UNITED STATES 83 



The congress held at Cincinnati in 1870, noted above, is counted as the 

 ist National prison reform congress. 



The reports of the standing committees of the association, presented at 

 the ist annual meeting, Jan. 1872 are published in: International con- 

 gress on the prevention and repression of crime, including penal and 

 reformatory treatment: preliminary report of the Commissioner. Wash- 

 ington, 1872. 8. p. 204-248. (42d Cong., 2d sess., Senate ex. doc. 

 no. 39.) 



Transactions of the [2d] National prison reform congress held at Balti- 

 more, Md., Jan. 1873; being the 2d annual meeting of the ... associa- 

 tion : in Report of the International penitentiary congress of London 

 held July 1872. Washington, 1873. 8. p. 305-493. (42d Cong., 3d sess., 

 House ex. doc. no. 185.) 



No congresses held in 1871, 1872, 1875, 1877-83. 



4th report of proceedings, ist annual report (2d series), [1883]. 

 New York, 1884. 4. 



Contains also reports of conferences of prison officials held in New York 



in 1883 and 1884. 



5th and 6th report of proceedings. 2d and 3d annual report (2d series), 

 with the reports of the National prison congresses in 1884 and in 

 1885. Boston, 1886. 8. 



Contains also report of a conference of prison officials held in Chicago in 



1884, separately paged. 



PROCEEDINGS of the annual congress . . . 1886-1904. Chicago, 1887- 

 90, 1893; Pittsburg, 1891-1905. 8. 



1886 has title Proceedings of the National prison congress. 1898 con- 

 tains proceedings of the regular congress at Indianapolis, 1898 and of 

 the adjourned meeting at New Orleans, Jan. 1899. 



Index to the reports of the National prison association, 1870, 1873, 

 1874, 1883-1904. Washington, 1906. 8. 



Pub. as one of the reports of the International prison commission. (59th 

 Cong., ist sess., Senate doc. no. 210.) Note the omission of the Trans- 

 actions of the New York congress of 1876. 

 Distribution. Apply to the Secretary. 



National Society for the Scientific Study of Education. 



Address. Secretary: Manfred J. Holmes, State Normal University, 

 Normal, 111. 



History. Organized in 1895 at the Denver meeting of the National Edu- 

 cational Association, as the National Herbart Society; reorganized in 

 1901 under present name. 



Object. Study and discussion of vital educational questions ; promotion of the scien- 

 tific spirit and method in dealing with the problems of education ; publication of a 

 body of valuable literature on topics of current and permanent educational interest. 



Meetings. Two each year, one in connection with the annual meeting of the National 



