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are conducted by certified and uncertified day-school teachers, and are commonly held in day-school rooms. The subjects taught are as follows :—
1. Practical Plane and Solid Geometry.
2. Machine Construction and Drawing.
3. Building Construction.
4. Naval Architecture and Drawing.
5. Pure Mathematics.
6. Theoretical Mechanics.
7. Applied Mechanics.
8. Acoustics, Light and Heat.
9. Magnetism and Electricity.
10. Inorganic Chemistr}\
11. Organic Chemistry.
12. Geology.
13. Mineralogy.
14. Animal Physiology.
15. Zoology.
16. Vegetable Anatomy and Ph}\siology.
17. Systematic and Economic Botany.
18. Principles of Mining.
^ 19. Metallurgy.
20. Navigation.
21. Nautical Astronomy.
22. Steam.
23. Physical Geography.
'In the Government Tables, every institution in which scientific instruction is given is counted as a school, though the subjects taught and the number of classes in them vary DRich. In some instances a school consists of but one class, 111 which only one subject is taught, while in others there are ten or more classes in different subjects.
The progress of the Science Schools since the passing of the general Science minute, June, 1859 is shown in the following
Table