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Object. To study the laws of breeding and to promote the improvement of plants 



and animals by the development of expert methods of breeding. 

 Meetings. At such times and places as the Council may decide. 

 Membership. About noo annual (dues, $2) ; 70 life ($20) ; 2 honorary. 



Publications. 



American Breeders' Association, v. I-III, 1905-1907. REPORT of 

 ist/2d-[4th] meeting. Washington, D. C. [1905-07]. 8. 



v. 1-2 have title Proceedings. 

 Distribution. For members only; no exchange. 

 The publication of a magazine is under consideration. 



American Conchological Society. 



Address. Secretary : Maxwell Smith, 987 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Committee to organize the society appointed by the Brooklyn Conchological 

 Club in May 1907; an independent movement with the same end in view 

 was started at the Boston meeting of the International Zoological Con- 

 gress in Aug. 1907. 



American Federation of Teachers of the Mathematical and the Natural 

 Sciences. 



Address. Secretary : C. R. Mann, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 

 History. Preliminary organization effected in 1907. 



Object. A more unified and concentrated effort on the part of its members to better 

 the teaching of mathematics and of the natural sciences. 



Meetings. Annually, during Convocation week. 



Membership. Consists entirely of associations, each being represented by delegates 

 at the meetings : Association of Teachers of Mathematics of the Middle States 

 and Maryland; New York State Science Teachers Association ; Central Associa- 

 tion of Science and Mathematics Teachers ; Association of Teachers of Mathe- 

 matics of New England ; Physics Teachers Association of Washington City ; 

 Missouri Society of Teachers of Mathematics and Science ; New Jersey State 

 Science Teachers Association ; Michigan Schoolmasters Club ; New England 

 Association of Chemistry Teachers ; New York Physics Club ; Indiana Associa- 

 tion of Science and Mathematics Teachers ; Association of Ohio Teachers of 

 Mathematics and Science. 



American Nature-Study Society. 



Address. Secretary-Treasurer: M. A. Bigelow, Teachers College, Colum- 

 bia University, New York City, N. Y. 

 History. Organized at Chicago, Jan. 2, 1908. 



Object. To promote critical investigations of all phases of nature-study (as dis- 

 tinguished from technical science) in schools, especially all studies of nature in 

 elementary schools ; to work for the establishment in schools of such nature-study 

 as has been demonstrated valuable and practicable for elementary education. 



a Publ.: Proceedings of the 4th-nth annual conference, 1899-1906, issued by New York 

 State Educational department (earlier University of the State of New York) as High 

 school department bulletins 7, 13, 17, 21, 25 and Secondary education bulletins 28, 31, 34. 



