Abstract
IN 1881 Mr. Mundella, then Vice-President of the Council, and consequently responsible for the policy of the Board of Education, with full knowledge as a manufacturer of the great growth, since the Franco-German war of 1870, of manufacturing industry in all parts of Germany, and sensible of the increasing unrest in British industry caused thereby, induced the Government of the day to appoint a Royal Commission “to inquire into the instruction of the industrial classes of certain foreign countries in technical and other subjects for the purpose o comparison with that of the corresponding classes in this country, and into the influence of such instruction on manufacturing and other industries at home and abroad.” The members of the Commission were chosen from representatives of important industries and others engaged in scientific education. They undertook an extensive and exhaustive inquiry into the conditions and range of the teaching of pure and applied science in the chief European countries and in the United States, and visited also the Universities and colleges and some of the chief school and workshops of the United Kingdom. After three years' investigation they produced in 1884 an exceedingly full and valuable report, which was widely circulated in this and other countries.
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