190 



POPULAR SCIENCE MOST ELY. 



NDi&N TETRRITOR 



.UlfMBiiUVEft P* 4 _ 



ARKAN SAS 



Map of Texas showing Regions ravaged by this Bolj.worm in 1903. 



this investigation and the means of 

 control which the work of the depart- 

 ment has shown to be most feasible are 

 detailed in Farmers' Bulletin No. 189 

 relating to the cotton boll weevil, and 

 in Farmers' Bulletin No. 191 relating 

 to the cotton bollworm, from which 

 publications the two maps presented 

 herewith are taken. 



SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION IN 

 SCHOOLS. 



The council of the Royal Society has 

 adopted and submitted to the univer- 

 sities of the United Kingdom the fol- 

 lowing resolution: 



" That the universities be respect- 

 fully urged to consider the desirability 

 of taking such steps in respect of their 

 regulations as will, so far as possible, 

 ensure that a knowledge of science is 



recognized in schools and elsewhere as 

 an essential part of general education." 



The council has also appointed a 

 committee, which has drawn up a state- 

 ment in regard to the teaching of sci- 

 ence in schools, which reads as follows: 



" Notwithstanding efforts extending 

 over more than half a century, it still 

 remains substantially true^ that the 

 public schools have devised for them- 

 selves no adequate way of assimilating 

 into their system of education the prin- 

 ciples and methods of science. The 

 experience of ' modern sides ' and other 

 arrangements shows that it can hardly 

 be expected that, without external 

 stimulus and assistance, a type of 

 public school education can be evolved 

 which, whilst retaining literary cul- 

 ture, will at the same time broaden it 

 by scientific interests. On the other 

 hand, it is admitted that many stu- 



