ROYAL Academy of Music, 340; foundation of, in 1822, 340; original site of, 340; charter granted to, 1830, 340; number of students at, in 1837, 340; and in 1897, 340. ROYAL Academy of Painting, 350; Crown represented at dinner of, for the first time in 1851, 350; speech of Sir Charles Eastlake at, 350; and reply of the Prince Consort, 350; visitors to Exhibition of, in 1837, 358; and in 1897, 358. ROYAL College of Music, 340; founded in 1875 as a training school, 340; reformed in 1882, 340; charter granted to, in 1883, 340; present endowment of, 341; scholarships at, 341; opened by H. R. H. Princess of Wales, 341. ROYAL Society, Queen's signature in register of, 321. RURAL population, decrease in, during last twenty years, 325. S SANITARY reform, reduction in death-rate due to, 394; work of John Simon in connection with, 395; and of the Budds and Dr Snow, 395. SAVINGS banks, deposits in, doubled in ten years ending 1896, 45. SCHOOL Board, instances of successful, boys, 156; at universities and in Civil Service examinations, 156; and of girls, 157; at Girton College and elsewhere, 157. SCHOOL Board children, increase in number of, under the Free Education Act, 1891, 137; numbers of, for five years preceding Act, 269,903, 138; for five years succeeding Act, 521,860, 138. SCIENCE and art, slowness of State recognition of, 320. SCIENCE and Art Department, grants made by, to schools, 138. SCIENTIFIC Corps, the, engineers and artillery, 305; recent recognition of rights of, in army, 305. SCULPTORS, Alfred Stevens, effigy of Wellington by, 361; Hamo Thornycroft and Sir E. Boehm, works of, 361; growing popularity of English, 361. SCULPTURE, our climate not favourable to exhibitions of, 361; progress of, in England, notwithstanding, 361. SEASIDE resorts, imitation of continental examples at, 208. SECONDARY schools, estimated proportion of population educated at, does not exceed 2.5 per 1000, 145; proportion very variable, 145; from 1.1 per 1000 in Lancashire, 145; to 13.5 in Bedfordshire, 145; private, efficient service rendered to education by, 146; plea for State help to private, 146; of the great city companies, 149; especially those of the drapers', the goldsmiths' and the grocers', 149. SKATING rinks, shock to old-fashioned ideas caused by, 195; first revolt of sons and daughters of middle class illustrated at, 195. SLANEY, Colonel, motion by, for enquiry into health of towns, 389. SMALLER endowed schools, old practice of farming out, 140; evil effects of, 141; vigorous dealing of corporations with the practice, 141; closing of, recommended by the commissioners, 141.