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deep debt of gratitude to Dr. Gow for the diplomatic way in which he had dealt with this matter. They all knew that Dr. Gow had an iron hand; but he had stroked Sir Robert Morant successfully with the velvet glove and had made him realize that business was meant. word of appreciation was also due to Mr. Yoxall, Mr. Sharples, and the members of the National Union of Teachers for the loyalty and common sense which had been shown by them in their dealings with the head masters and others engaged in this work. There had been a good deal of compromising in the matter, and he must say that the National Union of Teachers had shown themselves as willing as the head masters had been to give up something for the sake of bringing about a Registration Council which would represent the whole of the profession. He gathered from the resolution that, although there was not any definite instruction given to Dr. Gow to go forward in his work, yet, if carried, it might be regarded as being an instruction to Dr. Gow, or any one whom the Committee of the Conference might associate with him, to carry the work forward during the next twelve months. He had doubts whether the Board of Education would yield quite readily to the pressure that they were bringing to bear, and it was possible they might have to take very strong steps to bring about what they wanted to attain. If the Board of Education would not do what they wanted they must do it for themselves, and to show Sir Robert Morant that they intended to have what they were asking for was, perhaps, the only chance that they had of getting it. In addition to certain members of the Conference, he spoke to a very large body of head masters who were not represented on the Conference, and he also knew well the mind of the Head Mistresses as well as the Assistant Mistresses and Assistant Masters. He was confident it was a point on which the whole of the profession, represented on Dr. Gow's original deputation, was quite unanimous, and he hoped the resolution would be passed without demur and that they would leave the matter in Dr. Gow's hands.

Dr. UPCOTT (Christ's Hospital) said that, while in hearty sympathy with the first part of the resolution, he did not feel so certain about the second part. If they carried their minds back to the circumstances under which the present movement began, they would remember that, after the failure of the first attempt at a register of teachers, it was practically proposed by the representatives of secondary schools that they should themselves take the initiative in the formation of such a register. If they studied the published correspondence between Sir Robert Morant and Dr. Gow they would see that the position arrived at was this. Dr. Gow had told Sir Robert Morant that the Board of Education alone was responsible for the constitution of this Council, and Sir Robert Morant had replied: "Not at all; you yourself said you wanted a hand in the matter, and you are responsible." That was the present position, and if they passed the resolution exactly as it stood, they would admit beyond question that they handed the matter over to the Board of Education. He thought it would be unwise at this stage to do that. It would probably lead to one of two things-either the Board of Education would give way to some extent and then propose a Council-which might possibly meet their wishes, but probably notand they would thus by their own action have put themselves out of court in making further suggestions; or-and this was the result he was anxious to avoid at this delicate point-it would lead to a deadlock. Therefore, he should like the second part of the resolution to be worded in a somewhat more conciliatory form, and also in such a way as to give the Board of Education and the public to understand that they were in no way resigning their claim to have a part in the negotiations as to the constitution of this Council. He therefore moved, as an amendment, which possibly Dr. Gow would accept, that the second part of the resolution should be worded as follows: "And that this conference trusts that the Board of Education will take steps to facilitate the constitution of such a Council without further delay."

The Rev. Dr. FRY (Berkhamsted) said that he had heard with regret some of the remarks of his friend the Rev. R. D. Swallow, when he threatened severe measures if the Board of Education did not fall in with their plans. A great public department had much to consider which might not be present to the minds of head masters. He would second Dr. Upcott's amendment, because he believed that, if they got into a wrangle, they would be beaten. They could not be too conciliatory. After all, some of them had had experience of approaching the Board of Education on points on which they set great store, and he for one wished to bear testimony to the willingness which the Board had shown to meet head masters, and he had no doubt that this matter could be talked over in a friendly spirit. Some of the Committee approached the Board of Education. Sir Robert Morant practically said: "Make your own proposals." They were made. He then found fault with them, which he had a perfect right to do. Sir Robert Morant thought they had omitted some elements in teaching which he, in his position, could not allow to be entirely neglected. Let them not, as head masters, lose their heads because Sir Robert Morant did not think them infallible. They should enter on further discussion and see how far they could meet the Board. As there was no certainty that the obligation was laid on the Board of Education to carry out this matter, although they were given the permission to do

so, he suggested they should drop all kinds of polite threats and try to get once more on friendly terms with the Department.

