PREFATORY NOTE. In this Catalogue are given the net prices for cash at which the Maps and School Requisites enumerated therein may be obtained by Public Educational Institutions, from the Depository connected with the Education Office for Upper Canada. In transmitting an order for any of the articles for sale at the Depository, care must be taken to accompany it with the amount which may be required to pay for the quantity ordered-and also to give directions as to the mode of transmitting those articles to the parties sending the order It will be observed, that the price of the Maps, &c., are much lower than they have ever been procured at in this country, owing to the satisfactory arrangements which the Chief Superintendent of Schools has been enabled to make in England. The terms are strictly cash in all cases. The sole object of the Department is to provide facilities for supplying the Public Schools of Upper Canada with approved Books, Maps, and Apparatus, at cost. The following are the provisions of the law authorizing Trustees of Common Schools to furnish the Schools under their charge with all necessary School Requisites, &c. : Section XII. of the School Act makes it the duty of the Trustees :— Fourthly. To do whatever they may judge expedient with regard to the building, repairing, renting, warming, furnishing and keeping in order the section school-house, and its appendages, wood-house, privies, enclosures, lands, and moveable property, which shall be held by them, and for procuring apparatus and text-books for their Schools; also, to rent, repair, furnish, warm, and keep in order a school-house, and its appendages, if there be no suitable school-house belonging to such section, or if a second school-house be required. Fifteenthly, To see that no unauthorized books are used in the school, but that the pupils are duly supplied with an uniform series of text books, sanctioned and recommended according to law; and to procure, annually, for the benefit of their school section, some periodical devoted to education. XIV. And be it enacted, That no foreign books in the English branches of Education shall be used in any Model or Common School, without the express permission of the Council of Public Instruction; nor shall any pupil in any such School be required to read or study in or from any religious book, or join in any exercise of dovotion or religion, which shall be objected to by his or her parents or guardians: Provided always, that, within the limitation, pupils shall be allowed to receive such religious instruction as their parents or guardians shall desire, according to the general regulations which shall be provided according to law. By Section XVI. of the Act it is "the duty of every Teacher of a Common School" in Upper Canada, "Secondly, to keep the daily, weekly and monthly, or quarterly Registers of the Schools; ** also to keep a Visitors' Book-which the Trustees shall cause to be provided for that purpose." As the law requires that the School fund shall be distributed among the several School Sections according to the average attendance of pupils, it is absolutely essential that no School should be without its School Register; and as it is the duty of the Trustees of each School Section to provide such a Register, no party need complain should a local Superintendent withhold the School fund from the Section whose Trustees neglect their duty in this particular. See Section XXIV. of this Catalogue. OTHER SCHOOL REQUISITES. XI. ATLASES. 1. Physical, Political, and Astronomical. 2. School Geography. XII. NATIONAL SCHOOL Books. (Dublin Editions.) XIII. OBJECT LESSONS AND PRINTS. (Small Type Series.) 1. Natural History. 2. Natural Phenomena. 3. Prophetic and Scripture Sites. (Large Type Series.) 1. Scripture Natural History. 2. Natural History, &c. 3. Scripture Scenes. 4. Scripture Manners and Customs. 5. Scripture Prophetic Sites. 6. Forest Trees. XIV. ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY, ZOOLOGY, &c. (Chiefly Charts of Animals, &c., grouped.) XV. HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PRINTS. XVI. DIAGRAMS, CHARTS, AND VARIOUS PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. Natural Philosophy. 2. Chemistry. 3. Physiology. 4. Various Pictorial Illustrations of Science. XVII. ASTRONOMY. (Chiefly Charts and Diagrams.) XVIII. TABLET READING LESSONS. (Alphabets, Reading, Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar.) XIX. VOCAL MUSIC. (Manuals, &c.) XX. WRITING. (Manuals, and Copy Lines, Books, &c.) XXI. DRAWING. (Books and Materials.) XXII. SCHOOL APPARATUS. XXIII. AGRICULTURAL TEXT BOOKS. XXIV. MISCELLANEOUS. (Registers, Manuals for Teaching, Gymnastics, &c.) |