admitted to the second session of the Ottawa Normal School, 30 males, 50 females, 34 of them had been teachers before, 17 males, 17 females.

Table I contains abstracts in connection with the twenty-seven years' existence of the Normal School at Toronto, to show the total number of applications, certificates obtained, the Counties whence the students came, and their religious persuasions. Also, an abstract of the students admitted at the Normal School at Ottawa. The conditions, however, under which Public School Teachers' Certificates may now be granted have been so changed by the Amended Regulations which came into effect in August, 1877, that Table I, with Appendix H, will henceforth contain the information applicable to these new conditions. The Normal Schools at Toronto and Ottawa are now confined to the teaching and training of candidates for First and Second-Class Certificates, while in each County of the Province, one or more County Model Schools have been established for the professional training of candidates for ThirdClass Certificates, details of which will be found in Appendix D. In the Normal School the session for First-Class Certificates extends throughout the Academic year, from September to July, and the instruction is literary and scientific, and also professional-but attendance is optional-while for Second-Class Certificates the attendance is obligatory on all candidates during one of three sessions of twelve weeks each into which the Academic year is divided. The whole time of each session is devoted exclusively to instruction in the theory and practice of teaching. Successful candidates are entitled to be repaid out of Provincial Funds for their travelling expenses and one half their weekly maintenance. In the County Model Schools the candidate who has passed the examination in the prescribed literary and scientific subjects for Third-Class Certificates is required to be instructed in the actual practice of teaching for one term at least, and he must also satisfactorily pass this examination in order to obtain his Third Class Certificate.

At the July examinations, 1877, at the Normal Schools there were :

(1) 1st Class Candidates at Toronto, 10 in number of whom 7 passed. do

(2)

(3) 2nd Class

do do

do 1 do

Ottawa, 4
Toronto, 63

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do 37 do and also (and inclu

sive of) 1 Candidate for 1st Class.

(4) 2nd Class Candidates at Ottawa, 27 in number, of whom 15 passed, and also (and inclusive of) 2 Candidates for 1st Class.

At the December examinations in 1877, of 2nd Class Candidates there were the following:-(1) At Toronto, 24 in number, of whom 21 passed. (2) At Ottawa, 17 in number, of whom 16 passed.

Appendix D also shows the following results of the two terms of the County Model School which were in operation from September till the end of the year 1877, viz :-No. of Schools, 50; No. of Third-Class Candidates in attendance, 1,146; No. of whom passed, 1,124.

X.-TABLE J.-FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

1. The amount expended in library books during 1877, was $5,537, of which one half has been provided from local sources. The number of volumes supplied was 6,549. 2. The value of Public free libraries furnished to the end of 1877, was $169,001. The number of Libraries, exclusive of subdivisions, 1,499. The number of volumes in these libraries was 281,135.

3. Number and classification of public libraries and prize books which have been sent out from the Depository of the Department from 1853 to 1877 inclusive. The total number of volumes for Public Free Libraries sent out, 288,135. The classification of these books is as follows:-History, 48,456; Zoology and Physiology, 16,644; Botany, 3,007; Phenomena, 6,864; Physical Science, 5,195; Geology, 2,441; Natural Philosophy and Manufactures, 14,126; Chemistry, 2,479; Practical Agriculture, 10,51; Literature, 27,852; Voyages, 26,543; Biography, 32,222; Tales and Sketches, Practical Life, 81,507; Fiction, 4,299; Teachers' Library, 5,999. Total number of Prize Books sent out, 909,465. Grand Total of

library and prize books (including, but not included in the above, 30,650 volumes sent to Mechanics' Institutes and Sunday Schools, paid for wholly from local sources, 1,257,600.

XI. —TABLE K.—SUMMARY OF THE MAPS, APPARATUS, AND PRIZE BOOKS SUPPLIED TO THE COUNTIES, CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES DURING THE YEAR.

1. The amount expended by the Education Department in supplying maps, apparatus, and prize books for the Schools, $41,330-decrease, $1,954. The one half of these sums were provided voluntarily from local sources; in all cases the books or articles are applied for, and fifty per cent. of the value paid for by the parties concerned. The number of Maps of the World sent out was 374, of Europe, 326; of Asia, 240; of Africa, 215; of America, 509; of British North America, and Canada, 398; of Great Britain and Ireland, 196; Scriptural and Classical, 87; of other charts and maps, 956; of globes, 216; of other pieces of school apparatus, 4,117; of Historical and other lessons, in sheets, 20,072. Number of Prize Books 63,027.

