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§ III. EXAMPLES FOR STUDY IN DRAWING.

a By Instruments, such as examples in practical geometry, mechanical and perspective drawing.

b. From the Flat, outline and shaded examples, both elementary and

advanced.

c. From the Round, such as geometrical solids, casts, &c.

d. From Nature, such as fruits, flowers, &c.

§ IV. EXAMPLES for PaintING. 4. From the Flat, in monochrome and colour. b. From Nature, landscapes, flowers, fruits, &c.

§ V. EXAMPLES FOR MODELLING.

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a. Instruction books for each instrument.

b. Scales, exercises, and studies.

c. Complete schools.

d. Various forms of composition, viz., sonatas, rondas, &c.

§ II. THEOREtical.

a. Elementary works on the formation of chords, modulation, &c.

b. Works on fugue and counterpoint.

§ III. INSTRUMENTS, DIAGRAMS, &c.

a. Instruments used in teaching, viz., the tuning-fork, pitch-pipe, and

metronome.

b. Diagrams, music boards, &c. for collective teaching.

c. Plates, &c. illustrating the vocal organs, &c.

d. Plates and models of musical instruments.

e. Musical instruments adapted to schools.

Class 5.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

§ I. VENTILATION AND WARMING.

a. Modes of ventilating and warming the houses of the poor.

§ II. COOKERY.

a. Modes of improving the cookery and alimentation of the poor.

§ III. DOMESTIC WORK.

a. Needlework, Lace-making, Embroidery, and similar household occupations.

§ IV. ORNAMENTATION.

a. Modes of improving the State of Ornament as displayed in houses for the poor.

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§ III. NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY (for Navigation Schools.) a. Sextants and Quadrants, Reflecting and Repeating Circles, Dip Sectors, &c.

§ IV. SURVEY AIDS.

a. Topographical Instruments, such as theodolites, levelling apparatus, pocket-sextants, compasses, illustrations, diagrams, &c.

b. Hydrographical Instruments, such as sounding-machines, patent logs,

&c.

§ V. PHYSICAL Geography.

a. The Distribution of Land and Water. Illustrations of mountains, oceans, lakes, and rivers.

b. Illustrations of Volcanic Phenomena.

c. Illustrations of Meteorological Phenomena and Climate.

d. Geographical distribution of Minerals, Plants, and Animals.

e. Productive Industry of different portions of the Globe, special objects.

Class 7.

NATURAL HISTORY.

§ I. GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

a. Illustrations of Fossils, and Minerals, by Typical Collections.

b. Illustrations of Geological Formations, by maps, sections, models, and diagrams.

c. Illustrations of Crystalline Forms, by models, and diagrams of crystals.

§ II. BOTANY.

a. Typical Collections, as models of plants, or collections of dried plants, showing their classification or structure.

b. Diagrams, Plates, &c., to illustrate classification or structure.

c. Collections showing the use to which plants are applied, as food, medicine, or for industrial purposes.

§ III. ZOOLOGY.

a. Typical Collections of Animals, illustrative of classification and struc

ture.

b. Diagrams and Plates, illustrating classification and structure.

c. Applied Collections, on a small scale, showing the uses to which animal matter is applied in industry.

§ IV. ETHNOGRAPHY.

a. Models, Diagrams, or Illustrations, showing different varieties of the human race.

Class 8.
CHEMISTRY.

a. Pneumatic Chemistry, apparatus such as pneumatic troughs, gas jars, gasometers, &c.

b. Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies. Elementary bodies and their compounds, and apparatus for illustrating their properties by experiment. c. Chemistry of Organic Bodies.

d. Apparatus for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, such as balances, graduated instruments, &c.

Class 9.

PHYSICS.

§ I. SOUND.

a. Apparatus for teaching the Principles of Acoustics. The general nature of sound; the laws of vibration of strings, rods, pipes, plates, and bells; the transmission of sounds by various substances; composition of vibrations, &c.

b. Models and Diagrams, to explain the construction and principles of musical instruments.

c. Diagrams and Models of the organs of voice and hearing.

§ II. LIGHT.

a. Simple Apparatus for showing the Reflection, Refraction, and Polarisation of Light, such as plane and curved mirrors, prisms, lenses, polariscopes, &c.

b. Optical Instruments, such as telescopes, microscopes, cameras, &c. c. Instruments for showing the chemical effects of light, such as cheap forms of photographic apparatus.

d. Diagrams and Models of the organs of vision, and other matters connected with optics.

§ III. HEAT.

a. Conduction. Apparatus for showing the conducting powers of different substances.

b. Dilatation. Expansion of solids, liquids, and gases; apparatus illustrating the principles of compensation in chronometers, pendulums, &c.

e. Evaporation. Apparatus to illustrate the principles of evaporation, of latent and specific heat, boiling points under different pressures, spheroidal state, model steam engines, cyrophorus, water hammers, hygrometers, &c.

d. Reflection, Radiation, and Absorption. Mirrors, radiating canisters, &c. e. Measurement of Heat. Thermometers, pyrometers, &c.

