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\V. R. Warner, Presidentof theWarnerand 

 Swasey Company, Vice-president of the Sec- 

 tion for Mechanical Science and Engineering. 



leadership in introducing manual train- 

 ing in the schools, chose as the sub- 

 ject of his address ' The Science of 

 Education,' and one of the most im- 

 portant transactions of the association 

 was the establishment of a section of 

 education. A similar section of the 

 British Association, established several 



years ago, has proved to be of much 

 value, and there is reason to believe 

 that this section, which begins au- 

 spiciously with Dr. Elmer E. Brown, 

 U. S. commissioner of education, as 

 chairman, will accomplish much for 

 tlie advancement of education as a sci- 

 ence, for the teaching of science in the 

 schools and colleges and for the im- 

 provement of educational administra- 

 tion in our schools, colleges and uni- 

 versities. 



The section last established was one 

 for physiology and experimental medi- 

 cine, which at the present meeting 



Charles A. Conant, Treasurer of the Mor- 

 ton Trust Company, Vice president for the 

 Section for Social and Economic Science. 



Simon Flexner, Director of the Laborato- 

 lies of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, Vice-president for the Section of 

 Physiology and Experimental Medicine. 



cooperated with the national societies 

 devoted to physiology, anatomy, bac- 

 teriology and psychology, and held a 

 special session for the discussion of 

 ' Protozoa as Factors in the Diseases 

 of Animals and Plants.' It is also 

 noteworthy that for the first time, at 

 least in recent years, a representa- 

 tive of the medical sciences was presi- 

 dent of the association, thus giving 

 recognition to the fact that medicine 