2. From 1855 to the end of 1877, the amount expended for maps, apparatus, and prize books (not including Public Libraries), was $583,648. The number of maps of the World furnished is 6,801; of Europe, 6,623; of Asia, 5,258; of Africa, 4,824; of America, 6,026; of British North America and Canada, 7,106; Great Britain and Ireland, 5,198 ; of Classical and Scriptural Maps, 3,578; other Maps and Charts, 10,268; Globes, 3,398; single articles of school apparatus, 32,233; Historical and other lessons in sheets, 312,380; Volumes of Prize Books, 969,465.

(1) TABLE SHEWING THE VALUE OF ARTICLES SENT OUT FROM THE EDUCATION DEPOSITORY DURING THE YEAR 1851 TO 1877, INCLUSIVE.

(2) IMPORTS OF BOOKS INTO ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.

The following Statistical Table has been compiled from the "Trade and Navigation Returns," for the year specified, showing the gross value of Books (not Maps or School Apparatus) imported into Ontario and Quebec.

XII. TABLE L.-SUPERANNUATED OR DISABLED TEACHERS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1. This table shows the age and service of each Public School Teacher who was in receipt of his superannuation allowance at the end of the year 1877, and the amount which he receives. The system, according to which aid is given to Superannuated or disabled Public School teachers, is as follows:-in 1853, the Legislature appropriated $2,000, which it afterwards increased to $4,000 and then to $6,000; on the adoption of the system of compulsory subscriptions, which increased the revenue to $11,800, for 1873 the vote was again increased, and for 1877 was $35,500. The allowance cannot exceed $6.00 annually for each year the recipient has taught School in Ontario, except in cases of High School Masters, Inspectors of Public or High Schools, or teachers holding First or Second Class Certificates, when a further allowance at the rate of one dollar for each year of such service is granted. Each recipient must pay a subscription to the Fund of $4 for the current year, and $5 for each year of service in arrear since, and inclusive of, 1854; nor can any teacher share in the fund unless he pays annually at that rate, commencing at the time of his beginning to teach.

2. It appears from the Table that 478 have been admitted to receive aid, of whom 185 have died, have not been heard from, have resumed teaching, or have withdrawn from the fund before or during the year 1877, the amount of their subscriptions having been returned to them. Of the 478 admitted, 448 were males, 30 females.

3. The superannuation allowance is regulated by the provisions contained in the Public Schools Act (Revised Statutes, Chap. 205) Sec. 44 to 49 inclusive.

XIII. TABLE M.-EDUCATIONAL SUMMARY.

This Table shows the number of Public Educational Institutions, the number of students and pupils attending them, and the amount expended in their support as far as returns have been obtained. The whole number of these institutions in 1877 was 5,248— increase 98; the whole number of students and pupils attending them was 500,989-increase 1,011; the total amount expended for all educational purposes was $3,587,481. Total amount available for educational purposes, $3,950,897-increase, $93,965.

XIV. TABLE N.-GENERAL STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IN ONTARIO, FROM 1842 TO 1877, INCLUSIVE.

This table supplies the material for comparing the number and character of Educational Institutions at different periods, the number of pupils attending them, and the sums of money provided and expended for their support.

For

By analyzing and comparing these statistics, a correct appreciation can be formed of what has been accomplished educationally in Ontario during the last thirty years. example in 1842, the number of Public Schools was only 1,721. In 1851, this had increased to 3,001; and in 1877, to 5,140; and the number of pupils attending them from 168,159 in 1851, to 490,660 in 1877. The amount paid for the support of Public Schools has been increased from $468,644 in 1851, to $3,073,489 in 1877 (not including balances not paid at the date of the local reports), including the amount paid for the purchase, erection, repairs of School-houses and for other purposes, of which there are no reports earlier than 1850, but which at that time amounted to only $56,755, and $77,336 in 1851, but which in 1877 amounted to $1,035,390, making the aggregate actually paid for Public Schools purposes in 1877, with the balances available and not paid out at the date of the local reports, $3,423,185.