Apeil 29, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



591 



Spi-ingfield, Mass., High School. He urged 

 the science teachers in secondary schools to 

 interest themselves in this national organi- 

 zation, and extended an especial invitation 

 to attend the anniversary meeting next 

 August. 



The closing session, Friday afternoon, 

 began with three round tables. The repre- 

 sentatives of union schools and academies 

 were led by Principal Thomas B. Lovell, of 

 the Niagara Falls High School, Normal 

 School teachers by Professor Howard Lyon, 

 of Oneonta, and College teachers by Pro- 

 fessor B. G. Wilder. 



Principal Frederick A. Vogt, of the Cen- 

 tral High School in Buffalo, introduced the 

 topic of ' Outdoor Science Work in Second- 

 ary Schools.' He outlined a number of 

 ways in which the ' laboratory method ' 

 may be most profitably employed in the 

 open air, and he contended that many 

 schools, especially in rural districts, are 

 neglecting this most fruitful and convenient 

 means of education and leaning too much 

 on the traditional gi'ind of the school book. 

 The discussion showed that out-door study 

 wherever it has grown to be a feature of 

 science courses is becoming more systematic 

 and rational than formerly. The demand 

 for better work in this line is met by special 

 courses in summer schools and by the 

 preparation of leaflets and guides such as 

 have been issued by the College of Agricul- 

 ture of Cornell University and many simi- 

 lar institutions. 



The following are the officers for 1S98 : 



President, Charles W. Hargitt, Syracuse 

 University. 



Vice-President, John F. Woodhull, 

 Teachers College, New York. 



Secretary and Treasurer, Franklin W. 

 Barrows, 45 Park Street, Buffalo, of Central 

 High School. 



Executive Council : 



Professor William Hallock, Columbia 

 University, New York. 



Miss Mary E. Dann, Girls' High School, 

 Brooklyn. 



Professor D. L. Bardwell, State Normal 

 School, Cortland. 



Dr. Charles W. Dodge; University of 

 Rochester. 



Principal Thomas B. Lovell, High School, 

 Niagara Falls. 



Professor W. C. Peckham, Adelphi Col- 

 lege, Brooklyn. 



Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Columbia 

 University, New York. 



Professor Le Eoy C. Cooley, Vassar Col- 

 lege, Poughkeepsie. 



Professor E. R. Whitney, High School, 

 Binghamton. 



Professor Irving P. Bishop, State Normal 

 School, Buffalo. 



Mr. Charles N. Cobb, Regents' OflQce, Al- 

 bany. 



Professor C. S. Prosser, Union University, 

 Schenectady. 



A more detailed report of the meeting is 

 published in The School Journal, New York, 

 for March 19th and 26th. Dr. Nichols' lec- 

 ture and Principal Vogt's paper are pub- 

 lished in later numbers of the same period- 

 ical. 



• Feanklin W. Barrows, 



Secretai-tj. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY 3WSEU3T, LONDON.* 

 Those who have visited the Natural His- 

 tory Museum recently and have marked the 

 admirable manner in which the specimens 

 are classified, labelled and arranged in the 

 gallery of mammalia will readily appreciate 

 how valuable an addition to the resources 

 of the student the improvments in the mode 

 of exhibition and the methods of mounting 

 specimens now in progress in the other 

 zoological galleries will afford when the 

 work is complete. As regards the mammals 

 the rearrangement is in a fairly finished 

 state, though of course the process of elimi- 

 * From the London Times. 



