upon the memory as simple inspection cannot do. It would therefore be well if teachers elsewhere were to give this serious consideration. The relative standing of the schools in this subject may be stated as follows:—

Uniformity of instruction is desirable, particularly in the matter of collecting and preserving specimens, and the examiner therefore recommends that for the future, teachers be requested to base their instruction in this respect upon "A guide to the collection and preservation of botanical specimens," by D. P. Penhallow, a little work now being published with a view to meet this particular want. It is also recommended (1) that each pupil collect and properly preserve fifty specimens of plants. These should be native plants. Those obtained from gardens will not be counted; (2) that each teacher, in forwarding the results of the examinations to the examiner at Montreal, also send a properly mounted botanical specimen from the collection of each pupil; (3) that the teacher should, at the same time, forward a statement of the number and character of the plants

collected by each pupil, in accordance with blank forms to be supplied. The returns thus obtained will be valued on the basis of 50 specimens, and the marks thus obtained will be reckoned in the total marks of the subject.

Drawing. In the Boys' High School, Montreal, there is a decided improvement over the work of former years, both in geometrical and freehand drawing. All the candidates (8) have passed. In the Girls' High School, Montreal, there is an improvement in geometrical drawing. The freehand is not quite as well done as in former years, and is much behind the work of the Boys' School. All the candidates (16) have passed, though (7) were very weak in freehand drawing. All the candidates (12) from St. John, N.B., have passed in geometrical drawing, and the school has taken the highest average marks in this subject. No answers were received in freehand drawing. Out of the 43 candidates from the remaining schools in this Province, 10 have obtained one-third of the marks in geometrical, 14 in freehand drawing, and 12 on the paper as a whole. The percentage of failures is, therefore, about the same as last year. The number of successful candidates in freehand drawing would have been very much larger but for the circumstance that in at least three of the centres the candidates used instruments in their drawing. Distinct instructions were given, both to the candidates and to the deputy-examiners, that the use of instruments would not be allowed, and no marks have been given for this portion of the work in the cases referred to. The deputy-examiners, in four out of the eight centres to which models were sent, failed to place the models in accordance with instructions. It has, in these cases, been impossible to mark correctly for the freehand drawing. Although falling short of their duty in this respect, several of the gentlemen referred to have exceeded what was required of them in another way, namely, in providing a copy where the question was intended for memory-work. These facts, together with other circumstances connected with the examinations, show clearly that the work in this subject at some of the local centres in this Province has been very loosely conducted.

Hygiene and Physiology. The papers on hygiene and physiology may be said on the whole to show progress and a useful elementary knowledge of the subject on the part of the greater number of the candidates, and the examiners think that good must result from the teaching given. This would be much aided if the schools could be furnished with plastic models or good wall-diagrams of human physiology.

Montreal High School (Girls').

Misses Symmers and Smith's School, Montreal..
Quebec High School

PASSED. FAILED.

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In addition 11, who were already Associates in Arts, were examined a second time, 1 from Coaticook, 1 from Granby, 4 from Huntingdon, 4 from Inverness, and 1 from Knowlton.

CHAS. E. MOYSE.

Montreal, June 27th, 1891.

(For the Secretary.)

REPORT ON THE JUNE EXAMINATIONS, 1891. Every succeeding year's experience seems to prove the wisdom of holding these annual examinations, as an averaging test of the work done in the respective grades, outside of the oral test at the date of the Inspector's visit; and now that the routine of conducting them has become familiar to pupils, teachers and commissioners, it only remains for the latter, acting in accordance with the suggestion of the Protestant Committee on the late decision of the University School Examination Board, to arrange for the permanence of the deputyexaminers, as far as that is possible. The University Board has decided that no papers shall be sent to a school where no provision has been made for the remuneration of the deputyexaminers. The gentlemen who this year, as in former years, have given of their time gratuitously for the immediate super

vision of these examinations, are deserving of the highest praise; yet the difficulty met with in some places, in securing properly qualified persons for the duty, shows more and more the necessity of having permanently appointed deputyexaminers, as in the examination for teachers' diplomas.

To reduce the chance of intercommunication between pupils during the examination, I would recommend that a suggestion of Prof. Chandler should be carried out; namely, that no two pupils of the same grade should be allowed to sit together, and that a plan of the examination-room, indicating the relative position of all the pupils, individually named on the plan, should be sent in with the other returns.

This year, I took special pains in giving instructions to the teachers and the deputy-examiners, and, but for a serious mistake made by the Express Company in the case of one school, everything passed off satisfactorily. For the information of the teachers who may be anxious to adopt the routine of these annual examinations at the periodical examinations conducted by themselves during the year, I have thought it prudent to insert here the substance of these instructions. The following of such instructions, on all occasions, will be in itself a training to the pupils, and will lessen the chances of making mistakes in the routine of the annual examination, which are sometimes fatal, even when the pupils are fairly well prepared to pass. These instructions are :

(1). The grade of the pupil, the subject, the name of the school and the name of the pupil should always be written at the head of the paper.

(2). Only the proper size of paper should be used-quartersheet of foolscap, with a margin down the left-hand side of about an inch wide.

(3). The number of the question selected for answering should be marked in the margin.

(4). Answers should be separated by missing two lines, or, what is better, each answer should be written on a separate quartersheet, where there is not likely to be a serious waste of paper.

(5). The writing should be on one side of the paper only, while the sheets should be fastened together at the upper lefthand corner. There should be no loose sheets.

(6). The papers should be written in the neatest hand-writing, the maps drawn in pencil outline, the drawings sketched on proper drawing-paper, the geometrical figures projected with pencil not less than an inch in dimensions, and the lines used in arithmetic drawn with a straight edge.