Report of His Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition, Saint Louis, 1904.

Date:
[1906?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of His Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition, Saint Louis, 1904. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was entirely collective. It was organised by the Kducation Committee of the Royal Commission, of which Mr. F. G, Ogilvie was Chairman. The Exhibit was arranged so as to illustrate the Educational system adopted in Great Britain and Ireland through all its different stages, from elementary schools to special Technical Schools and the Universities. A large number of different Institutions were represented. All the Universities in Great Britain and Ireland, many of the large Public Schools, and a considerable number of the, important Technical Institutions contributed to the collection, which may be regarded as the best representation of the subject ever made outside the United Kingdom. The exhibit formed a clear and systematic exposition of the matter and methods of Education in the United Kingdom, while the valuable collections of school programmes and other documents available for reference, afforded to the interested visitor ample opportunity for detailed investigation. The same Committee were responsible for the Social Hconomy Exhibit. The prominent features of this were the diagrams of much interest contributed by the Board of Trade, the Post Office, Mr. Charles Booth, and several Municipalities. The whole indicated the more prominent movements in Social Economy in the United Kingdom. The most important Department in the British Section was that of Art, for which the works were collected and arranged under the supervision of Sir Kidward J. Poynter, Bart., P.R.A., Chairman of the Com- mittee, which included the Presidents of nearly all the important Art Societies and Institutions in the country. The Art Galleries consisted of a central building and two wings, besides a separate building for sculpture. The central building was allotted to the American