Dr. Gow said that he was willing to accept the amendment if his seconder would do so. It really came to the same thing.

The Rev. R. D. SWALLOW signified his willingness to accept the amendment.

The amendment was then agreed to, and the resolution, as thus amended, was carried nem. con.

Inspection by the Board of Education.

Dr. GRAY (Bradfield College) moved the following resolution :"That this Conference, while anxious for the preservation of a variety of types in the secondary schools of this country, recog nizes the value of securing a more complete co-ordination of the educational system, and, with this end in view, would welcome a closer touch between the Board of Education and the authorities of the non-local schools through inspection and other direct means of communication."

He observed that the Conference showed an indisposition to face the main issues of education and inclined to pass non-commital amendments in a spirit of hasty timidity. The large secondary schools had come to the parting of the ways, when they must either hold out their hands in welcome to the Board of Education, and utter words of fellowship to that Department of the State, or ever afterwards hold their peace and take no part in the great work of co-ordinating the educational systems of the country. They had already admitted the sweet reasonableness of inspection of some sort. As to the right of the Board of Education to inspect schools which did not receive grants, they had been furnished with the opinion of two eminent counsel diametrically opposed to one another. He did not pretend to say which was right, but it was a matter of small importance. If the Board had not the right, a single-clause Act would give it them, and the present Parliament would not hesitate to pass such an Act. He admitted that, in undertaking to inspect non-local schools, the Board was proposing to give advice to institutions which were ruled by men who, at least, were the equals of the Board's Inspectors in intellectual qualifications, and he granted that this was a new feature in the problem which did not obtain in the inspection of elementary schools and the smaller grammar schools. But the Board's Inspectors would come to the secondary schools equipped with the experience which they had gathered in many schools of various types and aims. He did not believe it was ever intended in the case of non-local schools that there should be an inquisitorial criticism of their academic efficiency. The real object of the Board in asking for the inspection of non-local schools was to get the help and the fellowship of the head masters in co-ordinating the education of the country. In the most vital part, the curriculum of their schools, they had at present virtually no choice, no variety at all. It was determined by the rigid requirements of the Universities, and the Universities in their turn were bound by the rigidity of endowments of certain subjects. He hoped that the Board would insist on a modernized curriculum and recommend the Universities to bring their examinations into conformity to it. The duty of the Board's Inspectors would be not so much to criticize as to gather the materials for a graded scheme of national secondary education. They would have as much to learn as to teach. If the head masters resisted this movement now, they would be adopting a policy which would fill them with self-reproach, retard the progress of secondary education, and do manifold harm to the intellectual, moral, and material welfare of the people.

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The Rev. A. A. DAVID (Clifton College) seconded the resolution. The head masters were slipping into an unfortunate attitude towards the efforts which were being made by the Board of Education. The Board was grappling with an immense national problem, and trying by means which were no doubt open to criticism to introduce some kind of order into the present welter of educational systems in England. The head masters, who were charged with responsibilities of the highest importance, were standing aside in an attitude which could not be described as sympathetic; they were quick to criticize, but strangely slow to realize their own part in this great national duty. The immense problem had to be solved in the course of the next century somehow, and the head masters were doing nothing to solve He wished some prophet would arise among them and lift their eyes from those petty considerations which now concerned them to a consideration of how to make the best out of the heterogeneous and overlapping machinery in the midst of which they were working. They were dominated by a fear of the development of bureaucratic control which would crush the life out of their schools as it had done in France and Germany. That was an ignoble fear; they were not Frenchmen or Germans. It was also an illogical fear. Taking the English character for what it was, could they not in time devise a system which should not be too systematic to be English, and should be just systematic enough to prevent overlapping and to combine the aims and ideals of the various schools and provide some kind of machinery by which the stronger might inspire the weaker? It was to promote the growth of some such system that the help of the

head masters was urgently needed. The policy of the Board of Education at present was plastic; they were still in the stage of experiment -he did not mean to say that they were experimenting in all cases wisely; and now they would welcome any advice which was offered. But soon their policy would become hardened and stereotyped into something which the head masters would probably not like he did not say for themselves; the Board had no power over them, and he was not in a hurry to give the Board any such power, but he was thinking of the smaller schools. Now was the time to pave the way for a real Advisory Board which would be able to come down on the mistakes of the Board of Education with real vigour and real effect, in place of the influence which that Conference was now able to exercise by sporadic and rather petulant complaints. He hoped that by passing the resolution the Conference would give the Committee some encouragement to approach the Board of Education in a friendly spirit and see what could be done.

