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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 



Secondary Schools in Austria. 



Every boy and girl studies both animal and plant biology to a substantial degree, 

 including human physiology and hygiene. The work is co-ordinated with that in 

 Physics and Chemistry. 



A feature of the Austrian system is the very intimate linking of subjects ; thus we 

 find at various stages Chemistry and Physics, Biology and Chemistry, Biology and 

 Physics, Biology and Geography. 



The AUgemeine Mittelschule comprises the four upper classes (ages 10 to 14) of 

 a new democratic type of school instituted during the recent period of reconstruction 

 for all children of both sexes between the ages of 6 and 14 ; it is intended that it shall 

 gradually replace classes I to IV of the Gymnasium, Lateinrealschule and Realschule. 



Aufbauschule and Reform-Realgymnasium and Obersohule comprise higher forms 

 only. 



The Table is compiled from the following sources : — 



Schemes 1, 2 and 3 from Richtlinien fuer die gesetzliche Regelung des oesterreichiachen 

 Mittelschulivesens. 1927. Vienna : Oesterreichischen Bundesverlag. 



Scheme 4 from Lehrplan fuer AUgemeine Mittelschulen. Vienna : Deutscher 

 Verlag fuer Jugend und Volk. 



Scheme 5 from Lehrplan fuer das Reform-Realgymnasium. Vienna : Deutscher 

 Verlag fuer Jugend und Volk. 



Scheme 6 from Lehrplaenefuer die Allgemein hildenden Oherschulen. 1926. Vienna: 

 Deutscher Verlag fuer Jugend und Volk. 



Table IV. 

 Scheme ahouring hours per week allotted to Natural Science subjects. Ages 10 to 18. 



3 Some study of the solar system, geology of the soil, and distribution of plants 

 and animals, is included in the ' Erdkunde ' of Forms I to IV. 

 1" For those who do not study foreign languages. 



