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all grades of education have made during recent 

 years, there continues to exist such a spirit of 

 general unrest and criticism of results as to pre- 

 clude any feeling of satisfaction or security to 

 serious students and workers in education. In 

 the controversy between the educational progress- 

 ives and the educational conservatives, society in 

 general has assumed a defensible position and has 

 accepted the program for progress as rapidly as 

 the scientiiie soundness of that program was 

 demonstrated. Our educational science in the 

 past has been decidedly individualistic and the 

 scientific problems of education have not been 

 analyzed and delimited so as to permit the prac- 

 tical utilization of the collected results of accom- 

 plished investigation or the cooperative efforts of 

 individual investigators. The real obstacle to 

 progress has been the lack of coordinated and 

 cooperative research. There is need to-day for 

 scientific insight rather than emotional propa- 

 gandism. Govermnentally the center of gravity 

 is shifting from the state to the nation. The 

 traditional balance between state and federal 

 activities has been overthrown and the signs of 

 the times indicate the development of many new 

 social functions, the full and adequate perform- 

 ance of which will depend upon the national gov- 

 vernment. Education, especially in its elementary 

 and secondary stages, is the one subject of vital 

 significance to human welfare, the scientific in- 

 vestigation of which the national government has 

 not generously subsidized and encouraged. The 

 expansion of United States Bureau of Education 

 so as to enable it to serve as the central labora- 

 tory for American research in education, under- 

 taking that now not undertalren, coordinating and 

 organizing that now being attempted in a hap- 

 hazard and incidental manner by individual insti- 

 tutions and societies, and causing it thereby to 

 assume the leadership now so much needed for 

 the real advance of American education seems to 

 offer the greatest opportunity for the new fed- 

 eralism. 



Mr. Moore's paper will be printed in full in 

 Science. 



At the second session of the section the topic 

 " American College Education and Life " was 

 treated by Professors Josiah Eoyee, of Harvard; 

 Wm. North Rice, of Wesleyan; James H. Tufts, 

 of Chicago, and Mr. Abraham Plexner, of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. These papers have been printed in full 

 in Science for March 12 and 19 . 



Two joint sessions were held: one with the 



American Psychological Association and the other 

 with the American Federation of Teachers of the 

 Mathematical and the Natural Sciences. At the 

 first of these joint sessions the following program 

 was given: 



" Psychological Investigations that will help 

 the Educator," by Professor E. A. Kirkpatrick. 



" Studies in Number Consciousness," by Pro- 

 fessor C. H. Judd. 



" The factors of General Ability," by Professor 

 E. L. Thorndike. 



" Homogeneous Content in the Measurement of 

 Memory," by Professor C. E. Seashore. 



"The General Effects of Special Practise in 

 Memory," by Professor W. F. Dearborn. 



" The Study and Treatment of Retardation," by 

 Professor Lightner Witmer. 



The report of this meeting has been published 

 in the Proceedings of the American Psychological 

 Association. 



The other joint session with the science teachers 

 was given up to a sj mposium on " The Problems 

 of Science Teaching" by President Ira Eemsen, 

 Jonns Hopkins University, and Messrs. Wm. T. 

 Campbell, Boston Latin School; George F. Strad- 

 ling. Northeast Manual Training High School, 

 Philadelphia; John M. Coulter, The University of 

 Chicago, and Lyman 0. Newell, Boston University. 

 The report of this meeting has been published in 

 Science for April 30, in connection with the re- 

 port of the American Federation, and also in 

 School Science and Mathematics for March and 

 April, 1909. 



C. R. Mann, 



THE ENTOMOLO&IOAL SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA 



The fourth meeting of the Entomological So- 

 ciety of America was held in Baltimore, December 

 30 and 31, 1908, in aifiliation with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The meeting was called to order by the presi- 

 dent. Dr. W. M. Wheeler, in the Eastern High 

 School, at 11 A.M., December 31. Dr. Fernald 

 read the report of the committee on nomenclature. 

 Moved and carried that this report be received 

 and printed and discussed one year later, and that 

 this should be the general policy in dealing with 

 these reports. This report is appended. The 

 managing editor made an informal report upon 

 the condition of the Annals. The president an- 

 nounced the death during the year of Dr. W. H. 

 Ashmead, an honorary fellow; Dr. James Fletcher, 



