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I have to state that the lectures were highly appreciated by the students, and seemed to arouse a high degree of interest amongst them; but as yet no School Board or Secondary Education Committee have requested any information from me regard- ing the lectures or the slides. It is the intention of my Committee, however, to offer several courses throughout the province next session, and to encourage in every way possible, by loan of the slides and otherwise, the work of the Visual Instruction Committee.

A. E. Banham, Esq.,

Scotch Education Department, London.

Yours, &c.,

JAMES MALLOCH.

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The Committee hope to be able to meet the views of the Council, and I am to ask whether Mr. Blair would be good enough at his convenience to see Sir Everard im Thurn, a member of the Committee, and to discuss the matter with him.

I am, &c.,

W. E. NOALL,

Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee.

No. 102.

DEAR SIR,

(2.)

Training Centre, Charlotte Street, Aberdeen, 24th March, 1911.

Visual Instruction Committee.

I AM favoured with your letter of 18th instant.

At this centre the lectures were attended only by teachers in town and students who are to leave at midsummer.

I learn that the School Board of Aberdeen have not yet made any move in the direction of either purchasing or hiring a set of slides.

So far as the teachers and students who attended the lectures are concerned, I am to say that they expressed themselves as highly satisfied. Mr. MacGregor, our Master of Method, who delivered all the lectures after the first, took great pains to bring out the points which the course of lectures was meant to emphasise.

A. E. Banham, Esq.

DEAR SIR,

(3.)

Yours, &c.,

GEORGE SMITH.

Glasgow Provincial Committee for the Training of Teachers,

Technical College, George Street, Glasgow,

March 29, 1911.

Visual Instruction Committee.

In reply to Sir John Struthers's enquiry, as indicated in your letter of the 18th instant, I am to say that the lectures on India appear to have been thoroughly appreciated by the students, but that, so far as I have been able to learn, there has been no evidence of a desire for lantern slides on the part of school boards. It was observed when the matter was discussed in Committee that certain school board members rather deprecated the use of the slides, which were obviously associated in their minds with cinematograph performances. The students who attended the lectures were able to assess more justly the educational value of visual aids, and the influence of these students may be felt later. It is not to be forgotten also that slides are already, and have for years been, freely used in many schools in Scotland in connection with the teaching of geography.

A. E. Banham, Esq.

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Yours, &c.,

D. MACLEOD,

Director of Studies.

No. 101.

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.

VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to THE EDUCATION OFFICER,

SIR,

Downing Street, S.W., 20 March, 1911.

I AM directed to inform you that the Visual Instruction Committee have had before them Mr. Allen's letter of the 9th of March,* on the subject of the use of lantern slides in the schools of the London County Council.

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VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to THE EDUCATION OFFICER, LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.

SIR,

Downing Street, 20 March, 1911.

I AM directed by the Visual Instruction Committee to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Allen's letter of the 17th of March* respecting the supply of coloured pictures of Colonial life and scenery for use in schools.

My Committee are now negotiating with publishers for the reproduction of the paintings made by Mr. A. Hugh Fisher, and they would be glad of the advice of the members of your Department, more particularly in the selection of the pictures which would be most suitable for the purpose in view.

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I am, &c.,

W. E. NOALL,

Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee.

No. 103.

VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MR. A. HUGH FISHER. (Extract.)

DEAR MR. FISHER,

THE Visual Instruction Committee have now met, and have agreed to your

Downing Street, 20 March, 1911. including in your book on India colour reproductions of the eight paintings which you mention.

An acknowledgment with each picture, such as that proposed, and a reference in the preface, would quite meet the wishes of the Committee.

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No. 104.

Yours, &c.,

W. E. NOALL.

VISUAL INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE to MESSRS. NEWTON AND COMPANY.

GENTLEMEN,

Downing Street, S.W., 21 March, 1911.

I AM directed to inform you, in reply to your letter of the 14th of March, t that the Visual Instruction Committee approve of your proposal that the Indian slides should be published without colour, except in the case of the maps.

The set of 60 slides for each lecture will be sold at £3 5s., and the complete set of 480 slides for the full series of eight lectures at £26.

The royalty payable to the Committee will remain at 12 per cent. The Committee note with appreciation your offer to quote a special reduced price for the supply of a number of complete sets to an education authority.

I am, &c.,

W. E. NOALL, (Secretary, Visual Instruction Committee.)

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