On Technical Education. [February, 
feeling of uneasiness ; the foulest of stenches scarcely pro- 
cluces. a feeling of aversion. Yet we shall be doing great 
injustice to the poor in attributing such conditions entirely 
to their own action. Much of this mischief must come 
from conditions of life entailed upon them by the truly mar- 
vellous economy (to put the matter mildly) which builders, 
landowners, and architects have exhibited, with respeCt to 
space, in the arrangement and construction of dwellings. 
V. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
(Continued from vol. v., page 604.) 
IN the last article I stated that I would propose a scheme 
0) ^ss costly and more efficient than the Department of 
Science and Arts’ plan, prefacing the description of the 
scheme by showing what could be accomplished in Evening 
Science Schools, by describing what has actually been ac- 
complished in Evening Science Classes in Chemistry. But 
before entering on these topics it appears to me desirable to 
notice one or two of the views put forward on Science 
teaching at the British Association, and Social Science, 
meetings, last autumn. 
^ The first I will notice was that proposed by Mr. Lant 
Carpenter. The essence of his system, he stated, was the 
employment of a specially appointed Expert, who should go 
from school to school with his apparatus, repeating the same 
lesson in each. He said the system was conceived and ela- 
borated during the last few years by the Liverpool School 
Board. In this he is totally mistaken ; as far back as 1850 
the respected Keeper of the Mining Records in the School 
of Mines, Mr. Robert Hunt, established this system in 
Cornwall under the name “ The Miners’ Association.” He 
gave a detailed statement of the system, as to its working, 
<Src., in 1868, to the SeleCt Committee appointed by the 
House of Commons to inquire into the provisions for giving 
instiuCtion in fheoietical and Applied Science to the 
industrial classes ; and his evidence is fully set forth in the 
