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THE subject of Science Teaching in our elementary schools having been ably brought forward by Mr. Henry Ullyett in a recent number of your Journal, and the scientific instruction under the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, having been at various times the subject of consideration in it, I venture to ask for a short space in your columns in order to submit the following proposition for the consideration of your readers, many of whom, have, probably, special opportunities of coming to a correct judgment on the point. The question I wish solved is this: Is the spread of scientific education, under the auspices of the Science and Art Department, likely to be best promoted by the whole of the Department's assistance to any one town being dispensed by a single committee, by whom a central school shall be provided, of which all other schools established, or that may be established, in various districts of the town, shall be considered only as branches, and be subject to the control of the central committee, on whose books the names of all students would be borne, and through the one secretary of which all the returns and other communications to and from the Department would have to pass?
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A MEMBER OF A SCIENCE COMMITTEE. Science Teaching for the People. Nature 3, 369 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003369b0
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