Facts and opinions relating to the deaf from America.

Date:
1888
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    20 Oauae of Deafness Number of Pupils iu School Number of Pupils capable of Auricular Instruotiou Number actually under Auricular Instruction Congenital Adventitious . Not stated Total . 48 44 8 12 4 1 (adult 1) 10 1 (adult 1) 100 18 16 * One at the age of 3 years, 1 at the age of 2 years, and 2 at the age of 1 year. ' National Deaf-Mute College, Kendall Green, near Washington, D.C.: ' May 7, 1888. 'My DEAR Professor Bell,—Let me thank you for your kind note of the 1st inst., and while I fear that I cannot at present write anything that would be of any value for your pur- pose, perhaps the enclosures may be of some use to you. At one time I thought of making at least a little memorandum for our Philosophical Society upon auricular work, and the enclo- sures were sent to me in reply to my requests for information. ' I also had letters from Dr. Gillett and Mr. Crouter, but these added no information of consequence. ' I have made no use of Mrs. Taylor's interesting paper, and turn it over to you. ' One point of considerable importance in regard to auricular work is this : very imperfect audition may be utilised with profit in improving the modulation of voice and the general quality of the articulation if persistently appealed to by the teacher of articulation. Another point is that many cases of feeble hearing power are to be found among the so-called con- genitally deaf, where the deaf habit has been formed largely through neglect. ' In reference to visible speech, I feel that you will be fully justified in urging that all teachers of articulation should be thoroughly grounded in the mechanism of speech; and to this end visible speech gives a completeness and definiteness and sense of mastery not readily acquired by any purely experi-