According to regulation, ten members of the Institute were elected to seats in the Executive Committee for the ensuing year.

There were enrolled as members in attendance at the Institute 181 teachers and 3 other school officers. There were present also 6 members ex officio and 2 honorary members, making a total membership of 192. These represented every county in the Province except Madawaska, Restigouche, and Sunbury.

The following is a summary of the attendance at the meetings of the Educational Institute since its organization:

Teachers' Institutes.

Teachers' Institutes were held during the year in all the Counties except Albert and Sunbury. Albert has heretofore held its Institute regularly, and would, I understand, have held it last year but for a temporary suspension of railway facilities about the time it was to meet. The last Institute meeting held in Sunbury, was in 1884. There is no doubt, as Acting Inspector Whelpley says in his report, that the want of travelling facilities is largely the reason of this failure, but I cannot but think that it is partly due also to a want of interest among some of the leading Teachers of the County. The County of Queens, with equal disadvantages in respect of facilities for travel, has not failed to hold its Institute regularly except in 1889. Madawaska and Victoria, which had not organized an Institute previous to 1889, were in that year formed into one Institute District, and have had two very successful meetings. The number in attendance was not as large as could be wished, but this was owing, as the Inspector reports, to the very unfavourable weather and bad travelling at the time they were held.

These Institutes deal exclusively with subjects relating to the practical work of the School-room, and are thus very valuable aids, especially to teachers of limited experience. From the large infusion of young and vigorous life into the teaching ranks year by year, such organizations as Teachers' Institutes are needed where the inexperienced may learn from the successful experience of others. In this connection, too, I must say that I believe our Educational Review to be a necessity, and that its timely articles and judicious management have done and are doing much hopeful service for the young and inexperienced teacher, and for the advancement of the profession generally. I invite attention to several papers read at Institutes during the year, which will be found in Appendix D.

TABLE OF ATTENDANCE AT TEACHERS' INSTITUTES SINCE THEIR FORMATION IN 1881.

Arbor Day.

Arbor Day was celebrated May 16th, in accordance with the following provisions of Reg. 19-2:

Arbor Day: With a view of encouraging the improvement and ornamentation of school grounds, and thereby of cultivating, on the part of pupils, habits of neatness and order, and a taste for the beautiful in nature, the Board of Education makes the following provision :

Teachers are hereby authorized, with the sanction of the Trustees, to set apart any Friday that may be deemed most suitable during the months of May or June for the purpose of improving the school grounds and planting thereon trees, shrubs, and flowers, such day to be known as "Arbor Day," and when duly observed, credit to be given for it as a lawful teaching day. See Remark and Notes under Reg. 13.

Arbor Day will be regarded as duly observed when the following conditions are complied with:

(a) That the Friday in May or June which the Inspector shall from year to year recommend to be observed within his Inspectoral District is set apart as Arbor Day.

(b) That Teachers who observe Arbor Day make within five days thereafter a report to the Inspector of their District, which report shall state the name and number of the District, the date on which the day was observed, what improvements were made to the School grounds, the number of trees planted, number of shrubs, or number of flower-beds made.

(c) That the Inspector forward to the Chief Superintendent a tabular synopsis of the reports of the Teachers within his Inspectoral District not later than June 30th.

The following table shows the extent of the work done on that day, which was to many pupils one of the busiest, most pleasant, and most healthful days of the year:

Educational Exhibit.

At the solicitation of the Directors of the International Exhibition held in St. John last fall, this Department undertook to furnish an exhibit of the manual work of the schools, and sent out to each Teacher a circular, of which the following is a partial copy, but quite sufficient to show the nature of the work required, as well as the kind of work carried on in our schools:

EDUCATION OFFICE, FREDERICTON, N. B.,
April 8th, 1890.

EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT.

This Department purposes to make an Educational Exhibit in connection with Canada's International Exhibition to be held in the City of St. John, opening September 24th, and continuing till October 4th, and respectfully solicits the co-operation of Teachers and Boards of Trustees in this behalf.

(2) School furniture,

The Exhibit will consist of (1) Specimens of Manual Work. apparatus, maps, text-books, photographs of school-buildings, etc. Specimens of Manual Work should embrace the requirements of the course in this respect, both in graded and ungraded schools.

