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chemistry, especially as applied to dyeing and printing ; 

 physics with its applications to heating, steam-boilers, drying 

 and ventilation ; mechanics, embracing prime motors, materials 

 and construction ; hygiene, including physiology, noxious and 

 useful animals, dangerous and unhealthy occupations, conta- 

 gious diseases and how to avoid taking them ; rural economy 

 and "industrial plants." Manual exercises are conducted in 

 the workshops in making, mending, putting up and shipping 

 looms, in turning, filing, forging, fitting and various joiner's and 

 machinist work. Frequent visits are made to the various 

 factories in Lyons, under the lead of an instructor, where every 

 part and process is fully explained. The students afterwards 

 draw from memory plans of patterns and of machines. 



About one hundred pupils on an average are in attendance. 

 The regular charge for tuition, use of laboratories and work- 

 shops, is $140 a year. Indigent students are aided by the 

 Chamber of Commerce and Municipal Council of Lyons, so 

 that a portion only pay the fijl-t-^ttitien. . That this school, 

 conducted without aid fromytfe government of France, should 

 be so liberally supported by /the citizens of Lyons, and continue 

 to flourish for so long a period, is ample evidence , of its great 

 usefulness in the opinion of the most competent jddges. 



More than sixty years ago France^started special schools in 

 the arts of designing, engraving and dyeing ; in silk and ribbon 

 weaving and lace making ; in carving, stone-cutting and dia- 

 mond-cutting (hence the diamond-cutting for the world is still 

 carried on mainly in Paris) ; in porcelain and various ceramic 

 productions, and the preeminence thus gained is still retained. 

 The artistic manufactures of France command the markets of 

 the world. The Industrial Schools more recently organized in 

 Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Italy and England, 

 which in the aggregate are numbered by thousands, make these 

 nations formidable competitors in artistic work. 



When invited by the Minister of Public Instruction of France 

 to visit the National Porcelain Factory at Sevres, I expressed 

 to him surprise that such an establishment should come under 

 the supervision of the Educational Department, to which he 

 replied, "It is because it is the duty of this department to 

 supervise and control the Preparatory School for Sevres, which 



