Abstract
IN this volume Mr. Robins has collected together a series of communications which have appeared at various times in the Jourizai of the Society of Arts and in the Transaclions of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The republication of these papers coming so soon after the last Report of the Commission on Technical Education is most opportune. We have here, brought as it were to a focus, a mass of detail relative to the planning, construction, and mode of equipment of the most note-worthy schools of science of Europe. To the teacher of applied science, and especially also to the many bodies of public-spirited men who are engaged both in London and in our midland and northern towns in the erection of buildings for applied science and art instruction, the work must be in the highest degree valuable. The mere collection of the facts themselves could not fail to prove of the greatest service to the cause of technical education in this country; but when the facts are, as it happens, arranged, co-ordinated, and criticised by one who has himself had no inconsiderable experience in designing buildings of this class, the collection becomes simply indispensable.
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THORPE, T. Science Schools at Home and Abroad . Nature 33, 491–493 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033491a0
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