§ IV. ELECTRICITY.

A.-Frictional Electricity.

a. Apparatus to show the fundamental phenomena of Frictional Electricity, such as glass and wax rods with their rubbers, electroscopes, and electrometers.

b. Electrical Machines in their various forms, the electrophorus, &c. c. Apparatus, illustrating the induction of electricity, including condensers, Franklin's plates, Leyden jars, &c.

d. Pieces of Apparatus used with electric machines, illustrating electric attractions and repulsions, electric light in rarefied air, &c.

e. Atmospheric Electricity, showing the application of the laws of electricity to natural phenomena.

B.-Voltaic and Thermo-Electricity.

a. Various forms of Batteries. Apparatus for showing the heating, luminous, chemical, and magnetical effects of the electric current, applications to the telegraph, bars of antimony and bismuth, thermoelectric piles, &c.

C.-Magnetism.

a. Various forms of Magnets, natural magnets, communication of magnetism to iron and steel, inductive action of the earth, mariner's compass, dipping needle, influence of heat on magnets, &c.

D.-Electro-Magnetism and Magneto-Electricity.

a. Apparatus showing the mutual action of currents and magnets, the action of two currents upon each other, of a current upon itself, the phenomena of induced currents.

Class 10.

MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

§ I. MECHANICS AND MECHANISM.

a. Kinematics. Models to illustrate the communication and modification of motion in machinery, as toothed wheels, cams, cranks, eccentrics, belts, linkwork, ratchets, &c., with methods of changing and adjusting velocities.

b. Curves. Contrivances for drawing mechanical curves, as ellipses, epicycloids, conchoids, parallel motion curves, &c., with models of parallel motions, oval chucks, geometrical chucks, geometrical pens, and the like.

c. Statics. Apparatus and diagrams for showing the parallelogram of forces, the properties of the mechanical powers (i.e. lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, screw, and pullies), the centre of gravity, &c. Apparatus for teaching the general principles of statical equilibrium, the laws of friction and elasticity, strength of materials, &c. &c.

d. Dynamics. Apparatus for measuring the work of mechanical agents and machines, such as steam indicators, dinamometers, and apparatus showing the effect of gravity on falling bodies, as Atwood's machine, and to illustrate pendulums, revolving pendulums, bodies rolling down curves, projectiles, collision, rotation, centrifugal force, &c.; also the principles of escapements in clock-work.

e. Models of simple machines or parts of machines as best exhibit the application of the mechanical powers, or other general principles. f. Actual Construction of Machines. Parts of real machines or models of them to show the forms and arrangements actually employed in the construction of machinery, as specimens of wheels, shafts, plummer blocks, modes of attaching wheels to their axes, bolts and screws of approved shapes, &c.

9. Models of Complete Machines, or of their working parts, for lecturing on processes and manufactures, with sets of specimens of manufacturing processes in their different stages.

h. Prime Movers. Models of windmills, waterwheels of different kinds, turbines, and steam engines.

i. Architectural and Engineering Structures. Apparatus to illustrate the strength and economy of materials used in construction; models to show the principles of framing, of the arch and vault, and other parts of fixed structures, and also to exhibit the disposition and arrangement of buildings.

k. Naval mechanism. Models showing the principles of naval architecture and mechanism, for the use of Navigation Schools.

§ II. HYDROSTATICS.

a. Apparatus showing the transmission of pressure in liquids, such as the hydrostatic paradox, hydrostatic press, bellows, application of pressure to telegraphic purposes, &c.

b. Apparatus showing that liquids maintain their level.

c. Solids immersed in Liquids. Simple instruments for illustrating specific gravity, and for experimentally showing that the volume of the solid is measured by immersion.

§ III. HYDRAULICS.

a. Simple Apparatus showing the efflux of liquids by currents and jets. b. Applications of Water in Motion. Overshot, undershot, and other wheels, Archimedes screw, &c.

c. Machines for raising Water. Various forms of pumps, fire engines, hydraulic rams, siphons, &c.

§ IV. PNEUMATICS.

a. Apparatus showing the compressibility and elasticity of air, such as the flaccid bladder, condensing syringe, cartesian divers, &c.

b. Weight of Air. Barometer tubes, Magdeburg hemispheres, &c. c. Rarefaction and Condensation of Air. Exhausting and condensing syringes, air pumps, with their usual apparatus, air guns, air balloons, diving bells, bellows and blowing machines, revolving fans, ventilating pumps, &c.

Class 11.

APPARATUS FOR TEACHING PERSONS OF DEFICIENT

FACULTIES.

§ I. PERSONS PHYSICALLY DEficient.

A. Appliances for teaching the deaf and dumb.

B. Appliances for teaching the blind.

a. Different systems for teaching the blind to read, illustrated by tangible typography.

b. Contrivances for teaching the blind to write.

c. Contrivances and tools for teaching various trades, such as brush-making, &c.

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