1 64 SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS. 



the grammar schools, will enable physical geography and physi- 

 ology to be intelligently studied in the early years of the high- 

 school course. 



For the scholars in the English course in the high school, there 

 will naturally be more advanced and systematic instruction in 

 chemistry, physics, and zoology, and also instruction in geology 

 and astronomy. But the classical students may, with propriety, 

 leave these studies until the}' reach them in the college course. 

 The scientific instruction they will have received in the primary 

 and grammar schools, and the study of the three branches above 

 specified in their high-school course, will be sufficient to preserve 

 that natural and wholesome sympathy with nature, the loss of 

 which is now the main obstacle to the successful stud}' of Natural 

 Science in the colleges. 



II. 



The methods which the Society should adopt to give effect to 

 its recommendations. 



Something, we believe, can be accomplished by making proper 

 representations before some of the leading educational organi- 

 zations. We would accordingly recommend that a delegate from 

 this Society be appointed to present the subject before each of the 

 following bodies at its next meeting : — 



1. The Annual Convocation of the University of the State of 

 New York. 



2. The New England Society of College Presidents. 



3. The New England Association of College Officers and 

 Preparatory Teachers. 



4. The National Educational Association. 



5. The American Institute of Learning. 



6. The Association of College Presidents of the Middle States. 



We recommend that a committee be appointed at this meeting, 

 whose duty shall be to appoint a delegate to each of the above- 

 named organizations, and to arrange with the officers of those 

 organizations to secure a hearing for the delegates. We further 

 recommend that the travelling expenses of such delegates be paid 

 by the Society. 



In view of the fact that in most of the States tlie arrangement 



