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[Jan. 1908. 



The cattle section compi ised some of the finest animals of Southern India, 

 and prizes were awarded for trotting, ploughing, heavy draught, riding, and breed- 

 ing animals. 



A lecture on the Cultivation of Fibre Plants was delivered at the 

 Exhibition by Mr. Cameron, Superintendent of Government Gardens, in which he 

 specially recommended the cultivation of Sisal Hemp in Mysore. 



Dr. Lehmann delivered a lecture on the Sugar Industry, of which he has made 

 a special study. 



The subjects of other lectures were " Co-operative Banks," " Mineral Indus- 

 tries," " Hand-loom Weaving," " Water and Water-borne Diseases," " Selection 

 and Preservation of Seed," " Recent Researches in Plague," " Milk and Milk Pro- 

 ducts," "Cattle Disease," "The Improvement of Agriculture," "Printing and 

 Dyeing with Veg2table Stuffs," " Common Insects and their relation to Disease," 

 (the last being the subject of Dr. Pani, late of Ceylon, and now Health Officer of 

 Bangalore). 



In addition to the above an Engineering Conference was held on the 21sb 

 October, 



The Educational Exhibit was formally opened on the 18th October. It 

 was suggested by the Exhibition held in August by the Madras Department of 

 Agriculture — the first of the kind in India. The chief attraction at the latter 

 was a large collection of exhibits showing the work of pupils of English schools 

 received from the Board of Education in England and the London County Council. 

 These were supplemented at Mysore by many valuable exhibits which arrived from 

 England too late for the Madras Exhibition, a collection of Manual Training Models 

 presented to the Mysore Department of Education by the London County Council, 

 . drawings, designs, models and specimens of handiwork presented by the Educational 

 Committees of Leeds and Bradford, as well as a collection of Nature Study exhibits 

 presented by Mr. Dymond, His Majesty's Inspector for Nature Study. 



The English loan collection comprised many excellent specimens of Nature 

 Study drawings, paintings, clay models, needlework, lace work and embroidery, and 

 exhibits relating to all sections of domestic economy, including cookery, house- 

 wifery, laundrywork, the records of school journeys and of school work in every 

 subject taught, the time tables of the County Council Schools, and the schemes of 

 science and other courses. Alongside of the models of wood and metal work from 

 England were the models of Swedish Sloyd as adapted and developed in Boston 

 Normal School for teachers. These were supplemented by local collections 

 of exhibits from both boys' and girls' schools in Mysore, including drawings and 

 models showing much promise. n his address at the opening of the Educational 

 Exhibit, the Inspector-General of Education said :— 



" I hope the Exhibition will show to our teachers how greatly the ideals and 

 methods of educationists in Europe and America have altered in matters relating 

 to elementary education during the last twenty or thirty years ; how children 

 from the time of their infancy are taught to observe accurately and express their 

 ideas of what they observe in words, drawings or paintings, how nature study has 

 become the basis of all early education, how the eye and hand are trained, first 

 in the Kindergarten and, later, by constructive work, which aftert he age of ten 

 takes the form of Agriculture in " rural schools, and of Sloyd or wood, metal and 

 machine work in town schools, how the aim is to combine with accurate observation 

 and clear reasoning a well-developed body, a healthy self-activity and a resource- 

 fulness and will-power which can only be acquired by scientific manual training." 



In connection with this exhibition a short series of lectures was arranged, 

 consisting of lantern lectures on educational subjects, and demonstration classes to 

 show the method of instructing deafmutes and the blind. 



