Observations of Children' by the students, and ‘Experiments in Teaching' must have furnished those teachers, who have taken the opportunity of studying them, with much information and new fields of thought. A portrait of Miss E. P. Hughes,' the well-known Principal of the Training College, hangs between Miss Benson 2 and Miss Bishop.

Schools.-The North London Collegiate School for Girls.3-Foremost amongst secondary schools must come the North London, founded in 1850 by Miss Frances Mary Buss, the great pioneer of this branch of education. Her portrait in oils by Ida S. Perrin hangs amongst the other educators, and a large framed photograph forms the centre around which are grouped exhibits from the school which is a lasting memorial of her life-work. Near at hand is an excellent but very small photograph of Mrs. Bryant,5 the present head mistress. A pen-and-ink sketch of Clothworkers' Hall points to the active interest taken by that Company in this school. A useful diagram shows the development of the connection between the Universities and the North London School, from the experimental opening of the Cambridge Local Examinations to the present time. Two history charts, the work of the pupils, are also good, one being commended by the Royal Drawing Society. A case in front of the exhibit contains a school album from 1850-73, with photographs (some sadly faded) and early records of the school; biological diagrams; botanical specimens, and paper models.

Association of Head Mistresses.-A photographic group of this important body, taken at Uppingham

1887, hangs close by. It is interesting as containing portraits of Mr. Thring, Miss Buss, Miss Beale, Miss A. J. Cooper (by whom it was lent), and others. A portrait in chalks of Miss A. J. Cooper comes from the Edgbaston High School.

Cheltenham College School.-Seeing the reputation for educational charts and diagrams which Cheltenham has established for itself, it is obvious that an exhibit from this school would be incomplete without some of these. We therefore find three occupying the space, two different methods of illustration being employed. The first is a chart of the Christian Era, showing the chief contemporary events of the nineteen centuries: each century is represented by 100 small squares, and each is coloured according to the periods of English history; events are represented by symbols, which are explained in a key attached. The other two are pictorial charts of the Queen's reign, one showing the scientific discoveries and progress of the sixty years (see facsimile, p. 12), the second the chief events other than scientific; each fact is represented by cleverly drawn pen-and-ink miniatures, and is further explained by a key (see facsimile, p. 14).

The Girls' Public Day School Company.2-The exhibit from the Company's High Schools gives a splendid object lesson of what can be done by organisation, for secondary teaching as well as other things. In the selection of objects from the various schools the aim seems to have been rather to represent as fully as possible the general scope of the work, and the methods employed in teaching the various branches of the school course, than to exhibit specimens of the highest standard attained by individual pupils. To give an 1 Handbook, p. 114. 2 Ibid. p. 109.

adequate description of the work, which occupies four cases and a very large amount of wall space, is quite impossible, and it must suffice to mention some of the most striking objects; but the ability and high average of work displayed, as well as the continuity of arrangement, are very marked. Mention should here be made of the excellent portrait, by J. J. Shannon, of Miss H. M. Jones,' Head Mistress of the Notting Hill High School, which hangs with the other oil paintings in the centre panel. There are also portraits of the late Lady Stanley of Alderley, who took such an active interest in the work of this Company, and of the late Miss Benson (Mrs. McDowall), first Head Mistress of the Oxford High School.

The Wimbledon High School has furnished one large case with apparatus illustrating some of the experiments in physics and chemistry, showing the Armstrong method of teaching science, now adopted in many of the Company's schools. By this method children are taught to deduce facts for themselves from 2 Ibid. p. 66.

1 Handbook, p. 113.

KEY TO CHART SHOWING PROGRESS IN SCIENCE DURING THE QUEEN'S REIGN.

1837. First Telegraph. 1839. Photography, Daguerre.

1841. Sewing Machine. 1842. Nasmyths Steam Hammer. 1843. Ross's Telescope. 1848. Planet Neptune discovered-Anæsthetics.

1849. Joule's Mechanical Equivalent of Heat,'

1851. The Great Exhibition. 1852. Ophthalmoscope. 1854. Armstrong Gun. 1856. Tyndall's Investigation of Glaciers. 1857. Atlantic Cable from Valencia to Newfoundland. 1858. The Great Eastern. 1859. Origin of Species,' Darwin -Brunel's Death.

1860. Stellar Spectroscopy, Huggins. 1861. Aeronautic Experiments. 1964. Clifton Suspension Bridge. 1865. Lister, Antiseptic Treatment.

1867. Death of Faraday. 1868. Suez Canal.

1870. Torpedo. 1871. Huxley, Anatomy of Vertebrates.' 1872. Daily Weather Chart first begun. 1876. Challenger at Portsmouth-Bell's Telephone. 1878, Electric Light on the Embankment.

1879. Phonograph.

1880. Pasteur's Cure of Hydrophobia. 1883. Sir W. Siemens' Steel Process. 1885. Maxim Gun. 1888. Stellar Photography, Sir Isaac Roberts. 1889. Bicycles-The Pneumatic Tyre.

1890. Forth Bridge. 1892. Tower Bridge. 1894. Argon by Lord Rayleigh and Professor Ramsay. 1895. Röntgen Rays. 1896. Lord Kelvin's Jubilee.