FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING. 23 



The question of the amendment involving the striking out of 

 the Hmitation on membership was now put and unanimously 

 carried. 



The motion adopting the recommendations thus amended was 

 put to vote and carried. 



The report as amended is as follows : 



COMMITTEE ON ASSISTANCE OF THE ACADEMY TO HIGH SCHOOLS 

 IN SCIENCE TEACHING. 



Your committee on aid to high schools was directed : 



1. To discover whether the Academy may be of assistance to 

 the high schools of the state in the teaching of science and, if so, 



2. To report at this meeting a plan of action. 



First, it appears to the committee that there exists a wide- 

 spread and increasing demand upon the part of high school 

 principals, cit}' superintendents, and the general public that high 

 school science be made more "practical" and less "theoretical" 

 and "technical."' Science teachers are being pressed upon, espe- 

 cially in the biological sciences in the lower years of the high 

 school, to include in their courses material which was not in- 

 cluded in their own formal trainingf, and which is not yet or- 

 ganized for high school teaching. It is believed that the Acade- 

 my may properly have a useful part in contributing to what 

 comes from this movement to modify the high school science 

 courses. It is also believed that something may be accomphshed 

 through this undertaking in the way of enlisting more high 

 school teachers as interested and active members of the Academy; 

 in short, that the general influence of the Academy in the inter- 

 est of popular science in the State of Illinois will be import- 

 antly extended thereby. 



As a plan of action, your committee recommends : 



1. That a committee of five be appointed to arrange for the 

 editorship and the publication of a series to be known as the 

 State Academy leaflets on high school science. 



2. That this committee prepare a list of subjects and a gen- 

 eral plan for the treatment of these subjects, and invite mem- 

 bers of the Academy to prepare mss. for these leaflets, subject to 

 the editorial revision of the committee. 



3. That this committee be authorized to make such arrange- 

 ment for the publication of this series as shall reheve the Acade- 

 my from financial responsibility in this connection, properly 

 safeguard the use of its name, and insure to the authors of such 



