Summary of statistics of schools of industrial and manual training (Table 57) Statistics of schools giving industrial training in various forms (Table 58).......... Summary of statistics of commercial and business colleges (Table 62).......... Statistics of commercial and business colleges (Table 63)..... Summary of statistics of training schools for nurses (Table 64)........ Statistics of training schools for nurses (Table 65)................ Amount and disposition of the sums disbursed from the Peabody fund (Table 76) Amount and disposition of the sums disbursed from the Slater fund (Table 77).. Statistics of institutions for the instruction of the colored race (Table 78).... Summary of statistics of institutions for the education of the colored race Summary of statistics of public libraries of 1,000 volumes and upwards (Table Pagu 717 Particulars of the recent history of secondary instruction in Great Britain.... Distribution of the hours of study at Eton (Table 93).. Distribution of the hours of study at Harrow (Table 94)........ REPORT. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C., June 15, 1887. SIR: I have the honor to submit the Annual Report of this Office for the year ending June 30, 1886. I was nominated by the President to the Senate on the 3d day of August, and confirmed August 5, 1886, both dates being after the year covered by this Report had expired. I visited the Office immediately after my confirmation, and, after a necessary delay in order to arrange my private affairs at home, assumed personal charge of its work about the beginning of last October. CORRESPONDENCE. During the year 1885-'86, this Office received 8,522 letters, 50,771 printed communications, and 5,368 documents, books, and pamphlets; the communications sent out by the Office during the same time numbered 18,468 written and printed letters, 246,708 publications, and about 12,000 statistical forms of inquiry. All the statistical forms related to the year 1884-'85, and the result appears in the Report of this Office for that time. PUBLICATIONS. During the year 1885-'86 the Office distributed the following publica tions not heretofore mentioned. Annual Report for 1883-'84. Special report on American education in fine and industrial art; Special report on outlines for a museum of anatomy, by Dr. R. W. Report on education in Alaska, by Dr. Sheldon Jackson. Also the following circulars of information: No. 3, 1885. A review of the reports of the British Royal Commis. sioners on technical instruction. No. 4, 1885. Education in Japan. No. 5, 1885. Physical training in American colleges and universi ties. Besides the foregoing new publications, the following formerly reported documents were republished in 1885-'86, to supply renewed demands: Circular No. 1, 1885. City-school systems in the United States. Bulletin on instruction in morals and civil government. In addition to these, the Office had prepared and brought near to publication the following: Special report on education at the New Orleans Exhibition; Part I: Catalogue of articles exhibited in the section of education; Part II: Proceedings of the International Congress of Educa tors; and Part III: Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, etc. Also two pamphlets, one on the study of music in public schools, and the other containing the proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association for 1886. The list of publications prepared during the year 1885-'86 certainly shows no lack of industry on the part of this Office; though it may be questioned whether the undertaking of labors so vast and various with a force so limited in number was entirely wise. Upon the assumption of my new duties, I found that the Annual Report of the Office for the year 1884-'85 was not complete, and that nothing had been done to prepare for the present Report. After a careful study of the situation I determined to urge the completion of the first-named document and other unfinished work then in the Office, and afterwards to concentrate all efforts as much as possible upon the preparation of the present volume, so that the delay in issuing it might be less than that in the case of previous issues, and that subsequent Reports might be more promptly prepared. Work upon the Report for 1884-'85 was not completed until the month of December, 1886, whenpr eparatory work on the present Report began. OFFICE LIBRARY. The library of the Office, according to the Report of 1884-'85, contained 17,500 books and 45,000 pamphlets. There are now on the shelves more than 18,000 volumes and over 50,000 pamphlets, besides duplicates. The collection contains many pedagogical works, and forms a profes sional library of great value. The preservation and cataloguing of this collection should be, as they have been, objects of constant attention, but the small amount of appropriation made for its benefit, and the limited force of the Office have not allowed as much to be done in this direction as is desirable. Of late years much attention has been given in this country to library organization and management, but educational libraries have not received the attention that their importance demands. I wish to emphasize the value of this library as an educational agency. |