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Private day-classes are held in the College-rooms by permission of the Board in the following subjects: Drawing and painting, chemistry, elocution and voice-building, geometry, and biology. The last three classes conform to the scale of fees adopted by the Board. The following balance-sheet shows the disbursement of advances to Board of Technical Education from the vote for technical instruction for the year 1887 : — Receipts. & s. d. Expenditure. £ s. d. Credit by Government vote — To Administration —salaries, general, &e. 2,691 10 2 Amount paid into bank by Colonial Trea- 16,971 15 7 Salaries, instructors and teachers .. 6,190 9 5 surer Rent .. .. .. .. 3,124 19 2 Apparatus .. .. .. .. 584 5 10 Printing .. .. .. .. 76 7 6 Advertising.. .. .. .. 393 14 G Library .. .. .. .. 7 12 6 Fittings .. .. .. .. 99 15 9 Lectures .. .. .. .. 289 16 0 Examiners' fees .. .. .. 272 6 0 Prizes .. .. .. .. 101 13 11 General expenses .. .. .. 143 1 5 Lighting .. .. .. .. 412 8 8 Stationery .. .. .. .. 90 16 4 Analysing .. .. .. .. 59 17 0 Experimental manures on Eookwood 89 18 5 farms Petty expenditure .. .. .. 70 15 2 Country technical school-teachers .. 1,760 10 6 Class-expenses .. .. .. 95 19 4 Rent .. .. .. .. 137 0 0 Printing .. .. .. .. 6 0 0 Advertising .. .. .. 26 12 0 Apparatus .. .. .. 83 13 4 Lectures .. .. .. .. 162 12 8 £16,971 15 7 £16,971 15 7 The Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales. —Founded, 1880. (J. H. Maiden, Curator and Secretary.) This Museum, which already contains over twenty-five thousand specimens, is intended to occupy a similar position and fulfil the same purpose in this colony which the South Kensington Museum, the Bethnal Green Museum, the Museum of Practical Geology, the Patent Office Museum, and the Parkes Museum of Hygiene do in London. A complete synopsis of the scope of the Museum would be too voluminous. The following notes will, however, probably give sufficient information :— 1. Animal Products (exclusive of foods), and specimens to show the methods followed in their preparation and manufacture. —Products of (a.) Mammalia : "Wool, hair and bristles, horns, hides, skins and leather, furs, bones and ivory, oils, fats, and perfumes, (b.) Birds : Feathers, down, bird-skins, eggs, oil, and fat. (c.) Fisheries : Sponge, coral, pearls, shells, fish-oil, furs, whalebone, fish-culture and apparatus. (</.) Eeptilia : Tortoise-shell. la. Economic Entomology. (The specimens are arranged so as to enable the public to discriminate between insects which are injurious to man and those which work for his" benefit; and show their life-history and specimens of the materials which they have destroyed or injured.) —Insect ornaments; insects used in medicine and dyeing; silkworm, honey-bee, &c. 2. Vegetable Products, from the raw material through the various stages of manufacture to the finished fabric or other article. (This section includes gums, resins, oils, woods, fibres, tans, dyes, drugs, perfumes.)—Forestry and foiest products. 3. Waste Products, whether of animal, vegetable, or inorganic origin, with illustrations of their utilisation. 4. Foods, animal and vegetable, their constituents, and illustrations of their adulterations; dietary tables and information concerning the chemical composition and other important particulars regarding the human foods of the world. 5. Economic Geology. —Metallic ores; building and ornamental stones; gems and precious stones; mineral combustibles; lime, cement, and hydraulic cement, raw and burned; artificial stone; clays, kaolin, silica, and other materials for manufacture of pottery, glass, &c. ; refractorymaterials ; substances used for grinding and polishing, pigments of inorganic origin; collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, to illustrate well-known text-books; collections of minerals to illustrate physical properties— e.g., colour, lustre, diaphaneity; woven fabrics of mineral origin— e.g., wirecloth, asbestos-cloth. sa. Ceramics, Pottery, Porcelain. —Bricks, drain-tiles, terra-cotta, architectural pottery ; fire-clay goods, crucibles, pots, furnaces, chemical stoneware; tiles for ornament, pavements, roofing, &c.; earthenware, stoneware, art pottery and porcelain. sb. Glass. —Glass used for construction and for mirrors, window-glass, plate-glass —roughground or polished, toughened glass, chemical and pharmaceutical glassware, decorative glassware. 6. Original Specimens of Artistic Workmanship in wood, metal, and other substances.—Coins, and medals. 7. Photographs, Electrotype, Plaster, and other reproductions of examples of art-workman-ship where originals are not to be obtained. 8. Ethnological Specimens. —Musical instruments, national costumes, historical costumes, lace and embroidery.