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and embroidered — from Langdale and Donegal ; wood, brass, iron, 
and mosaic-work and decorated pottery from the Abbotskerswell 
and Kingskerswell Cottage Classes. 
Note by the Lecturer. — Since the above paper was read I have been 
favoured with some information respecting the Sloyd system of education, as 
practised in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. It comprises simple metalwork, 
smithwork, basket-making, painting, trade fretwork, needlework, carpentry, 
carving and turning. The Sloyd system is spread over Scandinavia and 
Finland, and is taught even within the Arctic Circle. In Sweden alone 
wood Sloyd is practised in 800 national schools, has been introduced into 
secondary schools for boys, and is now being adopted even in the upper 
schools for girls. It has also been introduced into France, Belgium, Germany, 
Austria, Russia, and the United States, and is about to be taken up in 
Abyssinia, through the instrumentality of the Swedish missionaries. Herr 
Abrahamson, a wealthy Gottenberg merchant, founded in 1872, in memory 
of his wife, a Slojd (Sloyd) seminary, on his estate between Stockholm and 
Gottenburg, for the training of teachers in the various branches of instruction 
that the Sloyd system promotes. 
CONVEESAZIONE. 
(5th January, 1888.) 
An account of the proceedings will be found in the 
Report of the Secretaries. 
THE OBEE-AMMEEGAU PASSION PLAY, 1880. 
BY REV. W. BINNS. 
(Read 12th January, 1888.) 
PEE-OEGANIC EVOLUTION. 
BY REV. PROFESSOR CHAPMAN, LL.D. 
(Read 19th January, 1888.) 
