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children, local language, naval, and primary schools for Japanese children. The number of children is at present forty-five.

The Language School Department is again divided into two sections, one for the study of the Japanese language by native students and the other for the study of the native language by Japanese students. The students in both sections are trained with the object of public service or private occupations in Formosa. Some native students in upper classes of Japanese Language section have been given an elementary technical education, with special reference to the railway and telegraph service, and the experiment has proved successful. There are at present 91 students in the Japanese Language section, 16 students in the Railway and Telegraph section, and 25 students in the Native Language section.

There are also three auxiliary schools appended to the Central Language School. The first auxiliary school, with 251 scholars, is for the benefit of native young people, and is designed at the same time to show a model of elementary education in Formosa and to furnish the students of the Normal School Department with an opportunity to practise the art of teaching.

The second auxiliary school is for the benefit of Japanese children, and consists of a primary course of six years, a supplementary course of two years, and a middle school course of five years. The number of scholars at present is 339 in the primary course, 27 in the supplementary course, and 177 in the middle school course.

The third auxiliary school gives to native girls an elementary education and a training in handicraft. There are 131 scholars in it at present.

Besides the Central Education Institution described above, a series of local educational institutions has been established in the important places on the island. Thus there is an ordinary normal school in each of the three cities, Taipeh, Taichu, and Tainan. The students in these normal schools are all natives who are to become assistant teachers in primary schools for native children, while the students in the Normal School Department of the Central Language School are to become principals and other important teachers in primary schools. The number of students in the ordinary normal school at present is 298, there being 94 in Taipeh, 124 in Taichu, and 80 in Tainan.

The primary schools for Japanese children are established in the more important places where there is a Japanese population. There are 11 of them, with a total of 1,342 scholars.

Primary schools for native children are distributed all over the island, there being 121 at present, with 16,034 scholars.