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THE annual Report of the Department of Science and Art furnishes much information on the progress made in elementary scientific instruction year by year; and the following, facts, derived from the Report just published, shows the vast extent of the Department's operations during 1898. The number of students under instruction in schools eligible for the Department's grants in that year was 158,370. These students were distributed among 11,723 classes in 2023 different schools. Scotch schools and students are not included in these figures, the Scotch Education Department having taken over the administration of grants for science and art instruction. Even more satisfactory than the increase of the number of pupils receiving science instruction is the fact that in 1898 there were 159 Schools of Science—that is, schools following an organised course of scientific instruction—in which practical work forms an essential part. The number of students in these schools was 21,193. This is a considerable increase on the preceding year, when the number of Schools of Science was 143, with 18,142 students.
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Science Schools and Classes1. Nature 60, 381–382 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060381a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/060381a0