(a) Do you make any special efforts to develop and utilise the hearing power of your semi-deaf pupils ?
(b) I shall be glad of any details regarding the methods of instruction employed in such cases and the results.
(c) Do you use instrumental aids, such as hearing tubes or trumpets, audiphones, dentaphones, &c.?
(d) What is your opinion concerning the relative merits of such apparatus?

(e) Do you know of any facts indicating improvement of hearing power at or about the age of puberty ?

GENERAL REMARKS.

1. AMERICAN ASYLUM.

(a) No systematic efforts. (k) I cannot tell.-JOB WILLIAMS, Principal.

2. NEW YORK INSTITUTION.

J. L. Peet, Principal. No reply received to circular letter to date, June 2, 1888.

3. PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION.

(a) To a limited extent. (c) We use hearing-tubes. (d) All have their value. (e) I have no information upon this point. (i) About 10. (j) None of them. (k) The majority say they can hear a bell ring.-A. L. E. CROUTER, Principal.

4. KENTUCKY INSTITUTION.

2 26 (a) In cases where hearing promises to prove of use as a means of instruction-yes. (c) Yes. (d) In the majority of cases of little practical value. Trumpet gives most satisfactory results. (e) On the contrary, since 1880 we have had 8 pupils whose deafness came upon them about this period, in most cases gradually. (k) 57 older pupils tested-26 heard.-W. K. ARGO, Superintendent.

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5. OHIO INSTITUTION.

Just now I am very full of work arranging for examinations and the close of school. I will
endeavour to have the work done for you soon.-AMASA PRATT, Superintendent.
No further reply received to date, June 2, 1888.

6. VIRGINIA INSTITUTION.

(a) Very little. (c) We have one of the Currier double tubes, which we use sometimesbut not continually with any pupil. (d) All the dentaphones, so called, that I have seen I regard as humbugs. Currier's tube is the best piece of apparatus that I know. (e) I do not. Edward Green, who entered here as a pupil in 1865 and was discharged in 1872, is said to have recovered his hearing since leaving. He is ranked in the record as a "semi-mute," who lost his hearing at two years of age by scarlet fever. (h) 80 I should say, although some of this 80 have been reported as going deaf at any age less than two years.-THOMAS A. DOYLE, Principal.

7. INDIANA INSTITUTION.

(a) To a limited extent-limited by lack of time. (c) Use hearing-tubes. (d) Not of much use. (e) None.-WM. GLENN, Superintendent.

8. TENNESSEE SCHOOL.

(a) We do. (b) By putting them in the "articulation" or "oral" class, believing that training of this kind teaches children to discriminate between the sounds of different words, or that such training improves the hearing-which we regard as one and the same thing-in results. (c) We have used tubes, trumpets, and dentaphones. (d) They are helps in some cases. (e) No; unless the fact that a larger per cent. of our pupils who have reached that age are semi-deaf than is found among the pupils under that age. (g) 3 so reported; but information as to others is not reliable. (h) About one-third born deaf, but above remark applies in this case. (k) 25 per cent.-THOS. L. MOSES, Principal.

9. NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTION.

(a) No. (c) We use no instrumental aids. (e) None. (h) "About 50" born deaf.W. J. YOUNG, Principal.

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(a) No. (e) No, speaking after 26 years' work in the Georgia Institution. (f) Of 300 pupils (admitted 1867 to 1888) 34 were semi-deaf. (h) 32 born deaf out of a total of 57.-W. O. CONNOR, Principal.