What is needed evidently here in Shanghai is an interchange between the schools both of science teachers and of apparatus, capable of illustrating their lectures. One hears of general geography taught teachers who have never left China, or the geography of China taught by an English teacher newly arrived om home. In one's childhood, in England, much living geography of foreign lands (the effect of which may largely be seen in ow own pre sence to-day so many degrees east of Greenwich) was taught us by missionary—lecturers,—sometimes even at school. Such' lecturers are far more inspiring, and they fre quently are able to produce maps and curios not possessed by every school.
Surely it would be possible to arrange a sort of Circulating Library of Apparatus; a fine balance is an expensive thing, and yet how 1 to teach boys to calculate milligrammes without any idea, say, of how many milligrammes are represented by a teaspoonful of salt.
biological models are also. expensive, and each model only sufficer in choels for a very few lectures a year—yet many a person deaf for life would have been in possession of all his senses had his mother, nurse, or the teacher in charge of his boarding-school, had any idea of the structure of the auditory montus and the middle ear.
Health in the Schoolroom.
The interesting papers so recently read by Dr. Stanley and Dr. Mabel Poulter at the Medical Conference and by Dr. Peter and the women physicians Dr, Love and Dr. Alsop at the Educational Conference, all emphasize the importance of preventive medicine, and the possibility of spreading disease (especially consumption) in schools, and of an education commencing even in the lowest forms of primary schools which shall fit everyone to take his her part in' the fight against The first thing is to have a al Inspector of Schools, whose shall be not only to inspect sport on the children and the Vat te examines and sane. te far tees ai beagle ovtions of ahd ons.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.