REPORT OF MR. HINTON.
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In front of the Imperial Palace, the Museums of Science and Art are in course of erection, and will be immense structures, if the foundations are any guide to an idea of their proposed size. The fact that these buildings have been commenced indicates that the judgment of the leading men and of the Parliament of the Austrian Empire is still favorably inclined toward this method of fostering and cultivating public taste. They ought to be able to judge well of its effect, having had so long an experience with the galleries already in operation.
The following is a concise summary, from the official catalogue, of the facilities for technical education provided by the Austrian Government for its people. It does not include the Art and Industrial Museum or School, or the galleries and collections above enumerated.
“ In Austria proper there are 45 Superior Schools and Academies for scientific instruction in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, the cultivation of the vine and the silk-worm, and veterinary surgery, also of mining, navigation and commerce; with seven Polytechnic Schools, in all having 6,000 pupils and 426 professors and teachers. These schools are in part sustained by the Imperial Government, and are under the general direction of the minister charged with educational matters.
“Hungary has 13 similar schools, with 116 teachers and 1,311
Pupils.
Bohemia has an extended system of industrial instruction, more diffuse than in other parts of the empire.
“ What are termed ‘ burgher schools,’ answering to our secondary 0r grammar schools, have special courses, designed for mechanical a nd commercial training.
“Besides, there are, throughout the Austrian provinces, many Workman and apprentice schools, usually teaching some special hade. In Vienna and Prague there are a number of these. In latter city, there is one whose course includes the technical sciences, practical weaving, linear and free-hand, machine and constructive drawing, lectures on machinery, practical chemistry and Modelling. These are classes for machinists, building trades, Weavers, dyers, industrial artisans—as goldsmiths, jewellers, por- Ce lain makers, etc.”
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