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The Committee recommend the adoption of tlie following 

 resolutions : — 



Resolved^ That the Society of Naturalists reafHrms its adhesion 

 to the following propositions, formulated in the report on Science 

 Teaching in the Schools, adopted at the Baltimore meeting ; and 

 that it will use all means of influence at its command to secure 

 the modification of educational courses in accordance there- 

 with : — 



1. Instruction in Natural Science should commence in the 

 lowest grades of the Primary Schools, and should continue 

 throughout the curriculum. 



2. In the lower grades the instruction should be chiefly by- 

 means of object-lessons ; and the aim should be to awaken and 

 guide the curiosity of the child in regard to natural phenomena, 

 rather than to present systematized bodies of fact and doctrine. 



3. More systematic instruction in the Natural Sciences should 

 be given in the High Schools. 



4. While the sciences can be more extensively pursued in the 

 English course in the High Schools than is practicable in the 

 Classical course, it is indispensable for a symmetrical education 

 that a reasonable amount of time should be devoted to Natural 

 Science, during the four years of the High School course, by 

 students preparing for College. 



V An elementary (but genuine and practical) acquaintance 

 with some one or more departments of Natui"al Science should be 

 required for admission to College. 



Resolved^ That the Committee on Science Teaching in the 

 Schools be instructed to prepare a memorial to be presented to 

 the Faculty of each of the Colleges in the country, urging that 

 some work in Natural Science be added to the requirements for 

 admission to College, even though that addition should necessitate 

 some diminution of the requirements in Classics. 



Resolved^ That the Society express its approval of the prin- 

 ciples underlying the recommendation in the President's address, 

 in relation to the preparation of a collection of Science Primers ; 

 and that the Committee on Science Teaching be instructed to 

 consider the feasibility of the plan, and to report thereon at the 

 next meeting. 



Resolved^ That Professor Goodale, of Harvard University, 



