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tion from the physical side, the physicist 

 can be appealed to then and there. That 

 enables one to know what data either dif- 

 ferent or more of the same or relevant sort 

 are to be sought. This is an advantage 

 quite apart from that of having on hand a 

 general stock, so to speak, of information 

 about the water such as the systematic 

 work of the physicist puts into the records. 



As yet the station funds have not made 

 possible a chemist and a chemical labora- 

 tory, but the addition of these in the not 

 distant future is anticipated. 



I may conclude by mentioning two other 

 extensions of undertaking that stand to the 

 credit of the present year. Miss Myrtle 

 Johnson, of the station staff and a uni- 

 versity student, has carried well forward a 

 mensuration-mathematical study of growth 

 and development of the zooids of the salpa 

 chain. In this work Dr. J. Lipke, of the 

 department of mathematics of the Univer- 

 sity of California, and Dr. Raymond 

 Pearl, of Orono, Maine, have as a courtesy, 

 rendered service without which the value 

 of whatever results may be reached would 

 be uncertain. Mr. S. E. Bailey, of the 

 staff, has proven during the summer the 

 practicability of determining with ac- 

 curacy reaching to the fourth decimal 

 place the weight of Fundulus eggs and 

 embryos at various stages of develop- 

 ment. The biological importance of in- 

 vestigations of this sort can not, I believe, 

 be overestimated. This is no place to set 

 forth the grounds of such belief although 

 I may call attention to their obvious ad- 

 jacency to such work as Minot in par- 

 ticular, has been doing recently on the 

 weight of different animals at different 

 periods of life. 



Although the object of this communica- 

 tion is to indicate those aspects of the 

 year's work that constitute a forward step 

 in carrying out the general program of the 

 Station, mention should be made of the 



fact that tasks under way for several 

 years have by no means been neglected. 

 Dr. Torrey made good progress in the de- 

 scription of the pelagic eoelenterata ; Mr. 

 B. L. Michael, resident naturalist of the 

 Station, has nearly completed a paper on 

 the classification of the Chaetognaths of 

 the region, and the director did something 

 on the systematic treatment of the littoral 

 ascidian fauna. Mr. Maurice Nichols, of 

 the department of botany of the University 

 of California, devoted much labor to the 

 description of the corallanes. The usual 

 work was continued of preserving and re- 

 cording all collections brought in, prepar- 

 atory to making them available for the 

 various specialists who will report on them. 



Wm. E. Bitter 

 La Joixa, Cal., 

 July 25, 1908 



THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 



IN CONVENTION ASSEMBLED AT 



CLEVELAND, 0., JULY 1, 1908, 



DECLARATION 



The National Education Association, now 



holding its forty-sixth annual convention in 



Cleveland, and representing teachers and 



friends of education in every state in this 



union, makes the following declaration of 



principles and aims : 



1. Fully realizing that trained and skilled 

 labor is a primary essential to the industrial 

 and commercial welfare of the country, we 

 cordially endorse the establishment by munic- 

 ipal boards of education of trade schools, in- 

 dustrial schools, and evening continuation 

 schools; and further recommend that the 

 instruction in these schools be practical and 

 efficient, and have the advice and the approval 

 of the trade interested, to the end that grad- 

 uates of these schools may at once become ad- 

 vanced apprentices or journeymen. 



2. We recommend the subordination of 

 highly diversified and overburdened courses 

 of study in the grades to a thorough drill in 

 essential subjects; and the sacrifice of quan- 

 tity to an improvement in the quality of in- 

 struction. The complaints of business men 



