S1<X'T10NAL TRANSACTIONS.— K, L 403 



Tlie carposporio frond has now been found both in the procarpial stage 

 and with ripe carpospores, and can be distinguished from the tetrasporic frond. 

 The procarps are developed in succession, and each }ias a long trichogyne. 

 Carpospores are produced in pear-shaped cystocarps with ostioles, similar to 

 those in Bhodi/menia palmata, Grev. 



Although the antheridial fronds have not yet been found, spermatia have 

 been seen attached to the trichogynes. 



EXHIBITS DURING THE MEETING: BOTANICAL 



SPECIMENS. 

 Botanical specimens were exhibited in a room near' the Section 

 Room, and others were shown by members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union in the Education Offices, Albion Street. 



SECTION I EDUCATION. 



(For references to the publication elsewhere of communications entered in the 

 following list of transactions, see p. 410.) 



Thursday, September 7. 



1. Presidential Address by Sir Richard Gregoky, on Educational 



and School Science (see p. 204), followed by a discussion. 



2. Mr. R. C. Moore. — Advanced Instruction in Elementary Schools. 

 For a number of years various voluntary attempts have been made to provide, 



to some extent, a rather more advanced education for the older or brighter 

 children in the elementary schools. The Education Act, 1918, however, made 

 it the duty of Local Education Authorities to provide such instruction. 



Before advanced instruction can be given it is necessary that all the children 

 should have a sound preparatory education. When the children have received 

 this preparatory education, then advanced instruction of various kinds should 

 be given to suit the abilities and needs of the pupils. 



The advanced instruction should be given, as far as possible, under con- 

 ditions which allow of a proper grading of the pupils. The teachers should, be 

 highly qualified, and suitable equipment and provision for practical work should 

 be supplied. 



The advanced instruction can be given at central schools or classes, or at the 

 schools at which the pupils are already in attendance, or by the partial use of 

 each of these methods. Local conditions will have to be taken into account in 

 deciding which method is to be adopted. 



It will be necessary to co-ordinate the advanced instruction in the elementary 

 schools with the work of the secondary and technical schools, so as to allow of 

 the passage from one type of school to the other of those pupils who have 

 the necessary ability and attainments and who desire to obtain higher education. 



Friday, September 8. 



3. Report of the Committee upon Trai)ivng in Citizenship. (See 



p. 337.') 



4. Report of the Committee upon The Teaching of Geography . 



5. Joint Discussion with Section J upon Psychoanalysis and the 



School, 

 (a) Dr. C. W. Kimmins. 

 The need of assistance in dealing with the problem of the child who does 

 'lot respond to normal methods of instruction — Children's dreams — The introvert 

 and the extravert — The freedom of the child ; the Montessori influence — The 

 danger of the suppression of strong instinctive tendencies in methods of 

 instruction — The necessity of the psychoanalysis of the teacher — The cultivation 

 of self-discipline in the child — Day drearjiing apd the flight from reality. 



1922 I? 1 



