Mat 21, 1909] 



SCIENCE- 



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Special interest attaches to exhibits pre- 

 senting typical courses of instruction in art, 

 in nature study and in geography, prepared 

 by authorities in these respective branches who 

 are also masters of the art of graphic presen- 

 tation. 



Manual training, as carried out in the rural 

 high schools, which are rapidly increasing in 

 number, is well represented in the section. 

 The importance of this training is emphasized 

 by a typical course of manual training exer- 

 cises equally adapted to city and country high 

 schools, arranged for this occasion by Dr. Cal- 

 vin M. Woodward. 



The absorbing interest in this country at the 

 present time in the development of high 

 schools in which provision is made for agri- 

 culture, domestic science and manual arts, is 

 emphasized in the exhibit by material pertain- 

 ing to these subjects as parts of the school 

 curriculum. This material consists of mono- 

 graphs, leaflets and photographs by means of 

 which every phase of this comparatively re- 

 cent departure in our educational provision is 

 illustrated. 



The equipment of rural schools is vastly in- 

 creased by traveling and loan museums of 

 which important examples have been supplied 

 to this exhibit from the National Department 

 of Agriculture, and from the chief scientific 

 museums of the country which are rapidly 

 coming into the same relation with the com- 

 mon schools as the traveling libraries. 



The entire exhibit is arranged around two 

 centers, as it were, namely, the model of an 

 improved type of rural school, and a graphic 

 presentation of the consolidated rural school. 

 This plan emphasizes the fact that the first 

 condition of improvement in common schools 

 is their suitable housing. 



The different collections in the exhibit are 

 all fully labeled, and credit is given in each 

 case to the source from which the particular 

 exhibit was derived. 



It is hoped that all teachers and school 

 officers visiting the exposition will avail them- 

 selves of the opportunity thus afforded by the 

 National Bureau for the study of salient edu- 

 cational problems of the hour, and' also for 

 professional meetings and conferences. 



Special appointments for the conference 

 room, and documents intended for circulation 

 may be secured by addressing Mr. James C. 

 Boykin, acting representative of the Interior 

 Department at the Alaska- Yukon Exposition. 



DELEGATES TO THE DABWIN CELEBRA- 

 TION AT CAMBRIDGE 



The following is the list of American insti- 

 tutions which have been invited to send dele- 

 gates to the celebration to be held in Cam- 

 bridge next month in honor of the Darwin 

 centenary and of the delegates who have been 

 appointed : 

 Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Dr. H. S. 



Carhart. 

 Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Dr. J. M. 



Baldwin. 

 Berkeley, University of California, Dr. Jacques 



Loeb. 

 Boston, 'American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



Professor W. Gibson Farlow. 

 *Boston Society of Natural History, Professor 



0. S. Minot. 

 Cambridge, Harvard University, Dr. A. Agassiz 



and Dr. Theobald Smith. 

 Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 

 Chicago, University of Chicago, Professor J. M. 



Coulter. 

 Evanston, Northwestern University, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Station for Experimental 



Evolution, Dr. C. B. Davenport. 

 Columbus, Ohio State University, 

 Indiana, *Franklin Literary Society, 

 Ithaca, Cornell University, President J. G. Schur- 



man. 

 Madison, University of Wisconsin, Dr. F. B. 



Powers. 

 Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Professor 



E. van Dyke Robinson. 



New Haven, Yale University, Professor R. H. 

 Chittenden. 

 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



Professor Tracey Peck. 

 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Professor 

 R. H. Chittenden. 

 New York, Columbia University, Dr. E. B. Wilson. 

 New York University, Dr. H. M. Biggs. 

 *New York Academy of Sciences, President C. 



F. Cox. 



American Museum of Natural History, Director 

 H. C. Bumpus. 



