11 Elyot-Bacon-Milton-Ratich-Comenius-Hoole-Hartlib-Petty-Cowley,.. 25 Locke-Adam Smith-Anderson-Birkbeck-Brougham-Spencer-Russell,.... 30 2. Associated Efforts-Organized-Incorporated-Subsidized,.. Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce,... Royal Society-Royal Institution-Central and Provincial,......... Societies to advance Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Mineralogy, Zoology, &c.,... 37 Royal Galleries-Royal Academy-British Museum-National Gallery,.... Schools of Design-Department of Practical Art-Department of Science,. Science Department-Regulations of 1869, Whitworth's Scholarships, and Exhibitions in Aid of Mechanical Science,.... II. SPECIAL INSTRUCTION IN GREAT BRITAIN-Continued,.. 3. Scotland-Royal Institution-Industrial Museum,..... Edinburgh-Watt Institution and School of Arts, 4. Ireland-Science and Art,........ Dublin-Royal College of Science,.. Royal Society-Industrial Museum,.. 5. Scientific Instruction in Literary Institutions-Old and New,. Agriculture-Engineering and Mechanical Science-Veterinary Science,....... 141 Modern Schools, of Natural Science, Mathematics, and Living Languages,. England-Royal Agricultural School at Cirencester,. Veterinary College near London,.... Scotland-Professorship and Degree in Edinburgh University,. XI. STATE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND,. INSTRUCTIO A prominent defect, sec professional training of tea lic instruction in 1836, as and the leading German S and observation, was the a ing drawing, geometry, p sciences generally, with s tries, to commerce, loco gineering and civil constru and practical chemists a the Rensselaer School at the public service) of the ious men, who educated t many failures), and from Public attention in C dress prepared in 1837, 1838, and subsequently reform, in different parts stitutions referred to in France, with the Special S and mines; the Conserv ums of machines and im the Agricultural Course a the Agricultural Institu ony; the commercial a the architectural lecture incipient steps in the sa land, in a document fir Report as Secretary of t for Connecticut for 1839 missioner of Public Sch the volume entitled Nati tional treatises issued necticut. In 1852, Samuel Colt the Colt Revolving Fir Evening Classes of elementary instruction for young persons in his employment whose school education had been neglected, and of instruction in drawing, chemistry and mechanics for such of his adult workmen as chose to avail themselves of it. In 1854, his plan was expanded into a regularly organized School of Mechanics and Engineering. As the resources from which he intended to endow it accumulated, he included courses of practical agriculture, horticulture and landscape gardening; and finally, on the breaking out of the war, he signified his purpose to alternate the practical work of the shop and the field with military drill. The institution thus projected and expanded was a comprehensive Polytechnic School-which would at once supply through its evening classes the deficient elementary schooling of his own workmen, meet the wants of technical instruction in any occupation in the community in which he lived, and offer a thorough scientific basis for the practical training of the agriculturist, the architect, the engineer, the machinist, the designer, the manufacturer, the miner and metallurgist, as well as of the candidate for any other of the leading industries of the country. In the inception and development of his plan, he was pleased to consult me; and in 1854 signified his desire to name me in the instrument by which he should create and endow the trust, with a request that I would obtain full and reliable accounts of all establishments at home or abroad, which had any feature in common with the school which he contemplated, and which it was his purpose to endow by will beyond any literary institution in New England; and to be prepared to report a plan, when called on. In pursuance of this request, and of studies already widely extended in the field of scientific and technical instruction, a large portion of the material for the chapters and special sections which compose this volume, were collected, and to some extent prepared for publication and printed in the American Journal of Education, at the time of Col. Colt's death in 1862, when it was found that his original purpose to endow by will such an institution had been revoked by a later codicil. In 1863, at the request of Mrs. Colt, the work of collection and preparation was resumed, and a portion relating to Military Schools and Education was published in advance of the completion of the Report, which was intended to be a complete survey of Institutions for Special Instruction in the Sciences and Arts in different countries, to aid in the development of a Plan for a Polytechnic School, in the city of Hartford, Conn. Her object was simply to enable me to complete my survey of the whole field of Special Instruction; and was abandoned by her on the partial destruction of the Armory Buildings by fire in 1865. Since that date the work has been prosecuted to its present state of completion as rapidly as was consistent with other engagements. HENRY BARNARD Population and National Industr System and Statistics of Public I Progressive Development of the Technical und Special Schools.. 3. Polytechnic Institutions,... Subjects taught and (2.) Intermediate Schoo (2.) Intermediate Schoo |