APPENDIX C.

Statement of the minimum provision of Apparatus required in connection with the Instruction of Small Classes of from four to six Pupils in Experimental Science in Intermediate Schools.

APPARATUS Required for PHYSICAL PART of Course.

1 50 c.c. burette with stand.
1 100 c.c. burette with stand.
1 graduated cylinder, 50 c.c.
1 graduated cylinder, 250 c.c.
6 small flasks.

6 small beakers.

2 doz. test-tubes, 5 ins. by § in. 1 doz. boiling-tubes.

3 lbs. glass tubing assorted (bore 2 to 6 mms.).

2 yds. narrow indiarubber tubing.
3 yds. indiarubber gas-tubing.

3 retort stands with rings.
3 clamps for ditto.

2 pieces wire gauze.

4 lbs.

mercury.

1 pint methylated spirit.

1 pint turpentine.

3 metal pulleys.

In addition, the following (if not already at hand) should be procured locally-Pliers, funnel, silk thread, files, squared paper, dividers, 12-inch rulers, scissors, cardboard, thin indiarubber cord, corks, wires, tin cans, lead shot, wooden blocks, drawing pins, pails, set-squares, protractors, paraffin wax, tin foil, lead bullets, tin plates, saucers.

Note.-The total cost of the above, if only one balance is required (price with case and set of weights about 21. 3s.), should not be more than about 61. It is probable, however, that the School will be already provided with some items in the list, and the cost may be thus diminished. A barometer (price from 27.) is not included above, as the School should be furnished with one for ordinary class purposes. Other useful instruments, e.g., "Hare's Apparatus" and U and W-tubes for balancing columns of liquids, can be easily set up by the teacher or pupils themselves.

The above apparatus is also very well adapted for the instruction of Supplementary Course pupils in Introductory Experimental Science.

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APPARATUS REQUIRED FOR CHEMICAL PART OF COURSE.

Note. The price of the above apparatus will be from 27. 58. to 27. 108.; that of the chemicals about 10s. Where no gas supply is available, a plumber's blast lamp or a "Primus" paraffin stove, costing from 7s. 6d. to 158., should be added for experiments requiring high temperatures.

REPORTS OF HIS MAJESTY'S

CHIEF INSPECTORS.

GENERAL REPORT for the Year 1907 by A. E. SCOUGAL, Esq.,
M.A., His Majesty's Senior Chief Inspector of Schools in
Scotland, on the SCHOOLS in the SOUTHERN DIVISION OF
SCOTLAND.

January 1908.

MY LORDS,

of H.M.I.

I have the honour to present to Your Lordships my fourth Annual Report on the Schools in the Southern Division of Scotland. Since the date of my last Annual Report the following changes Staff have taken place in the Inspection Staff of the Division. On Changes. 25th March, 1907, H.M. Inspector Mr. Barrie gave up the charge of Retirement District No. 2 and retired from the service under the age limit. Mr. Barrie. Mr. Barrie had held office as one of H.M. Inspectors of Schools for thirty-six years. For a short period after his appointment he assisted the late Dr. Charles E. Wilson in the inspection of schools connected with the Free Church of Scotland. After the passing of the Education (Scotland) Act of 1872 he was advanced to the charge of the Dumfries district, which he held for nearly twenty-seven years. In 1899 he was transferred to the charge of the Haddington district, which he held till his retirement. During this long period Mr. Barrie had proved himself an able and efficient officer-sound in judgment, loyal to the Department, fair and considerate in his treatment of managers and teachers. H.M. Inspector Mr. Clark was transferred from the Perthshire district to succeed Mr. Barrie. Until Mr. Clark took up his duties on 17th September, the work of the Haddington district was overtaken by the staff of the Edinburgh district. The vacancy in Perthshire was filled by the transference from the Stirling district of H.M. Inspector Mr. Millar, whose place at Stirling was taken by H.M. Inspector Mr. Fraser, who had been on the general staff of the Division. Mr. Fraser was succeeded by H.M. Inspector Dr. Walter Stewart, who had previously been associated with H.M. Inspector Dr. Macnair in the Science and Art work of the Division; and Mr. James G. Frewin was appointed a Junior Inspector to fill the place vacated by Dr. Stewart. Mr. John Wilson, SubInspector of the Second Class in the Stirling district, was promoted to be a Sub-Inspector of the First Class, and transferred to the Renfrew-Argyll district, to take the place of Mr. Binnie, I.S.O., retired; and Mr. Bell, Sub-Inspector, was moved from the Border

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district to Stirling. The vacancy in the ranks of the Sub-In-
spectors of the Second Class has been filled by the appointment
of Mr. Donald J. Macleod, who has been temporarily posted to the
Edinburgh district; and assistance is in the meantime being given
to H.M. Inspector Mr. Fleming in the Border district by the
Edinburgh staff.