GRADED SCHOOLS. -Specimens from the several Standards to be as follows: Standard I-Common print, modelling of forms in clay, paper forms. Standard II-Print script, modelling in clay, paper forms, representation of school-room, as embodying first ideas of a map. Standard III-Print Script, modelling in clay, paper forms, drawings from Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing, map of County. Standard IV— Writing-answers to questions on reading lesson, and weaving them into a connected narrative, modelling and drawing as before, map of the Province. Standard V – Writing a short narrative composition, or the substance of an oral lesson on the effects of alcohol on the organs of circulation, modelling and drawings as before, outline map of the Dominion. Standard VI- Writing-narrative composition, or the substance of some oral lesson in physics. modelling and drawings as before, map of one of the Provinces of the Dominion (not New Brunswick). Standard VII- Writing - short historical narrative, or description of some experiment in the chemistry of Common Things, and one of the first fifteen propositions of geometry, modelling and drawings as before, map of South America, or Australia. Standard VIII- Writing specimens of accounts and bills; algebra, an easy equation and a problem; expansion of a sentence into a narrative paragraph, or the substance of some oral lesson on respiration, modelling and drawings as before, map of Palestine or England.

Specimens of sewing and knitting, as practised in the respective standards, or specimens of work done in schools where the instruction is not graded.

UNGRADED SCHOOLS. -Standard I-Common print and print script, modelling of forms in clay (optional). Standard II-Print script, modelling as before, map of school room. Standard III-Print script-answers to questions on Reading Lesson, modelling as before, drawings from shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing, map of County. Standard IV - Writing a letter on some familiar subject, modelling as before, drawings as before, map of the Province. Standard V-Writing—a short narrative, or substance of a lesson on an agricultural topic, specimens of accounts and bills, modelling as before, drawings as before, map of one of the Provinces of the Dominion (not New Brunswick), or outline map of Europe.

In addition to the foregoing, each school will have the privilege of exhibiting any special work in harmony with the requirements of the Course of Instruction.

As the Shorter Course in Form Study and Drawing has only recently been taken up in the schools, teachers may, if they prefer, forward specimens of work done by the more advanced pupils in the previous course.

In Grammar or High Schools in which the work is in advance of Standard VIII, specimens of such manual work as is practised may be forwarded; also written translations from Latin, Greek, or French into English, or vice versa. Specimens of demonstrations, or solutions of mathematical problems, chemical equations, and illustrative diagrams, arising out of some experiment which the pupil has performed or seen; and illustrations of other work in Natural Science.

It is recommended that all the pupils in a Standard participate in the exercises of the Standard, and that the larger number, at least, of the specimens be forwarded, the object of the Exhibit being to show the general character of our school work, and not. merely to display the performances of exceptional pupils.

Considering that the Course in Form Study and Drawing had just been introduced at the beginning of the preceding Term, the response of the teachers to this invitation was very satisfactory, and the work highly creditable. Every County was represented, except Sunbury.

The following is a list of the schools which forwarded specimens of work:

GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.

Alma, Woodstock, St. Andrews, St. John, Richibucto, Sussex, Chatham.

SUPERIOR SCHOOLS.

Elgin Corner, Hartland, Bristol, St. George, St. Stephen, Petit Rocher, Havelock, Hampton Station, Kingston (Kent Co.), Clifton (Kings Co.), Edmundston, Chipman, Milford, Grand Falls, Moncton, Harvey Station, Forest City.

COMMON SCHOOLS.

ALBERT Co.-Goshen, No. 3, Elgin and Sussex.

CARLETON Co.-Greenfield, No. 9, Wicklow; Jacksontown, No. 8, Wakefield; Bull's Creek, No. 3, Woodstock; Woodstock, (Town).

CHARLOTTE CO.-Castalia, No. 2, Grand Manan; No. 2, Dufferin; Gleason Road, No. 13, St. James; Lower Bay Side, No. 2, St. Croix and St. Andrews; Oak Hill, No. 9, St. James; St. Stephen, (Town); Bocabec Ridge, No. 2, St. Patrick ; Grand Harbor, No. 4, Grand Manan; St. Andrews, (Town); St. George, No. 1, St. George.

GLOUCESTER CO.-Salmon Beach, No. 14, Bathurst; Dumfries, No. 7, Beresford and Bathurst; No. 12, Beresford; No. 13, Beresford; No. 7, St. Isidore.

KENT Co.-St. Louis, No. 2, St. Louis; South Branch, No. 1, Weldford.

KINGS CO. Oak Point, No. 2, Greenwich; Lily Lake, No. 4, Greenwich; Midland, No. 9, Kingston; Nauwigewauk, Rothesay; No. 12, Springfield; Smith's Creek, No. 10, Studholm; Titusville, No. 3, Upham; Lands End, No. 8, Westfield. MADAWASKA.- Edmundston.

NORTHUMBERLAND Co.-Chatham, (Town); Napan, No. 1, Chatham; Napan, No. 61, Chatham; Doaktown, No. 4, Blissfield; Black River, No. 1, Glenelg; Black Brook, No. 3, Chatham; Lower Newcastle, No. 2, Newcastle; Strathadam, No. 12, North Esk; Allison Settlement, No. 10, South Esk.

QUEENS CO.-Fowler District, No. 9, Petersville; Cumberland Bay, No. 5, Waterboro.