The Rev. Dr. A. E. HILLARD (St. Paul's School) moved the previous question. Three years ago Dr. Gray had laid stress on the argument that no inspection was compulsory unless the school received grants, but now he was advocating inspection, not on the invitation of the governors, but it might be, as at St. Paul's School, in opposition to their wishes. The objects which Dr. Gray aimed at were extremely ambiguous. What did he mean by "co-ordination," "a closer touch," and "other direct means of communication"? The gist of Dr. Gray's speech was inspection-not inspection by invitation of the governors of the schools, and at the option of the schools, but compulsory inspection. This was an extremely unfortunate moment, almost an unfair moment, to bring forward a suggestion that the Board of Education should enter the non-local school at any moment and as often as it pleased. The change he recommended would upset the responsibility of the governing body, and he doubted whether gentlemen would be found willing to accept the position of governor with such limitations. An unsatisfactory report would mean a complaint from the Board of Education to the governors of any given school with regard to the work of the head master, and consequently the relations of the head master and his governors would be disturbed, and the head master would feel that he was responsible no longer to one body only, but in future to two. It was of the very essence of a central board to destroy variety and to produce uniformity. The Board must have its own ideal, that of its chief for the time being, and would attempt to make all schools conform to that ideal. He seriously questioned the ability of the present Inspectors of the Board of Education to inspect the schools represented at the Conference. Until the Board was prepared to pay a body of men in whom the scholastic profession could have confidence, an inspection was practically impossible with any satisfaction to those who valued the educational interests of the country. An analysis of the present staff of secondary inspectors showed that, out of twenty-six, fifteen had not had two years' experience in any secondary school. It might be said that the Board had no power to enforce the recommendations of its inspectors, but practically it had the power by vetoing expenditure.

The Rev. W. H. CHAPPEL (King's School, Worcester) seconded "the previous question." Dr. Gray's resolution imperilled the most precious heritage of English public schools-variety, elasticity, and independence. Prof. Sadler's Moral Inquiry Reports showed that in German Gymnasien and French lycées a healthy moral tone had yet to be created, and that Hungary, which was justly proud of her secondary schools, produced, not character, but rhetoricians. Could they improve upon the inspections by the representatives of the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board? (A Voice: Yes.) He had undergone an inspection by the Board of Education, and had to answer questions about the average age of the boys, the place where the parent was born, and what the boy was going to be. That sort of inspection converted the head master into a compiler of statistics and interfered with administrative efficiency.

The Rev. H. W. MCKENZIE (Uppingham) who also opposed the resolution, said the Board of Education had not the men to do the work. He had suffered an inspection at his former school, and he spoke from experience. Its value was nil; the Inspectors told him nothing that he did not know before.

The Rev. A. J. GALPIN (King's School, Canterbury) said his experience had been different from that of the last speaker. His school had a strongly marked character of its own. Last February the Board of Education proposed to inspect it, and he welcomed the Inspectors and gave them all the help he could. It was not necessary to fill in all forms which were sent him, as many of the questions did not apply to his school. The Board sent several of their best Inspectors, including a well known Eton master, and the three days which they spent in the school were pleasant days to him and (he hoped) to them alike. They did not wish to destroy variety of type in the schools; indeed, in their report on his school they said that it would be harmful to modify the particular character of the school. In view of the possible action of the Board in future, was it not well that schools which were quite independent of the Board should give it an opportunity to learn what the different types of school were? The suitable Inspector would appear when the need for him was recognized. Personally he had no fears. Mr. F. FLETCHER (Marlborough College) strongly supported Dr.

Gray's resolution. It was most desirable that the Board should not be cut off from contact with the public schools. By conference with the Board the danger that some anticipated might be forestalled and a graver peril avoided that this "variety of type might degenerate into chaos. He suggested, however, the addition at the end of the words :-" On lines to be laid down by mutual agreement between the Conference and the Board."

Mr. H. CRADOCK-WATSON (Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby) opposed the resolution. He represented a school in receipt of grants, and he spoke with trepidation lest after what he said his grant might be cut down. He had not found the inspection itself a very serious matter, but the mass of statistics he had had to prepare tended to lower the character of the head master, and with loss of character all was lost. Speaking in that Hall, he need not bear witness to the competence and adequacy of the Merchant Taylors' Company as Governors, yet the Board proposed to add to his governing body representatives of the petty Local Authority.

