Library,

Laboratory,

In addition to the accommodation thus enumerated, there are, in the basement, rooms for the residence of the Janitor, together with furnace rooms, from whence warm air is conducted to the whole building.

IV. EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM.

On the establishment, in 1857, of an educational museum and a model grammar school, it was found necessary to provide further accommodation, and to remove the normal school to another part of the premises. With this view a large additional building was erected, at a cost including fittings, of about $35,000, in rear of the main structure, having a handsome front facing on Gerrard Street. To this building was transferred, in 1858, the normal school-the model grammar school being then but newly opened. The following account of the Educational Museum, is given by Dr. Ryerson.

This Educational Museum is founded after the example of what is being done by the Imperial Government as a part of the system of popular education-regarding the indirect, as scarcely secondary to the direct, means of training the minds and forming the taste and character of the people. It consists of a collection of school apparatus for Common and Grammar Schools, of Models of Agricultural and other implements, of specimens of the Natural History of the Country, Casts of Antique and Modern Statues and Busts, &c., selected from the principal Museums of Europe, including busts of some of the most celebrated characters in English and French History; also copies of some of the works of the great Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and especially of the Italian Schools of Painting. These objects of art are labeled, for the information of those who are not familiar with the originals, and a descriptive historical catalogue of them can be purchased at the Museum. In the evidence given before the Select Committee of the British House of Commons, it is justly stated that, "the object of a National Gallery is to improve the public taste, and to afford a more refined description of enjoyment to the mass of the people," and the opinion is at the same time strongly expressed, that as "people of taste going to Italy constantly bring home beautiful modern copies of beautiful originals," it is desirable, even in England, that those who have not the opportunity or means of traveling abroad, should be enabled to see, in the form of an accurate copy, some of the celebrated works of Raffaelle, and other great masters; an object no less desirable in Canada, than in England. What has been thus far done in this branch of public instruction, is in part the result of a small annual sum, which, by the liberality of the Legislature, has been placed at the disposal of the Chief Superintendent of Education, out of the Upper Canada share of the School Grants, for the purpose of improving school architecture and appliances, and to promote arts, science, and literature, by means of models, objects, and publications, collected in a museum in connection with this department.

The contents of the Museum are arranged under the heads of Sculpture, Paintings, Engravings, Works Illustrating the History of Art, &c., and Other Objects of Interest.

V. DEPOSITORY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOKS, APPARATUS AND MAPS.

By the same Law of Upper Canada, County, City, Township and Village Councils, Boards of School Trustees in cities, towns, and villages, and Trustees of rural school Sections are authorized to provide means by tax, or otherwise, for the establishment and support of public school libraries, and supplying schools with apparatus, maps, &c.; and to encourage action by the above corporations, the Superintendent is authorized to add one hundred per cent. to any sum, or sums, not less than five dollars transmitted to him for the purchase. To aid persons acting in behalf of these corporations, the Superintendent is authorized to select, and procure, at the lowest wholesale price, a stock of suitable books and articles, and publish a classified catalogue of the same, with the lowest price at which each book and article can be furnished, and to give all desired help in the selection.