March 26, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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cuse Univ.; C. D. Howe, Univ. of Toronto; 

 F. E. Lloyd, McGill Univ.; C. O. RosendaU, 

 Univ. of Minn. 



V. E. Shelford, Chairman 

 University of Illinois 



THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON MATHE- 

 MATICAL REQIREMENTS 



At the last meeting of the General Educa- 

 tion Board in !N"ew York on February 28, the 

 sum of $25,000 was appropriated for the use 

 of the National Committee on Mathematical 

 Requirements to continue its work for the year 

 beginning July 1, 1920. 



A preliminary report on " The Reorganiza- 

 tion of the First Courses in Secondary School 

 Mathematics " was published for the Com- 

 mittee by the U. S. Bureau of Education about 

 the middle of February. It has been distrib- 

 uted widely. Copies of the report have gone 

 to all the state departments of education, to 

 all county and district superintendents in the 

 United States and to all city superintendents 

 in cities and towns of over 2,500 population. 

 It has been sent to all the normal schools in 

 the country, to some 1,500 libraries and to 

 almost 300 periodicals and newspapers. In 

 addition it has been sent to about 4,500 indi- 

 viduals, the names and addresses of which were 

 furnished the Bureau of Education by the 

 National Committee. This list of individuals 

 consists chieiiy of teachers of mathematics and 

 principals of schools throughout the country. 

 Additions to this mailing list to secure future 

 copies of the reports of the committee can 

 still be made. Individuals interested in secur- 

 ing these reports should send their names and 

 addresses to the chairman of the committee 

 (J. W. Young, Hanover, N. H.). 



A subcommittee consisting of Professor C. 

 N. Moore, of the University of Cincinnati, 

 Mr. W. F. Downey, of Boston, and Miss Eula 

 "Weeks, of St. Louis, has been appointed to 

 prepare a report for the Committee on Elective 

 Courses in Mathematics for Secondary Schools. 

 Any material or suggestions for this report 

 may be sent directly to the chairman of the 

 subcommittee. 



The recent work of the national committee 



had a place on the program of the organiza- 

 tion meeting of the National Council of 

 Teachers of Mathematics held in Cleveland 

 on February 24 in connection with the meeting 

 of the Department of Superintendence of the 

 National Education Association. The meet- 

 ing for the organization of the National Coun- 

 cil was enthusiastically attended. A con- 

 stitution was adopted and officers and an ex- 

 ecutive committee elected. Mr. J. A. Foberg, 

 of the National Committee on Mathematical 

 Requirements, was elected secretary-treasurer 

 of the National Council. 



Recent meetings of teachers at which the 

 reports of the national committee have been 

 discussed have taken place in New York City, 

 Cincinnati, San Francisco, Cleveland, Okla- 

 homa, Philadelphia, Springfield (Mass.), Prov- 

 idence (R. I.). Meetings in April will take 

 place in Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan 

 and Kentucky. 



THE NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE AND THE NEW YORK STATE 

 EXPERIMENT STATION 



The State College of Agriculture at Ithaca 

 and the State Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Geneva have now become formally 

 affiliated. Each will retain its separate organi- 

 zation and carry on its own appropriate 

 work; in addition provision is made for some- 

 what closer correlation, for ready exchange 

 of all facilities of research and experimenta- 

 tion, and for more frequent conferences. To 

 these ends the trustees of Cornell University 

 have appointed to the staff of the college eight 

 persons on the stafP of the station at Geneva: 

 Whitman H. Jordan, director; R. J. Ander- 

 son, chemist; Robert S. Breed, bacteriologist; 

 R. C. Collinson, chemist; U. P. Hendrick, 

 horticulturist; Percival J. Parrott, '06, ento- 

 mologist; Fred C. Stewart, '98, botanist; and 

 L. L. Van Slyke, specialist in fertilizers. And 

 reciprocally the board of control has appointed 

 to the Geneva staff six members of the agri- 

 cultural faculty: Professors Chandler, Emer- 

 son, Herrick, Lyon, Reddick, and Stocking. 



The Cornell Alumni Weekly says: "This 

 closer relationship promises benefits not only 

 to the college, particularly in enlarging the 