Mr. J. E. KING (Bedford) supported the proposition of the previous question. He thought the motion inopportune.

The Rev. Dr. A. W. UPCOTT (Christ's Hospital) moved an amendment so that the resolution should read as follows:-"That this Conference, while recognizing the value of securing a more complete co-ordination of the educational system and a closer touch between the Board of Education and the authorities of the non-local schools through inspection or other direct means of communication, strongly deprecates any action which would tend to diminish or destroy the variety of type of the secondary schools of this country.' He was in favour of inspection, and he thought that if the Conference took no action it would amount to a desertion of the smaller schools.

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Canon SWALLOW appealed to the Chair. Were amendments to the "previous question " in order?

Dr. NAIRN said that he had requested Dr. Upcott in moving his amendment to make his remarks relevant to the "previous question." The Rev. J. R. WYNNE-EDWARDS (Leeds Grammar School) said the inspection of his school by the Board of Education had enormously increased the interest of the City of Leeds and of the Local Authorities in the school, and had been of great benefit both to himself and to the school. The Board of Education intended to take control of all education. He appealed to the Conference not to stand aside, refuse to assist the Board, and leave the smaller grammar schools that he represented in the lurch.

The previous question was then carried by 25 votes to 20, the result being received with cheers.

At the Universities the question of scholarships was complicated by political considerations, the claim of the working classes to share in the privileges of the University; but both at the Universities and at schools there was a substantial agreement that emoluments should not go to persons who did not require them. There had been a great deal of confidential correspondence between college authorities and head masters, the upshot of which was two alternative plans. The first, favoured at Oxford, was a circular to parents pointing out the duty, in case they were well-to-do, of resigning the emoluments; the second, favoured at Cambridge, was embodied in his motion, general scholarships of from £25 to £40. He himself was in favour of the larger sum, but that was a detail. The first plan, as far as it had been tried, had had some effect, but not great. A certain winner of an Oxford scholarship, to his knowledge, kept four hunters instead of two, and such cases were commoner than was generally supposed. At Radley they had scholarships of £80, £60, and £40, and the winners of £80 could often have afforded to go to college with £40 and make over the half to the son of a poor widow. Only a very scrupulous parent would refund, but only a very unscrupulous parent would claim what he knew he was not entitled to. To answer possible objections: the fear of lowering the social status and impairing the dignity of the scholar was wholly groundless as far as public schools were concerned. We want the best boy, whether rich or poor." This contention had led to the present undignified competition between college and college, school and school, which all desired to abate or end. Colleges were, fortunately, debarred by their statutes from entering the market and overbidding. Schools, unfortunately, were under no such limitation, and during the twenty years that he had been a head master he had seen a steady rise in the value of entrance scholarships from motives not purely philanthropic. A small and poorly endowed school, to his knowledge, advertised scholarships equivalent in value to £1,500 a year. A young friend of his informed him the other day, "I've got a forty-pounder at College; but I'm not going to take it. My head master tells me I'm worth at least sixty."

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The Rev. W. C. COMPTON (Dover) said that his school had adopted the plan proposed for the last thirteen years. His was probably the poorest

school represented at the Conference. They gained their fair share of honours; but, if they could afford to buy clever boys at £100 a year, they could, he doubted not, shine with the best.

Dr. JAMES (Rugby) was in sympathy with the spirit of the resolution. At Rugby a memorandum was sent to the parents of scholars, telling them of a fund for increasing the emoluments of poor scholars. It had produced some results, but inconsiderable. So many parents were on the line, and could not be counted either rich or poor. There was one objection that Dr. Field had not noticed. If the rich schools, like Eton and Winchester, have only to give three-fifths of the sumis they now expend in scholarships, because two-fifths of the scholars do not require them, they are likely to employ the remainder in increasing the number of their scholarships and so still further drain all the best talent of the country.

Dr. FIELD, replying, said the objection was serious, and had already been brought to his notice. His reply was that the money released ought to be earmarked for increasing the salaries of assistant masters. It was at their expense that scholarships were given, and even at the greater schools salaries were not what they used to be. The resolution was then moved and carried.

SECOND DAY.

Mr.

