, for this reason at least, that the preparation of them 
should be in alien hands, and that they should present an alien point of view. 
“Secondly, so long as the matter is left uncontrolled as a chance commercial 
speculation, institutions and others are forced to choose from what is brought to 
them, with little chance of getting what they most require. 
“In this connection it is interesting to record that, so long ago as 1906, there was 
held at the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts an exhibition 
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