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4. The order for slides should be given to Messrs. Newton as early as possible, in order that the sets might be ready in time.

5. When sending out the unbound copies of the lectures to the six centres, each of them should be carefully inscribed Proof only, private, not for publication— this with reference to the American copyright.

Yours, &c.,

II. J. MACKINDER.

Enclosure in No. 34.

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duly laid before the Elementary Education Sub-Committee at a recent meeting, when I was instructed to inform you that the Sub-Committee do not see their way to recommend the Education Committee to entertain the offer contained in your communication. I am to explain that we already have a large and varied selection of lantern slides which are kept at this office, and which are loaned to the schools from time to time.

Professor M. E. Sadler, M.A., LL.D.,

Eastwood,

Weybridge.

Yours, &c.,

JNO. ARTHUR PALMER,

Secretary of Education.

PUBLIC RECORD

OFFICE

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Reference :-

wwimmin C.O. 885

H. J. M.'s dates at present open, 25th August, 1910.

The only consecutive week of six days, Monday, 26th September, to Saturday,

1st October. This would be very convenient to me.

For Liverpool, 6th October.

For Birmingham, 7th October.

For Edinburgh and Glasgow, 13th and 15th October.

For Dundee and Aberdeen, 10th and 11th November.

27613

(No. 171.)

MY LORD,

No. 35.

FIJI.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 5 September, 1910.)

Government House, Suva, Fiji, 26th July, 1910. WITH reference to your Lordship's despatch, Miscellaneous, of 27th May last,* I have the honour to forward a set of twelve photographs illustrative of the coconut industry in Fiji.

2. I trust that the photographs will prove suitable for the purpose for which they are required by the Visual Instruction Committee.

15200

SIR,

No. 37.

MR. A. E. BANHAM to SIR C. LUCAS.

(Received 6 October, 1910.)

Scotch Education Department, Dover House, Whitehall,

Committee on Visual Instruction.

5th October, 1910.

SIR JOHN STRUTHERS, who is in Scotland on business, desires me to write expressing his regret that it will not be possible for him to attend the meeting of the Committee on the 7th instant.

He directs me to forward, for the information of the Committee, the enclosed

copy of correspondence relating to the lectures on India, viz. ;—

(1) Copy of letter addressed by Sir John Struthers to the Directors of Studies

of the four Provincial Committees for the Training of Teachers in Scotland.

(2) Copies of replies so far received (3).

(3) Copy of letter from Sir John Struthers to Mr. Mackinder, M.P.

Yours, &c.,

A. E. BANHAM.

Enclosure 1 in No. 37.

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ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

15200

MY DEAR LUCAS,

No. 36.

I have, &c.,

EVERARD IM THURN.

DEAR

PROFESSOR M. E. SADLER to SIR C. LUCAS. (Received 1 October, 1910.)

Eastwood, Weybridge, 30th September, 1910. I AM Sorry to have to enclose this letter, which has just reached me, as it means that the Committee's slides will not be shown this autumn in Birmingham under the auspices of the Education Committee. I had hoped that Sir George Kenrick, who is a near relation of Mr. Chamberlain, would have taken a special interest in the plan, but evidently he did not see his way to present the slides to the Committee.

DEAR SIR,

Enclosure in No. 36.

Yours sincerely,

M. E. SADLER.

City of Birmingham Education Department,

Edmund Street, 29th September, 1910. YOUR letter of the 19th ultimo, addressed to Sir George Kenrick in regard to a suggested illustrated course of lectures to Birmingham teachers on India, was

• No. 20.

LETTER TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE TRAINING COLLEGES.

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I SEND you herewith an advance copy of eight lectures on India which

21st September, 1910. have been prepared by Mr. H. J. Mackinder, M.P., for the Visual Instruction Committee of the Colonial Office, of which I am a member. The purpose which the Committee has in view and the circumstances in which this particular set of lectures has been prepared are sufficiently explained in the prefatory note. Ulti- mately they are meant for use in schools in the manner in which similar sets of lectures on the Home Country are in use in the schools of several of the Colonies, and it is hoped that by-and-by School Boards and School Managers, either singly or in combination, will provide themselves with sets of the necessary illustrative slides.

But meanwhile it occurs to me that it would be useful to make some preliminary trial of the lectures and slides in a course of lectures to be given to some or all of your students or to teachers under the form of an Article 55 class. I think that the services of Mr. Mackinder himself might be obtained for the delivery of some or all of the lectures and, if so, that course would be best. If Mr. Mackinder is unable himself to undertake the lectures, I have no doubt he would be in a position to recommend an efficient substitute, but it is possible (and desirable if possible) that you may see your way to arrange for this work being undertaken by some of the Committee's own officers.

The sets of slides will be ready, I believe, early in October, and it would be an advantage if it could be arranged to have the course of lectures given before Christmas.

You might consider this proposal, and, if you think well of it, bring it before your Committee in the way you think best. In the event of the Committee seeing their way to arrange for the course, it may be taken for granted that the necessary