The Conference resumed its sitting on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Lyttelton (Eton) joined the Committee on the platform. The number of head masters present was about the same, but not more than a dozen assistant masters attended.

The first business was a resolution by Dr. UPCOTT, held over from the previous day:

"That this Conference, while withholding its assent to many details, and in particular to the proposal to postpone the study of Latin to the age of twelve, approves of the main conclusions of the Report of the Committee of the British Association, Education Section."

Dr. Upcott said that this report had been endorsed by all educational bodies, including even the Classical Association. When a similar resolution had been brought forward at last year's Conference, in the subsequent voting the only proposal that had been resisted was that which was excluded by his resolution.

Canon SWALLOW seconded. The only exception that could be taken (except by stalwarts like Dr. James) was to the division of hours, which seemed to him a little arbitrary.

The resolution was carried.

The Army Councils and Examinations.

Mr. S. O. ANDREW (Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon) moved : "That the Army Council be urged at once to make it a rule that recognized schools may send in candidates for any examination recognized by the Army Council."

Head masters were greatly hampered by being compelled to send in boys for examination under the same body that had inspected the school.

Mr. A. TRICE MARTIN (Bath College) seconded, and said the Army Council had informed him that they would recognize the inspection by the Board of Education, provided that the report of the Inspector was accepted by the examining body of the school, the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board. The report was accepted, not without some demur, and the Army Council had approved the school. In his opinion it was undesirable that schools should be assigned to this or that University for examination for all time; he thought the boys ought to be free to take the examinations which in the circumstances of the particular case were considered to be most helpful to their education. What they needed was uniformity of standard and flexibility of arrangements. An examining body should not have the power of rejecting the report of the inspecting body.

The Rev. Dr. FRY (Berkhamsted) said the motion was based on a misapprehension of the position. The Army Council acted on the advice of the Advisory Board of which he had been a member from the first. The Army Advisory Board desired to encourage an inspection once in every three years at least. The Board of Education did not inspect more than once in every four years. Further, the division between examination and inspection suggested by the resolution was not regarded with favour by the Advisory Board; it was thought that the inspecting body should be the examining body. nothing in the world to prevent any school which had been inspected by the Oxford and Cambridge Board, and, therefore, examined by it, from changing to any other recognized inspecting body.

There was

Mr. J. E. KING (Bedford) proposed that, as there were other anomalies in the practice of the Army Council, the whole matter should be referred to the Committee of the Conference.

The resolution was withdrawn, and Mr. King's suggestion was adopted.

School Cadet Corps.

The Rev. S. R. JAMES (Malvern College) moved :

"That, in view of the important change which has taken place in the status of the School Cadet Corps, the Committee of the Con

ference be asked to appoint a sub-committee to deal with such questions as may arise in that connexion and in connexion with the support and development of school rifle clubs, and that the sub-committee be authorized to invite the co-operation of officers commanding school corps."

Now that the School Rifle Corps had become part of the Officers' Training Corps, questions of administration were sure to arise affecting school corps, and head masters needed a central body to watch their interests and to negotiate.

Mr. F. FLETCHER (Marlborough) seconded, and the resolution was carried.

The Study of Greek.

Mr. R. C. GILSON (Birmingham, King Edward's School) moved the following three resolutions :

"(a) That, in the opinion of the Conference, the average boy cannot undertake the study of more than two languages besides English before attaining the age of fourteen years without detriment to his general education; (6) that, as the entrance and entrance scholarship examinations of the public schools largely control the curriculum in preparatory schools for the average as well as for the exceptional boys, it is desirable that no candidate of the ordinary age for admission should be allowed to offer more than two foreign languages in such examinations, and that, provided Latin is taken, Greek, French, and German should be alternatives carrying equal weight; (c) that, as experience shows it to be possible for a boy to attain a high standard of Greek scholarship by the age of eighteen or nineteen, even though he may not have begun Greek till fourteen, or even considerably later, it is the duty of public schools to provide a class or classes in which the study of Greek can be begun."

