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THE International Conference on Education in connection with the International Health Exhibition will be opened on Monday, August 4, at 11 a.m., and will continue throughout the week. The arrangements as yet are not quite complete, but it is announced that the following papers, among others, will be read:—(1) Conditions of Healthy Education:—On the structure, fitting, and equipments of a school, by the Rev. Canon Holland, Canterbury, and Rev. E. F. M. MacCarthy, King Edward's School, Birmingham; on gymnastics and other physical exercises, by Captain Burney, R.N., Royal Hospital School, Green wich, and H. J. Wilson, J.P., Sheffield; on the right apportionment of time to different subjects of instruction in schools of various classes, by H. W. Eve, University College School, London. (2) Infant Training and Teaching:—What Fröbel did for young children, by Miss Manning; on the relations of the Kindergarten to the various industries of a country, by Fräulein E. Heerwart; on the main work to be accomplished by Kindergartens for the people, and on the methods of training teachers in such institutions, by Madame Schrader, Berlin. (3) Technical Teaching—(a) Science, (b) Art, (c) Handicrafts, (d) Agriculture, (e) Domestic Economy:—On the methods of teaching the different branches of physical and of natural science, by Henry E. Armstrong, Ph.D., F.R.S.; the teaching of science in public elementary schools, by W. J. Harrison, Birmingham; science teaching in training colleges, by H. A. Reatchlous, Westminster Training College; on the teaching of drawing and colouring as a preparation for designing and decorative work, by John Sparkes, Science and Art Department, A. F. Brophy, Finsbury Technical College, and T. R. Ablett, London School Board; on technical teaching, by Prof. Garnett, University College, Nottingham, and E. M. Dixon, Allen Glen Institute, Glasgow; on technical teaching in Board schools, by J. F. Moss, Sheffield School Board; on manual training schools, by Prof. Woodward, St. Louis, U.S.; (d) the teaching of agricultural science in elementary, in intermediate, and higher schools, in evening science classes, in special colleges, and in the Universities, methods of teaching, &c., by the Rev. J. M'Clellan, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, J. Wrightson, Wiltshire Agricultural College, and others; on school farms and farm schools, by H. M. Jenkins, Royal Agricultural Society; on methods of teaching cookery in schools, by Miss Fanny Calder, Hon. Sec. Northern Union of Schools of Cookery. (4) Teaching of Music in Schools. (5) Museums, Libraries, and other Subsidiary Aids to Instruction in Connection with Schools:—On school museums, by Dr. Jex Blake, Rugby. (6) Training of Teachers:—By G. B. Davis, Birmingham, and C. Mansford, Wesleyan Training College, Westminster; on some of the differences which exist between the training, position, and duties of elementary teachers in Great Britain and on the Continent, by the Rev. Canon Cromwell, St. Mark's College, Chelsea; Universities and their relations to the training of teachers, by the Rev. R. H. Quick, Sedbergh; professorships and lectureships on education, by Prof. S. Laurie, University of Edinburgh, and Prof. J. M. D. Meiklejohn, St. Andrew's University; on diplomas and certificates and the registration of teachers, by F. Storr; on training colleges in Scotland, by the Rev. J.Morrison, D.D., Glasgow. (7) Inspection and Examination of Schools:—(a) By the State, by W. Kennedy, Glasgow; (b) by the Universities-on the University local examinations, by the Rev. G. F. Browne, B.D.; on the University extension movement, by Albert J. Grey, M.P., and E. T. Cook; by other public bodies,by the Rev. H. L. Thompson, Iron Acton. (8) Organisation of Elementary Education:—By Sir U. Kay Shuttleworth, Bart., and T. E. Heller; on the English system of elementary education—oits growth and present condition, by the Rev. H. F. Roe, Sherborne. (9) Organisation of Intermediate and Higher Education:—On the requirements of a truly national system of highereducation and the proper relation of the old Universities to sucha system, by R. D. Roberts, Clare College, Cambridge; on thecomparative advantages and disadvantages of arranging thecourse of study in the various school classes on lines of subjectsappointed for local University or other general examinations, bythe Rev. R. B. Poole, Bedford Modern School; on the advantages and disadvantages of providing for intermediate and highereducation by means of a rate, as is done in the case of elementaryeducation, by the Rev. Canon Daniel, and Hpn. E. Lyulph Stanley, M. P.; on the organisation of higher education forgirls, by Miss Beale, Cheltenham; on the curriculum of a girls' high school, by Mrs. Bryant, B.Sc. (10) Organisation of University Education:—On the proper relation between the teachingand examining bodies in a University, by Sir George Young,Bart.; on scientific teaching in a University, by Prof. Fleeming Jenkin; on the University education of women, by Mrs. H. Sidgwick; on the relation of a University to the colleges, by G. W. Hemming; on the relation of provincial colleges to aUniversity, by E. Johnson, Nottingham; on the duties of the Universities to our Indian Empire, by Prof. Monier Williams.