598 
On Technical Education. 
[October, 
Organic Chemistry (Theoretical ) , Elementary Stage. 
Number 
of First-class Successes... 
55 
Percentage 
Numbers. 
31*42 
a 
of Second-class Successes 
7i 
4°*57 
of Failures 
49 
28*00 
Number 
Advanced Stage. 
of First-class Successes... 
22 
29 ‘33 
of Second-class Successes 
37 
49*33 
ff 
of Failures 
16 
21-33 
Organic Chemistry ( Practical ), Elementary 
Stage. 
Number 
of First-class Successes... 
22 
Percentage 
Numbers. 
26-50 
of Second-class Successes 
38 
4578 
of Failures 
23 
2771 
Number 
Advanced Stage. 
of First-class Successes... 
54 
54-00 
9 9 
of Second-class Successes 
29 
29*00 
9 > 
of Failures 
17 
17*00 
In perusing these figures we notice that whilst 5299 went 
in for examination in the Elementary and 938 in the Ad- 
vanced Stage in Inorganic Chemistry, only 175 went in for 
examination in the Elementary and 75 in the Advanced 
Stage in Organic Chemistry : this appears but a small return 
from the 1360 schools, or the 61,177 pupils in these schools, 
supplemented as this number was by 5804 pupils from ex- 
traneous sources. 
We are deprived of the means of forming any opinion on 
the practical examinations in the Advanced Stage, both in 
Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, for, unlike the examina- 
tions given in every other subject, even in every other exa- 
mination in Chemistry, including the Elementary Practical 
in both divisions of the Science, the examination given is 
not stated ; all that the public are informed about these 
examinations is, that a certain number of substances may 
or may not be present in the mixtures given for analysis ; 
we are not informed how many and what substances were 
present. No good and sufficient reason can be assigned for 
withholding this information from the public ; for if the 
