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high school courses. It is recognized that if this be wisely clone, 

 the congested condition of the \vork in High School and College 

 will be greatly relieved, the student will be farther advanced in 

 the course at any giv-en age, and will possess a better-trained 

 mind. 



Better teaching, of course, is much neeiied, but it is an encour- 

 aging fact that a larger number of good teachers is available every 

 year. We are beginning to see efforts being made to establish 

 these improvements in the schools. These attempts need encour- 

 agement from every one who is connected with this department of 

 work. It is possible for everv member of the Society to do some- 

 thing towards furthering the progress of this movement toward 

 better things. A great deal may be done by friendly talks with 

 Principals, Head-Masters, and Science Teachers in one's own 

 neighborhood. 



Your Committee have been doing that in addition to their con- 

 certed work, and we would respectfully and earnestly suggest 

 that every member of the Society do that much for the cause to 

 which all of us give our life work. 



Samuel F. Clarke, 



Chair ?na)i. 



Report accepted and committee continued. 



Professors vSidney Smith, Pillsbury, and Sedgwick reported 

 successful results already reached through the etibrts of the Com- 

 mittee on Science Teaching. 



The President appointed a Committee for the Election of Offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year, as follows: Prof. E. L. Mark, Dr. E. 

 A. Andrews, Prof. W. H. Brewer, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Prof. 

 W. T. Sedgwick. 



Addresses on Marine Biological Laboratories were given as 

 follows : 



Dr. E. a. Andrews, Johns Hopkins Universitv — "A 

 Marine Station in Jamaica." 



Dr. Bashford Deax, Columbia College — "The Marine 

 Laboratories of Europe." Illustrated by stereopticon. 



Prof. C. O. Whitman, University of Chicago — '' The Out- 

 look for a Marine Observatory at Woods Holl." 



