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J. T. Wheeler, in a paper on Improvement of Teachers in Service, discussed 

 the purpose or aim, the organization of subject content, outlines of a suggestive 

 plan, and supervision and stimulation of improvement work. He defined the 

 aim of improvement of teachers in service as to bring to the teacher a realiza- 

 tion of his problems of instruction, to get him interested in solving these 

 problems, to arouse a community interest and spirit in his work, and to inspire 

 him to a high professional attitude. 



C. D. Jarvis, of the U. S. Bureau of Education, took up the Organization of 

 Teacher Training in Agriculture. The basis of this paper was a questionnaire 

 sent to the instructors in teacher training in all the colleges of agriculture and 

 to the officer in charge of the agriculture work in ten State departments, and 

 dealt with facilities for practice teaching, teacher training while in service, 

 certification of teachers, and relationship between teacher training and other 

 educatonal activities of the State. 



The first year under the Smith-Hughes Art was reviewed by L. S. Hawkins 

 of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Information was presented 

 as to the number and type of schools together with funds expended and avail- 

 able, as well as some of the problems confronting the vocational teaching sys- 

 tem and the possibilities in future work under this act 



The standing committee on relation of general science to agriculture made a 

 report based upon the stud; of 100 schools selected from all parts of the United 

 Stiitos. The committee on relations of the association to the National Society 

 for the Promotion of Vocational Education reported that satisfactory relations 

 had been established, and that the association would be henceforth represented 

 by a section in the meetings of the National Society, a pro gress report was 

 presented by the committee on rmcntlnl laboratory equipment for teaching 

 agriculture in secondary schools. 



( Mlicers elected for the ensuing year were as fellows: President! Dean Alfred 

 Vivian; vice president. K. EL Seald; -erretary treasurer. Dr. C. D. Jarvis; and 

 additional members of the executive committee, G. A. Works. R. D. Maltby. 

 and w. Q. Hummel. 



New Journals. — The Journal of General Physiology is being published la- 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, with Drs. Jacques Loeb and 

 W. J. V. Osterhout as editors. Its held is announced as " the explanation of 

 life phenomena on the basis of the physical and chemical constitution of living 

 matter." The initial number contains the following articles: On the Dynamics 

 of Photosynthesis, by W. J. V. Osterhout ami A. R. C. Haas; A Method of 

 studying Respiration, by W. J. V. Osterhout; The Antagonism Between Thy- 

 roid and Parathyroid Glands, and Further Proof of the Existence of a Specific 

 Tetany-Producing Substance in the Thymus Gland, both by E. Uhlenhuth ; 

 Difference in the Action of Radium on Green Plants in the Presence and Ah 

 sence of Light, by C. Packard: Amphoteric Colloids, I. and The Law Con- 

 trolling the Quantity of Regeneration in the Stem of BryophyUum rah/cinum, 

 both by J. Loeb; A Theory of the Mechanism of Disinfection, Hemolysis, and 

 Similar Processes, by S. C. Brooks; Reversal of Reaction by Means of Strych- 

 nine in Planarians and Starfish, by A. R. Moore; Light and the Muscle Tonus of 

 Insects: The Heliotropic Mechanism, by W. E. Garrey ; and Luteal <vils and 

 Hen-Feathering, by Alice M. Boring and T. H. Morgan. 



The Landsicotnan is being published in London as the journal of the Land 

 Army and the Women's Institutes. The initial number describes various 

 phases of these enterprises. 



The title of the Journal of the American Association of Instructors an<1 

 Investigator* kt Poultry Husbandry has been changed to Poultry Science. 



