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of the Committee (at least so far as tliere has been an opjjortunity 

 to learn their opinion) believe that the publication of the book 

 will be serviceable to our cause, it is a question whether the 

 Society should assume any further responsibility than is involved 

 in an expression of approval of the general design. 



The address to the Colleges has been completed and adopted 

 by the Committee ; and, as authorized by the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Society, there have been printed seven hundred and 

 fifty copies. 



There have also been printed under the same authorization 

 seven hundred and fifty copies of a letter to the presidents of the 

 Colleges; these, together with the two reports of the Committee 

 and the last President's address, accompany the address to the 

 Colleges. 



These are ready to be mailed, and will be sent out, after the 

 busy time of the holidays is past, to the nearly four hundred Uni- 

 versities and Colleges of the country. 



The address has already been published, and commented on by 

 a number of the daily papers, and it will appear in the next 

 numbers of the " Academ}^ " and of the " Educational Review." 



A place on the programme of the American Institute of Instruc- 

 tion, at its meeting in Saratoga, in last July, was given to a 

 member of the Committee, who discussed the place of Natural 

 Science in the Educational Course. 



A very cordial invitation was sent to the Committee to appear 

 before the Convention of College Officers of Ohio, at Cleveland, 

 in the week following Christmas, and as that is not possible, the 

 subject will be presented by Prof. F. P. Whitman, of Adel- 

 bert College, to whom the Committee would express "their grate- 

 ful acknowledgments. 



The Committee believe that the cause of science in the schools is 

 making progress. In all educational circles the subject is attracting 

 increased interest. A very gratifying evidence of sympathy with 

 the views of the Society is to be found in the unanimous adoption, 

 by the Association of Colleges in New England, of the following 

 resolution, moved by President Eliot, of Harvard, and seconded 

 by President Carter, of Williams : — 



" The Association of Officers of Colleges in New England 

 desires to support the endeavor of the American Society of 



