a The work in science is included in language lessons.

This covers the entire work in language, and includes reading, spelling, writing, language lessons, and grammar.

c Includes reading, spelling, language lessons, and grammar. This is the minimum time given to the subject. See foot-note k, page 393. d These figures include both language lessons and grammar.

23

24 25

22 Brooklyn, N. Y

New York, N. Y. e..
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Providence, R. I.

26 Charleston, S. C.

27 Memphis, Tenn

28 Richmond, Va..

29 Milwaukee, Wis. d.

TABLE 9.-Time allotted to HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES in the several grades of the public elementary schools of certain cities.

TABLE 10.—Time allotted to GEOGRAPHY in the several grades of the public elementary schools of certain cities.

a Including the study of the phenomena of vapor in its different forms and effects.

b Including the phenomena of contour, its canses and effects, or elementary physical geography and geology.

c Physical geography. d The time here given is the minimum to be devoted to the subject. See foot-note k, page, 393,

40

3

40

5

20

1

20

40

40

21

40

2호

40

40

2

40

18

39

39

39

2

39

31

36

31 36

36 31

36

36

1% 40

21% 40

270 40

40

40

TABLE 11.-Time allotted to ARITHMETIC in the several grades of the public elementary schools of certain cities.

NOTE.-The time given to the four elementary rules, viz, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, is indicated by *; to fractions, by t; to compound quantities, by ; to decimal operations, including interest, by §.

a Including operations in abstract and denominate numbers, both integral and fractional. b Including fractional denominate numbers.

c Involving fractional parts.