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Mr. Gilson said the Conference in 1906 at Malvern resolved, by a vote of 16 to 5 against, that the study of Greek should be postponed to the age of thirteen or fourteen, and that Greek should not be a subject of the entrance examination at the schools represented in the Conference. In the following year a resolution recommending that the standard of knowledge required in Greek for the scholarship examinations in the preparatory schools should be lowered was defeated by a vote of 16 against to 10 for. To some it seemed that the Conference had said "Yes" in 1906 and "No" in 1907 to the same question. He did not agree. He voted for the resolution of 1906, but he voted against that of 1907, because he did not wish to lower the standard of any knowledge. Some years ago he met a classical scholar of his College and of the University of the age of twenty or twenty-one who was not aware that the stars altered their apparent position during the night; and when he was assured that it was so, he argued that it could not be so, because the stars were, practically speaking, at an infinite distance from the earth. That was a condition of crass, impenetrable, swinish ignorance for which the man's tutors and masters deserved to be flogged, and the argument by which he proposed to support his ignorance exhibited the worst faults of the sophistic and scholastic method of logic-chopping which the public schools were times accused of fostering by their classical curriculum. Such a man was quite incapable of just views upon aesthetics, politics, morals, or religion; he could not be expected to have any tincture of Hellenic culture. On the pretext that they were teaching Greek, the schools were turning out men who could not observe Nature. In the earliest stages of teaching a language, six hours a week was a reasonable allowance. If twenty-four hours a week were given to teaching English, Greek, Latin, and French, where was the time to be found to teach a boy the elements of the world in which he lived? Under (b) he was careful to guard against an objection raised in 1906. A boy entering school at fifteen or later might well be allowed to offer Greek. Every schoolmaster knew that a boy might become a very good Greek scholar even though he had not taken up Greek until late. known a boy begin at the Greek alphabet at the age of fifteen years and nine months, and in one year and nine months obtain distinction in Greek in the Higher Certificate Examination of the Joint Board, and in two years or two and a half years be proxime for the Craven Scholarship. The way to turn Greek out of the schools was to go on in the present stupid method of trying to teach three foreign lan guages together to little boys in knickerbockers. The difficulty of making arrangements to give effect to (a) could hardly be seriously urged. If he had succeeded in convincing the Conference of his premises, head masters would not be deterred from carrying out the conclusions to which they led by any difficulty of rearranging time

tables.

He had

Dr. UPCOTT seconded the resolutions. All were agreed that there ought to be concentration upon a few subjects up to the age of twelve, It was quite possible to learn Greek at a comparatively late age and attain to a very high level in some cases and to a respectable level in practically all cases. Of six boys who had come to Christ's Hospital in 1902 at the age of twelve and a half knowing no Greek, all had won Oxford scholarships. There would be no need to lower the standard of Greek knowledge if these resolutions were adopted.

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Aberdeen County Schoolmasters' Association.

80. IS. To promote interests of secondary education in rural districts. Mr. George Murray, M.A., F.E.I.S., Dyce, N.B. Agriculture, Scottish Teachers of, Incorporated Institute of.

Mr. J. Wilson Sinton, F.E.I.S., F.S.Sc. (Lond.), F.S.T.A.
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Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein.

A literary association to promote the study of pure German. 28,130. Zweigverein, London. 628. 5s. Hon. Secretary, Max Sylge, 26 Sun Street, London, E. C. Alliance Française pour la propagation de la langue française.

186 Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris. President of the Federation of the British Branches, Prof. A. V. Salmon, 54 Western Elms Avenue, Reading. Hon. Secretary, F. Novion, Esq., 32 High Street, Croydon. 125 societies affiliated. Subscription

Arts, Royal Society of.

2. 25. Sir H. Trueman Wood, 18 John Street, Adelphi, W.C. Art Teachers' Guild.

I 50. To study methods of art teaching. For teachers of drawing in schools. London members 3s. 6d., others 2s. 6d. Miss B. Collins, Skinners' School for Girls, Stamford Hill, N. Assistant Masters, Incorporated Association of.

Masters in secondary schools, both public and private. 2,450. 10s. 6d. Mr. J. G. Lamb, M.A., Secretary, 31 Great James Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.

Assistant Mistresses in Public Secondary Schools, Incorporated Association of.

5s. Miss M. A. Haig-Brown, 26 Quentin Road, Blackheath. Assistant Teachers' Associations, National Federation of.

19,000. Mr. J. T. Boulter, Warwick House, Warwick Street,

Leicester.

Associated Board of Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music.

Holds Local Examinations in Music. Mr. James Muir, 15 Bedford Square, W.C.

Authors, Incorporated Society of.

Annual subscription £1. Is.

