192 SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS. 



The full Committee on the "•Journal of Morpholog}'^ " being — 

 A. Hyatt, 

 W. T. Sedgwick, 

 E. L. Mark. 



The Nominating Committee recommended the following per- 

 sons as officers for the ensuing year : — 



President. — H. Newei.i. Martin. 

 Vice- rrcsidents. — Samuel F. Clarke, 



William North Rice, 

 R. Ramsay Wright. 

 Secretary. — IIexry H. Donaldson. 

 Treasurer. — Wm. T. Sedgwick. 



Members of Executive Cojnmittee frotii the Society at 

 Large. — Wm. Librey, Jr., Wm. M. Davis. 



They were duly elected. 



The Committee on Conference, appointed at the previous 

 session, was instructed to report at the uext meeting of the Society 

 in 1890. 



In behalf of the Committee on Science Teaching in the Schools, 

 Samuel F. Clarke made a report, which was discussed by para- 

 graphs, and finally adopted in the following form : — 



The Committee on Science Teaching in tlie Schools beg 

 leave to submit the following report : — 



An edition of several thousand copies of the Report adopted 

 at the Baltimore meeting has been published, and most of them 

 have been distributed. 



Many of the dailj' papers and periodicals, scientific, educa- 

 tional, and general, have given more or less extended notices of it. 



We have secured the puljlicatiou of a pamphlet on .Science 

 Teaching in the Schools, by D. C. Heath & Co., of l^oston, as 

 one of their series of Educational Monographs. This pamphlet 

 contains the address delivered by Professor W illiam Xortii Rice 

 before this .Society at the New Haven meeting, the l^eport of this 

 Committee presented to you last year, and a detailed statement of 

 the work in Natural Science prescribed for the Public .Schools 

 in Middletown, Conn., where the Board of Education has recently 

 adopted a comse of study based on the principles announcecl in 

 our Report. 



