se: Correspondence of Jerome Nickles. 
of France, but also from those of other nations. The objects 
exhibited are of the following kinds: 
Ist. Specimens of vise by the pupils of the primary schools, 
(penmanship, calculation.) 
2d. Plans for the building of school houses. 
3d. Drawing by pupils of the primary schoo 
4th. Books, apparatus and methods of instruction; general 
pedagogy; plans for lectures; methods of reading; of writing; 
of instruction in arithmetic, history, and geography; and in- 
struction in singin 
5th. Instruction in agriculture and horticulture. 
6th. Instruction in Natural History. 
7th. Needle work of the girls’ school. 
8th. Arrangement and furniture of salles d’asile. 
ou School libraries, 
10th. Gymnastics. 
A commission chosen from among ie most pompetens men 
was charged to classify and examine all the objects, 
ports made on tale occasion have been printed by the order of 
the evga e form an octavo vohang, which is not on 
lly thea 
is an interesting report on the protection afforded. to children 
scale, and without government intervention. It serves to in- 
cite the other industrial villages to similar provisions for the 
working classes. 
Another part of this Exposition relates to the pubbcatpat of 
maps in relief of the various chains of mountains in F 
n, by Mr. 
works at the Polytechnic School, Mr, Bardin has called his 
mere fetenograplie enseignée par des plans-relief et des dessin. 
and numerous reliefs are exhibited at the Invalides, 
in age Vauban hall. They will remain there on exhibition dur- 
ing all next year. 
Banquet of Chemists .—On April 22d, while the Universal 
Exposition was in _ progress, the French chemists offered to 
| gi anquet. More than 300 per- 
k part. there Although the fée is called “ Banquet 
of hemi ” there were also en permoett, mineralogists, 