The retirement of Mr. Barrie deprives me of his report; but,
as far as school work is concerned, the report furnished by H.M.
Inspector Mr. Jamieson covers the work seen by him and his
junior colleagues in the Haddington district as well as in the
Edinburgh district.

SCHOOL SUPPLY AND ACCOMMODATION.

In my General Report for last year I enumerated the chief causes which now necessitate an increase or modification of school accommodation. The remarks which I then made are still applicable. Under pressure of the same causes, Managers throughout the Division have shown considerable activity in the enlargement or alteration of buildings and in the erection of new buildings. Edinburgh In the Edinburgh district Mr. Jamieson mentions as the chief improvements in school supply: (1) The opening by the School Board of Edinburgh of the Gilmore Place Public School, which is a very large and handsome building; (2) the institution by the same Board of the Special School for Defective Children at Willowbrae; (3) the reconstruction of Bathgate Academy, which was partially destroyed by fire; (4) the completion by the School Board of Bo'ness and Carriden of the large new school at Grange. The last-mentioned school will do much to solve the difficulties of accommodation and organization with which the Board has long had to contend. Mr. Jamieson also refers to the agreement reached between the School Boards of Edinburgh and of Leith (B.) regarding the education of the children who live near the boundary line between the city and the burgh. This agreement will clear up the difficulty at Granton Public School, which has for some time been acute. As the result of the opening of Gilmore Place Public School, West Fountainbridge Public School, the buildings of which had long been unsatisfactory, has now been closed.

The Roman Catholic Managers of Edinburgh and its vicinity have recently instituted a Higher Grade School and Junior Student Centre, known as the Holy Cross Academy. This new school, which is situated just within the burgh of Leith, is intended to meet the wants of Roman Catholic Higher Grade scholars and Junior Students not only in Edinburgh and Leith but also in the country round. Arrangements have been made for boarding a certain number of pupils. The opening of this school has involved the closing of Edinburgh, Albany Street, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Higher Grade and Elementary School. The latter school, though interesting and well conducted, had long been defective in respect of buildings. In District No. 2 the most important building improvement completed before the end of the session

was the enlargement of Musselburgh Grammar (Higher Grade Public) School.

Mr. Smith.

In the Fifeshire district H.M. Inspector Mr. Smith points out Fifeshire that every class of the population is represented except the shepherd District. and the crofter, and he proceeds to explain the complexity and variety of the problems presented in a study of the necessary school supply. Over the mining belt of Fifeshire the population is increasing rapidly; over the eastern half of that belt in particular it is increasing with great rapidity, and the Boards concerned have difficulty in keeping pace with it. The Wemyss Board, especially, has to cope with an enormous task, and is doing so vigorously. In the manufacturing towns-in Dunfermline, that is, and Kirkcaldy (with Dysart) - progress, though steady, is less rapid. "In Dunfermline," Mr. Smith continues, "the supply is for the moment adequate to the demand; and I may so far digress as to say that in respect, not only of school provision, but of equipment, staff, and general efficiency, the burgh of Dunfermline need fear comparison with no town in Scotland." In Kirkcaldy a large new school has been built this year and a similar school is building at Dysart. In the fishing towns, on the other hand, the population is stationary, while from the purely rural districts it is slowly ebbing away. In these parts, therefore, there has been no need to press for accommodation, except where a building has had to be condemned; but in the improving or equipment and the readjustment of buildings Mr. Smith says that there has been a good deal to do, and that there remains not a little to be done. In the fishing communities the problem is complicated by the unstable condition of the staple industry, which a turn of the trade may send elsewhere. Mr. Smith concludes this section of his report with a list of five new schools built, building, or to be built; of seventeen existing schools to which additions have been made, are making, or are to be made; and of fifteen schools on which improvements have been made, without, however, increasing the accommodation; and he says that minor alterations have been too numerous to mention.

Mr. Flem

After a reference to the settlement of the school building diffi- Border culties at Hawick and Jedburgh, and to the new building at Eye- District mouth in which cookery and laundry are taught, H.M. Inspector ing. Mr. Fleming (Border District) points out that, as the population of his district is stationary or decreasing, the supply of school places may, in general, be regarded as sufficient, but that there is need for considerable expenditure on equipment and on the improvement of buildings. Reconstructions or additions will need to be made not infrequently on account of the changed conditions of the staff. He also urges that the outlay necessary to an adequate development of practical work should be courageously faced. In his district there are many schools in which the fittings, such as desks, need to be renewed; and he considers that, with regard to heating and ventilation, few of his schools entirely satisfy