Alabama, 81-86.

Constitution of, provision for educa-
tion, 81.

Number of schools established in, 81.
Opposition to education in, 81.
Poll tax in, 81.

Opposition to appointment of trustees
in, 81.

Normal schools, 81.

Classes established, 82.

State University, 82.

Medical college, 82.

Law school at Montgomery, 82.

Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and

Blind, 82.

School finances, 83.

School attendance, 83.

Lesson of the decades, 83.

Peabody fund, 83.

Schools for colored children, 84.

Incompetent teachers of, 84.
Normal classes for, 84.

Statistics of schools for colored child-
ren, 84, 85.

Colored teachers, 85.

Statistical table, by counties, 85, 86.
List of school officers, 85, 86.
African children, exclusion of, 89.

Alaska, 336, 337.

Area and population of, 336.

Different races in, 336.

Extract from Mr. W. H. Dall's "Alaska

and its Resources," 336.

American University:

Report upon the need for, 418-420.
Comparison of American and foreign
universities, 419.

Inferiority of American institutions,
419.

Government provision for schools of

agriculture and the mechanic arts,

420.

Names of committee reporting, 221.
Argentine Republic:

Progress of education in, 370, 371.
President Sarmiento's efforts, 370, 371.
Activity of the Department in estab-
lishing schools, 370.

Coöperation of the provinces, 370.
Statistical returns of education by
provinces, 371.

Number of children out of school, 371.
Proportion of immigrants who cannot
read, 371.
Normal schools, 371.
Evening schocls, 371.

Infant, or Kindergarten schools, 371.
Subsidies granted during the year for
education, 371.

School prospects brightening, 87.
List of State officers, 87.
Circuit superintendents, 87..
Australia, education in, 381-383.

Request for exchange of documents,
381.

Summary of educational statistics, 381.
Remarks concerning statistics and at-
tendance, 381, 382.

Aid to destitute children, 382.
Proportion of destitute children among
different denominations, 382.

Direct gain to teachers by destitute
children, 382.

School books, 383.

Evening schools, 383.

Training of teachers, 383.

Salaries augmented by results, 383.
Pupil teachers, 383.

Surveillance of teachers, 383.
Austria, education in, 380, 381.

Educational advancement, 380.
National compulsory education, 380,
381.

Bengal, India, education in, 377-380.
Increased number of schools since
1855, 378.

Statistics of expenditure on English
education, 378.

Dissatisfaction at the allotment of
educational funds, 378, 379.

Extracts from speeches reported in the
Hindoo Patriot of July 1870, 379, 380.
California, 87-97.

Statistics, 87.

Establishment of school fund, 88.
First free public school, 88.
Organization of school board in San
Francisco, 88.

Revision of school law, 88.
First State report issued, 88.

First bequest to school fund, 88.

First State teachers' convention, 88.
First State institute, 88.

California-Continued.

Establishment of "California Teach-
er," 88.

State school law, 88, 89.

Board of education composed of, 88.
Duties of State superintendent, 88, 89.
Duties of county superintendents, 88.
Exclusion of races from schools, 89.
Teachers' certificates, 89.
Taxes for schools, 89.
School fund composed of, 89.
State Normal School, 89.
Statistics of, (table.)
Graded certificates given, 89.
Cosmopolitan schools, 90.
Evening schools, 90.

State Industrial School, 90.
Management of, 90.

Institution for Deaf, Dumb, aud Blind,
90.

University college, 90.
State University, 90, 91.

Resolution admitting ladies into, 91.
Santa Clara College, 91.
University of the Pacific, 91.
St. Mary's College, 91.

Pacific Methodist College, 91.
St. Vincent's College, 91.
St. Augustine College, 91.
Laurel Hall Boarding School, 91.
San Rafael College, 91.
St. Ignatius College, 92.
University School, 92.
Union College, 92.
Sonoma College, 92.
San Francisco, 92, 93.

City superintendent, 92.
Statistical summary, 92.

