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girls in employment has actually decreased 

 from 320 to 314, although the total number of 

 cases reported on has grown from 902 to 1,001. 

 During the war, and for some time after- 

 wards, no difficulty was experienced in pro- 

 curing situations for such mentally defective 

 persons as were capable of employment, but 

 under the present conditions of industry con- 

 siderable dificulty arises. The earnings of 

 those, however, who have remained in em- 

 ployment show the general upward tendency 

 which wages had during 1920, and three men 

 are each reported as able to earn £5 per week, 

 while two others in business on their own ac- 

 count are reported to be making comfortable 

 livings. The percentage of cases in institu- 

 tions again decreased last year, and the com- 

 mittee says it finds that institutional accom- 

 modation for the mentally defective continues 

 to be deplorably inadequate throughout the 

 country as a whole. 



BUREAU OF SPECIAL EDUCATION IN OHIO 



The eighty-third General Assembly of 

 Ohio appropriated $10,000 "for the ti-aining 

 of teachers for subnormal and delinquent 

 children." One sentence in an appropriation 

 bill provided that this sum should be trans- 

 ferred to one of the state colleges of educa- 

 tion "to be designated by a committee com- 

 posed of the director of juvenile research, 

 the president of Ohio University, the presi- 

 dent of Miami University, the superinten- 

 dent of Bowling Green State Normal School, 

 and the superintendent of Kent State Normal 

 School for such purposes." On December 30, 

 1920, the committee decided to place the work 

 under the administration of Miami Univer- 

 sity. Practically all the initial appropria- 

 tion was used for the purchase of psychologi- 

 cal, anthropometric and medical apparatus, 

 intelligence and educational test blanks, office 

 and classroom furniture and equipment, 

 material for special class work, a piano, a 

 victrola, a portable projector, a Burroughs 

 adding machine, etc., and the payment of 

 salaries up to the end of the fiscal year, July 

 1, 1921. 



Instruction was first offered in the summer 



session under the temporary direction of Dr. 

 J. E. Wallace Wallin, who has been director 

 of the psycho-educational clinic and special 

 schools in St. Louis during the past seven 

 years, and who during the preceding four 

 years was director of laboratories of clinical 

 psychology and anthropometry in the State 

 Village for Epileptics in New Jersey and the 

 University of Pittsburgh, and who has offered 

 courses for the training of teachers and ex- 

 aminers of abnormal children during the last 

 eleven years in the Vineland Training School, 

 the Universities of Pittsburgh, Iowa, Cali- 

 fornia and Montana, and the Harris Teachers 

 College of St. Louis. 



Dr. Wallin has been retained as permanent 

 director of the department, which is known as 

 Bureau of Special Education. The present 

 staff includes, in addition to the directors, one 

 assistant to the director, one stenographer on 

 part time, and two critic teachers, a part of 

 whose salaries is paid by the local school dis- 

 tricts in which are the observation and prac- 

 tise centers. The main practise center during 

 the present year is in Hamilton. It is hoped 

 to locate the bureau eventually in a large 

 city, which will afford, in connection with the 

 public-school system, ample opportunities for 

 observation and practise teaching in many 

 kinds of special classes and which will also 

 afford superior clinical advantages. 



A FOREST EXPERIMENTAL STATION AT ASHE- 

 VILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 



The continued steady depletion of the timber 

 supply in the Appalachian region has led the 

 Forest Service of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture to establish a new forest 

 experiment station at Asheville, North Caro- 

 lina. This is the first organization of its kind 

 to be established in the eastern United States. 



The staff will be engaged mainly in silvicul- 

 tural research to secure information greatly 

 needed for the proper management of forest 

 lands in order to insure a continuous supply 

 of timber and other forest products. E. H. 

 Frothingham has been appointed director. 

 He comes to the station with a background 

 of over twelve years of investigative work 

 with the Forest Service throughout the east- 



