SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

EDUCATIONAL DIVISION.

THE object of this Division of the Museum is to aid all classes of the Public, and especially those engaged in teaching, by bringing together all that is new and worthy of attention in apparatus relating to Education, both in its primary and secondary branches, whether of home or foreign production.

In order to economise as much as possible the time of those seeking information, and to facilitate the means of reference, a system of classification and arrangement of the contents has been adopted, so as to bring together, as far as practicable, all objects of a similar nature, and enable those studying any particular subject to compare one example

with another.

It being very desirable that the Collection should at all times represent the existing state of Educational Appliances, every facility will be afforded for the introduction of new Inventions, Books, Diagrams, &c. having reference to Education; and in order to call the attention of the Public more particularly to such new productions, they will be kept separately for a period of eight weeks, previously to being distributed into the various groups of the Collection.

Each object is, or will be, distinctly labelled with its name and uses, the retail price, the name of the donor or exhibitor, and the publisher's address where it may be obtained. The distinctive colours attached to chiefly intended to facilitate the work of the Attendants in keeping the objects in their proper groups.

the labels are

The Museum is open to Students on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, from 10 A.M. till the hours of 3, 4, 5, or 6 P.M., according

to the season, when any book or object may be obtained for reading or examination, by application to the Attendants. On Wednesday evenings the Museum is lighted from 7 till 10, but no book or object can then be removed from the shelves. On these days the admission is limited to students and annual subscribers of 10s. ; and the general Public may be admitted on the payment of sixpence each person.

It is requested that students consulting the Collection will take every care of the valuable publications passing through their hands. Persons seeking further information should apply to Mr. R. Thompson, the Superintendent of the Educational Division of the Museum.

On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays the Museum is open to the Public free at the hours already named, as also on Monday and Tuesday evenings, from 7 till 10. On these days no book or object can be removed from the cases for study.

By order of the Committee of Council on Education.

South Kensington Museum,

18th July 1857.

OF

THE OBJECTS WHICH MAY BE EXHIBITED

IN

THE EDUCATIONAL DIVISION

OF THE

SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

Class 1.

SCHOOL-BUILDINGS AND FITTINGS.

§ I. SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

a. Elevations, Sections, Ground Plans, and Models.

b. Structural Sanitary arrangements connected with sewerage, heating and ventilation, playgrounds, &c.

c. Arrangements for Personal Cleanliness, such as lavatories, baths and bath-rooms, &c.

d. Arrangements for Industrial Education. Workshop, field and garden, plans, &c.

§ II. SCHOOL FITTINGS AND Furniture.

a. Utensils for the Pupil, such as desks, reading stands, forms, &c. b. Fittings for the Teacher, such as black-boards, easels, teachers' desks and tables, &c.

c. Utensils for Cleanliness, such as ink-well fillers and holders, sponge boxes, pen-cleaners, pencil cutters, &c.

Class 2.

GENERAL EDUCATION.

§ I. READING,

a. Alphabet, books, sheets, diagrams, and inventions for teaching the alphabet and simple words.

b. Progressive exercises from simple words to general reading.

c. Elocutional exercises.

d. Systems of teaching reading, and advanced reading books.

§ II. WRITING.

a. Works on the art of teaching writing.

b. Copybooks for the several classes of progress.

c. Copy slips, in the several classes.

d. Diagrams, &c. for collective teaching.

e. Improved pens, penholders, &c.

f. Models of hand with pen, &c.

§ III. GRAMMAR.

a. Orthography, books, diagrams, and inventions for teaching the spelling of words.

b. Parsing, books, diagrams, &c. for teaching children to parse.

c. Treatises on grammar, English.

d. Exercises for dictation.

e. Exercises in composition.

§ IV. ARITHMETIC.

a. Diagrams, mechanical arrangements, and apparatus for teaching elementary arithmetic, such as the abacus-board, &c.

b. Elementary works on number.

c. Treatises and exercises on arithmetic, exchanges, &c.

d. Systems of teaching arithmetic.

e. Systems of book-keeping.

§ V. MATHEMATICS.

a. Pure (elementary). Works on algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, and facilities for teaching these subjects.

b. Pure (advanced). Works on calculi, Newton's Principia, conic sections, &c.

c. Applied. Works on mechanics, dynamics, optics, astronomy, &c.

§ VI. FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

a. Ancient. Latin or Greek grammars; exercises in grammar, works for reading, exercises in composition, &c.

b. Modern. French, German, &c. grammars; exercises in grammar, speaking and writing, works for reading, &e.

§ VII. HISTORIES.

a. Diagrams, plates, &c. for teaching.

b. Chronological Tables, and systems of historical mnemonics.

c. Elementary Histories of Separate Nations, such as English and Roman Histories.

d. General Historical Class Books, combining histories of several nations. e. School works on biography.

f. Systems and facilities for teaching history.

§ VIII. SCIENCE OF TEACHING.

a. Methods and systems of teaching.

b. Object lessons, &c.

c. Aids to memory, &c.

Class 3.

DRAWING AND FINE ART.

§ I. MATERIALS.

a. For Drawing, such as papers, pencils, chalks, pins, and fasteners, &c.

b. For Painting, such as canvass, millboards, pigments, &c.

c. For Modelling and Carving, such as clay, wax, stone, wood, &c.

d. For Engraving, steel and copper plates, blocks, lithographic stone, &c.

§ II. IMPLEMENTS.

a. For Drawing, such as mathematical instruments, &c.

b. For Painting, such as brushes, easels, &c.

c. For Modelling, modelling tools.

d. For Engraving, gravers, &c.