240 SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS. 



TENTH MEETING, AT PHILADELPHIA. 



December jy, 1S91. 



Hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 



AFl^ERNOON SESSION, 3.30 P.M. 



President Rice in the chair. 



Twenty-five members present. 



The .Secretary reported the recommendations of the Executixe 

 Committee. 



The following recommendation was read with the announce- 

 ment that it would be brought up for discussion at the next 

 session : — 



" The Executive Committee recouimends to the Society the 

 appropriation of $too for the ensuing year, towards the mainten- 

 ance of an American table at the Naples Zoological Station. 



" Also, that the Society memorialize the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, recommending that the Institution assume the responsibility 

 of maintaining an American table at the Naples Zoological 

 Station in future years." 



The President appointed 



G. Macloskie, 

 E. D. Cope, 

 G. Baur, 



a coir.mittee to nominate otiicers for the ensuing year. 



vS. F. Clarke and W. N. Rice, in behalf of the Committee on 

 Science Teaching in the .Schools, reported as follows: — 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE 

 TEACHING IN THE SCHOOLS. 



The Committee are glad to be able to report progress in several 

 directions. 



At the meeting of the Ohio College Association, December, 

 i8c)0. the following resolution was unanimously adopted: — 



