Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Report of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, 1878 We, the Lords of the Committee of Your Majesty's Privy Council on Education, humbly present to Your Majesty this our Report of the Science and Art Department for the year 1877. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.