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While we are in the affiliating business, it seems to me 

 that we might carry the thing jnst a little farther. I will 

 give a concrete illustration of what I have in mind. We 

 have at the Normal Universitr at Xormal. a science club, 

 consisting of the members of the science faculty, and not 

 more than forty student members, who are elected to mem- 

 bership on the recommendation of faculty members. For 

 the past three years, this club has sent a student delegate 

 to the meetings of the State Academy, paying his or her 

 expenses. One such delegate is here today. The next 

 meeting of our local club will be devoted to a report on the 

 Academy meeting, in which this student delegate will be 

 the principal speaker. Xow, there are science clubs like 

 this in many high schools, and they could be organized in 

 many other high schools. There are small scientific organ- 

 izations among the grown people in some of the larger 

 cities of the State. Why should not all such organizations 

 be affiliate^! in some way with the State Academy. I be- 

 lieve that we should have a permanent committee of three 

 on affiliations, whose duty should be. first to work out a 

 plan for such affiliations and. second, to seek to bring about 

 as many such affiliations as possible. 



Education in science is so vital to the general welfare of 

 every other phase of science, that it seems to me that every 

 member of the Academy should have some interest in the 

 problems of science education in the secondary schools. 

 Therefore. I believe that the Academy should have a 

 permanent committee of three on science education in the 

 secondary schools. It should be the function of this com- 

 mittee to make annual reports to the Academy on the 

 status of secondary school science, and on occasions to call 

 on the Academy for cooperation and help in the solution 

 of certain problems. 



J. L. Pricer^ Secretary. 



