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II. Aims of Mathematical Instruction — General 

 Principles. 

 III. Mathematics for Years Seven, Eight and 



Nine. 

 IV. Mathematics for Years Ten, Eleven and 

 Twelve. 

 V. College Entrance Eequirements in Mathe- 

 matics. 

 VI. List of Propositions in Plain and Solid 

 Geometry. 

 VII. The Function Concept in Elementary Mathe- 

 matics. 

 VIII. Terms and Symbols in Elementary Mathe- 

 matics. 

 It -will also include a brief synopsis of the 

 remaining chapters of the complete report. 

 It is expected that this summary will appear 

 late in ISTovember or early in December. 



It was the original intention of the Com- 

 mittee to publish its complete report also 

 through the U. S. Bureau of Education. It 

 was found, however, that this would involve 

 a delay of two or three years in view of the 

 fact that it would have been necessary for the 

 Bureau of Education to issue the report in 

 parts extending over a considerable period of 

 time. It is hoped at present that sufficient 

 funds will be obtainable to print the report 

 during the winter and to distribute it free of 

 charge to all who are sufficiently interested to 

 ask for it. The complete reiwrt will consti- 

 tute a volume of about five hundred pages. 

 In addition to the chapters listed in the sum- 

 mary, it will contain an account of a number 

 of investigations instituted by the Committee. 

 Among these may be mentioned: 



The Present Status of Disciplinary Values in 

 Education. 



A Critical Study of the Correlation Method 

 Applied to Grades. 



Mathematical Curricula in Foreign Countries. 

 Mathematics in Experimental Schools. 

 The Use of Mental Tests in the Teaching of 

 Mathematics. 



The Training of Teachers of Mathematics. 



There will also he included an extensive 

 bibliography on the teaching of mathematics. 



HENRY WOODWARD 



We regret to record the death of Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, F.E.S., which occurred on Sep- 



tember 7 at his home in Bushey, England. 

 Dr. Woodward was in his ninetieth year 

 and in his long life had achieved very great 

 distinction for his labors in the sciences of 

 geology and paleontology. Dr. Woodward 

 spent the early years of his life in business, 

 but in 1858 he entered the British Museum, 

 and in 1880 was made keeper of geology, a 

 position which he held for 25 years. Though 

 he was a profuse writer on various geological 

 and paleontological subjects, his special inter- 

 est lay in the study of the fossil Crustacea, 

 and perhaps his most keenly analytical work 

 was in the field of the fossil merostomes. He 

 was the president of the Palseontographical 

 Society and had been the president of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society as well as of the 

 Geological Section of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science and of the 

 Geological Society of London. He was the 

 president and founder of the Malacological 

 Society and had been the president of the 

 British Museums Association. In 1862, with 

 the late Professor T. Eupert Jones, he 

 founded the Geological Magazine, of which 

 he remained the editor until the time of his 

 death. 



Doctor Woodward kept his intellectual 

 vigor and his interest in his science up to 

 the last and passed away peacefully after a 

 very brief illness. 



J. M. C. 



PROFESSOR PAWLOW 



Professor W. B. Cannon, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, vsrites to the editor of the 

 Journal of the American Medical Association 

 as follows: 



In The Journal, September 3, there is a letter 

 from Budapest, dated July 12, 1921, in which it 

 is stated that Pawlow, the great Russian physi- 

 ologist, had died in January, 1921. You may 

 know that several years ago there was a rumor 

 that he had died, which proved to be incorrect. 

 Apparently the statement from Budapest is like- 

 wise incorrect. I have a copy of a letter from Dr. 

 Edward W. Ryan, commissioner of the American 

 Red Cross to western Russia and the Baltic States, 

 written from Riga, March 23, 1921, to Col. Robert 

 E. Olds, commissioner of the R«d Cross in Europe. 