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Biblical Archaeology, Society of.

W. L. Nash, F.S.A, 37 Great Russell Street, W.C. Birmingham Council and Voluntary Schools Head Teachers' AssociaMr. J. G. Forrester, Tindal St. School, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

tion. 192. 3s.

Board of Education Library.

Board of Education, Charles Street, Whitehall, S. W.
Board of Examinations for Educational Handwork.

Recognized by Board of Education. J. Cooke, Office of the
Froebel Society, 4 Bloomsbury Square, W.C.

British Association for the Advancement of Science.

3,000. £1 Entrance fee, and 1 on each annual attendance. Mr. A. Silva White, Burlington House, W. The Association meets in Winnipeg, Canada, on 25 August, 1909; in Sheffield, in 1910; and in Portsmouth in 1911.

British and Foreign School Society.

Mr. W. Prydderch Williams, Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, E.C. Subscription, Life Governors, £10. 10s.; Annual Members, £1. Is.

Burgh and Parochial Schoolmasters' Association.

90. Mr. William Young, F.E.I.S., Dalkeith, N.B.

Cambridge Syndicate.

Rev. D. H. S. Cranage, Syndicate Buildings, Cambridge.

Central Welsh Board.

4 St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff. Charity Commission.

Ryder Street, St. James's, S. W. Child Study Society, London.

For the scientific study of the mental and physical condition of children, and also of educational methods, with a view to gaining greater insight into Child Nature and securing more sympathetic and scientific methods of training the young. 10s. 6d., Associate members 5s. Mr. W. J. Durrie Mulford, Parkes Museum, Margaret Street, W.

Church of England High Schools Company.

Miss Robinson, 6 Upper Baker Street, N.W. Church of England Sunday School Institute.

Rev. H. Dawson, M. A., 13 Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street, E.C. Church School Managers and Teachers, General Association of. Rev. W. T. Farmiloe, 18 Gascoyne Road, Victoria Park. Church Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses' Benevolent Institution. Annuities, Orphan Allowances, and Temporary Aid. OfficesThe National Society's House, Great Peter Street, Westminster, S.W.

Church Schools Company. [Not for profit.]

Mr. F. W. Pittman, Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster,
S.W.

Church Schools' Emergency League.

I,200. IOS. Rev. T. E. Cleworth, Middleton Rectory,
Manchester. Mr. G. Lawder-Eaton, Church House, West-

minster.

City and Guilds of London Institute.

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Gresham College, Basinghall Street, E.C. The following are
the Institutes, Colleges, and Departments :--

City and Guilds Central Technical College, Exhibition Road.
City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury, Leonard Street,
E.C.

South London Technical Art School, Kennington Park Road.
Department of Technology, Exhibition Road.
Leather Trades School, Bethnal Green Road.
Civil Service Commission.

College of Preceptors.

Open to all teachers who possess University degrees or certain diplomas. 1,000. I. IS. Mr. C. R. Hodgson, Bloomsbury Square, W.C. Conference of Catholic Colleges.

For heads of secondary schools governed by Bishops or one of the Religious Orders. 40. Rev. R. Eaton, The Oratory, Birmingham. County Councils Association, Education Committee of the.

110. Mr. G. Montagu Harris, Caxton House, Tothill Street, Westminster, S. W. Dante Society.

Luigi Ricci, 38 Conduit Street, W.
Deaf and Dumb, Association for the Oral Instruction of the.

Training College for Teachers of the Deaf and School for Deaf Children. Director, G. Sibley Haycock. II Fitzroy Square, W. Deaf. Society for Training Teachers of the Deaf and for the Diffusion of the "German" (Pure Oral) System.

Training College for Teachers and School for Deaf Girls,
Eaton Rise, Ealing, London, W. Principal and Secretary, Miss

Hewett.

Deaf, Teachers of, National Association, Scoto-Irish Branch. 6s. Dr. J. Welsh, Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Glasgow.

Directors and Secretaries for Education, Association of.

1. Mr. Austin Keen, M.A., Cefn Llys, Cambridge. Domestic Science, Association of Teachers of.

950. 2s. 6d. Mrs. Burton Brown and Miss M. Helen Maxlow,
Wandsworth Technical Institute, S. W.

Drawing Society, The Royal. Incorporated 1902.
King. President, Princess Louise.

Mr. T. R. Ablett, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, S.W.
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Patron, The