Policy of renting school buildings,

Chinese migration-Continued.
Adaptation of the Chinese to the West,
425.

Checks to immigration, 425.
Government action, 425.

Atrocities of the coolie trade, 425.
Wise and humane legislation, 426.
Convention between the Chinese and
other nations, 426.

Thirteenth and fourteenth amend-
ments as affecting Chinese, 426.
Opening of Chinese ports for trade,

426.

Chinese preference for America, 426.
The principle of no caste, 426.
Political bearings of Chinese immi-
gration, 426, 427.

Sympathy of the Chinese with our in-
stitutions, 427.

Industrial opposition to immigration,
427.

Danger from introduction of pagan-
ism, 427.

Susceptibility of the Chinese to Chris-
tian teaching, 428.

Results of Chinese immigration, 428,
429.

Particulars of policy to be pursued,
429.

Adoption of American language, dress,
habits, and homes, 429.

Predominant characteristics of Chi-
nese; isolation to be deprecated,
429, 430.

Adoption of American manners, 430.
Admission to citizenship, 430.

Importance of education, 430.

Importance of right popular senti-
ment, 430.

Generosity the highest wisdom, 431.
Lessons of history in regard to com-
petitive labor, 431.

Availability of an educational policy,
431.

The Chinese accustomed to acquire
knowledge, 431.

Eagerness to learn the American lan-
guage, 431.

Scarcity of schools for Chinese, 431.
Importance of training the children,
431, 432.

Great importance of understanding
our language, 432.

Difficulties in acquiring it, 432.
Text-books adapted to the Chinese,

433.

Educational instrumentalities, 433.
Duty of the Government, 433, 434.
Fruits of experience in education of
Chinamen, 434.

Religious and philanthropic efforts,

434.

Evening schools, 434.

Colorado, 318, 319.

Organization of Territory.

Little information received of schools
in, 318.

Letter from superintendent, 318.
Letter from citizen of Trinidad, 318

319.

List of names of acting visitors of State,
100, 101.

Statistics by counties, 102.

Secretary of board of education, 100.

Dakota, 319, 320.

Organization of Territory.

Report of superintendent under new
school law, 319.

Partial summary of school statistics,
319.

Lack of school teachers, 319.
Increase of school fund, 319.
Appreciation of schools by the people,
319.

Improvement of school-houses, 320.
School law, features of, 320.

Addresses of State and county super-
intendents, 320.

Statistical details by counties, 320.
Deaf and dumb, education of, 371-373.
Recognition of their right to instruc-
tion, 371, 372.

System in the United States, 372.
German or articulating method, 372.
Columbia Institute at Washington,
372, 373.

Deaf and Dumb-Continued.

Success of students in academic course,
373.

Employments of graduates, 373.
Neglect of instruction of deaf and
dumb in certain States, 372.

Delaware, 103-105.

No report issued by, 103.

Absence of school supervision, 103.
Opinions of educators in the State,
103.

Proportion of illiterates in the State,
103.

Taxation for schools optional, 103.
Petition of colored people to legisla-
ture, 103.

Schools in Milford, 103.

Abstract of school laws, 104.
Wilmington, 104, 105.

Establishment of public schools in, 104.
Superiority of lady teachers, 104.
Statistical summary, 104, 105.
State Normal University, 105.

District of Columbia, 312-317.

School organizations in, 312.

Washington, division of, for school
purposes, 312.

Duties of school officers, 312.
Provisions for graded and evening
schools, 312.
School age, 312.

City superintendent, 312.
Schools and teachers, 312.
German language and music, 312.
Seats and pupils, 312.

Appropriations, 312.

Joint resolution of the city councils,
312.

Colored schools of Washington and
Georgetown, 312.

Superintendent Newton's statement
of, 312.

Private schools, 312.

J. Russell Barr's statement of, 314.
Summary of white school statistics,

Austria, technical and scientific

schools in, 440.

