Evening Classes of elementary instruction for young persons in his employment whose school education had been neglected, and of instruction in drawing, chemistry and mechanics for such of his adult workmen as chose to avail themselves of it. In 1854, his plan was expanded into a regularly organized School of Mechanics and Engineering. As the resources from which he intended to endow it accumulated, he included courses of practical agriculture, horticulture and landscape gardening; and finally, on the breaking out of the war, he signified his purpose to alternate the practical work of the shop and the field with military drill. The institution thus projected and expanded was a comprehensive Polytechnic School-which would at once supply through its evening classes the deficient elementary schooling of his own workmen, meet the wants of technical instruction in any occupation in the community in which he lived, and offer a thorough scientific basis for the practical training of the agriculturist, the architect, the engineer, the machinist, the designer, the manufacturer, the miner and metallurgist, as well as of the candidate for any other of the leading industries of the country. In the inception and development of his plan, he was pleased to consult me; and in 1854 signified his desire to name me in the instrument by which he should create and endow the trust, with a request that I would obtain full and reliable accounts of all establishments at home or abroad, which had any feature in common with the school which he contemplated, and which it was his purpose to endow by will beyond any literary institution in New England; and to be prepared to report a plan, when called on. In pursuance of this request, and of studies already widely extended in the field of scientific and technical instruction, a large portion of the material for the chapters and special sections which compose this volume, were collected, and to some extent prepared for publication and printed in the American Journal of Education, at the time of Col. Colt's death in 1862, when it was found that his original purpose to endow by will such an institution had been revoked by a later codicil. In 1863, at the request of Mrs. Colt, the work of collection and preparation was resumed, and a portion relating to Military Schools and Education was published in advance of the completion of the Report, which was intended to be a complete survey of Institutions for Special Instruction in the Sciences and Arts in different countries, to aid in the development of a Plan for a Polytechnic School, in the city of Hartford, Conn. Her object was simply to enable me to complete my survey of the whole field of Special Instruction; and was abandoned by her on the partial destruction of the Armory Buildings by fire in 1865. Since that date the work has been prosecuted to its present state of completion as rapidly as was consistent with other engagements. HENRY BARNARD : Institutions, and Courses of Instruction in the Principles of Sci- CONTENTS. Progressive Development of Schools and Practical Courses of Instruction in Science,...... 21 1. Government Institutions for Military and other Public Services, 3. Realistic. Scientific, and Technical Museums, Schools, Classes, Laboratories, and Workshops devoted to National Industries,.. PART I. SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS OF SPECIAL AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION,..33-800 I. AUSTRIA. System and Statistics of Public Instruction,...... SYSTEM AND INSTITUTIONS OF SPECIAL INSTRUCTION,. Progressive Development of the System,.. 1. Industrial Element in Common Schools, 2. Sunday Improvement-Schools, 6. Special Academies and Institutions,...... Technical and Special Schools... 1. Elementary Improvement and Supplementary Schools, (1) Apprentice and Workmen's School at Vienna,.. (2.) Manufacturers' and Trade School at Prague, (3.) Mechanics' and Weaving School at Brunn,.. 2. Higher Mechanic and Trade Schools,... (1.) Municipal Practical School in Vienna,.. (2.) Provincial Practical School at Prague, (3) Imperial Practical School in Vienna,. 3. Polytechnic Institutions,.. (1) Polytechnic Institute at Prague,... General Programme of Instruction, common to all pupils, Division A.-Bridges and Roads,.. Division II-Architecture and Construction,.. Division IV-Chemistry and its Application to the Arts,. 4. Comparative View of Austrian and other Polytechnic Schools,. (1.) Date-Location-Divisions or Schools-Professors-Pupils,.. (4.) Mechanics-Theory and Practice of Machine-building-Workshops, (1.) Superior Forest Academies,. Imperial Forest Academy at Mariabrunn,. (2.) Intermediate Schools at Wiesewasser, Aussen and Kreutz,.. INSTITUTIONS AND CLASSES OF SPECIAL INSTRUCTION,. 1. Sunday and Holiday Improvement Schools,.. 1. Sunday Technical School at Nuremberg,.. 2. Sunday and Holiday Schools in Munich, c. Handicrafts School,... 3. Female Holiday Schools.... b. Parish Holiday Schools,. 3. District Trade School at Nuremberg,... 2. Sunday School for Artisans, 3. Elementary Drawing School,.. 2. Royal School of the Arts applied to Industrial Productions at Nuremberg,. 3. Special School of Industrial Drawing at Nuremberg,.. 4. Official Programme for Instruction in Drawing in Technical Schools, 2. Workingmen's Union Schools at Berlin,.. 3. Provincial Trade School at Dantzic, 4. Royal Real School at Berlin,.. 5. City Trade School at Berlin, 6. Royal Trade Academy at Berlin,. Organization and Condition in 1837... Reorganization and Condition in 1867,. (1) General Technological Department,. (2.) Special Technological Section,.. 7. School of Industrial Drawing, |