Bohemia, technical schools in, 440.
Hungary, trade and industrial schools
in, 440.

Bavaria, polytechnic, scientific, and
industrial schools in, 440, 441.
Prussia, technical schools in, 441.
Saxony, technical and polytechnic
schools in, 441.

Switzerland, technical and polytech-
nic schools in, 441, 442.
Belgium, commercial and technical
schools in, 442.

Italy, technical education in, 442.
Northern Europe, technical and scien-
tific education in, 442.

France, technical education in, 442,
443.

Great Britain, increase of technical
education in, 443, 444.

Great Britain, interest of workingmen
in technical education, 443, 444.
Great Britain, coöperative societies in,
444.

French exposition and English arti-
sans, 444.

Creuzot, technical training in, 445.
Belgian educators, Congress of, 445.
Art instruction, influence of, 445.
Factory system, dangers of, 445, 446.
Indian Orchard Mill, schools at, 446.
Dr. Lyon Playfair, remarks of, 446,
447.

Circular of inquiry by Commissioner,

447.

Amount, character, &c., of labor, 448,
453, 458, 461, 463, 465.

General effect of education on labor,
448, 452, 458, 461, 463, 465.
Effect of rudimentary education, 449,
453, 459, 463, 466.

Effect of further knowledge, 449, 454,
459, 461, 464, 466.

Specific influence of education on in-
vention, &c., 450, 459, 462, 464, 466.
Choice between educated and ignorant

laborers, 450, 456, 460, 462, 564, 466.
Choice between educated and ignorant
foremen, &c., 451, 456, 460, 462, 465,
466.

Effect of mental culture on morals,
habits, &c., 451, 457, 460, 562, 465,
466.

Answers by employers, 448-452, 461-
463.

Answers by workmen, 452-458, 463-
465.

Answers by observers, 458-461, 465-
467.

Educational conventions, 406–418.

National teachers' association, 406, 407.
National university, 406.

Universal system of weights and
measures, 406.
Primary education, 406.
National education, 406, 407.

Music in schools, 407.

School discipline, 407.

American normal association, 407-408.

The human body a study for the
teacher, 408.

American institute of instruction,
409-410.

Poetry of education, 409.
Education in Prussia, 409.
The Bible in schools, 409, 410.
Compulsory school attendance, 410.
Central college association, 410-411.
What colleges ought to be, 411.
Christian education, 411.
Resolution to correspond with the
Bureau of Education, 411.
Kansas State teachers' association, 411.
Ohio State teachers' association, 411,
412.

Normal schools and county super-
vision, 412.

Moral culture in common schools,412.
Utility of the ideal, 412.
The Bible in schools, 412.
Michigan association of county super-
intendents' 412-414.

Relations of the National Govern-
ment to education, 412, 413.
Superintendents' records, 413.
School discipline, 413.

County teachers' institutes, 413.
Compulsory attendance, 414.
Motive powers of our educational
machinery, 414.

Michigan State teachers' association,
414, 415.

School discipline, 414.

Indiana State collegiate association,

415.

Wisconsin teachers' association, 415.
Virginia educational meeting of
county superintendents, 415.
Advantages of education, 415.
Prussia an example of, 415.
New York State teachers' association,
416.

Inadequate pay of lady teachers, 416.
Improved methods in education, 416.
School discipline, 416.

California State teachers' institute,
416, 417.

Importance of education, 416.

High character of teachers, 416, 417.
Drawing and music, 417.

Corporal punishment, 417.
Illustrations in teaching, 417.
Connecticut State teachers' associ-
ation, 418.

England, educational progress in, 373-377.
Great advances made since 1869, 373.
Governmental supervision of schools,
373, 374.

Endowed schools, 374.
School laws, 374-377.
Council of education, 374.
Truancy, 374.

Compulsory attendance, 374.
Definition of the public school, 375.
How schools are to be supplied, 375.
Duties of school boards, 375, 376.
Constitution of school boards, 376.