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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 622. 



E. C. Jeffrey, A. G. Webster, Harold Ernst 

 and E. E. Southard. 



NEW YORK STATE SCIENCE TEACHEES' ASSOCIATION. 



The next annual meeting of the New York 

 State Science Teachers' Association will be 

 held at Teachers College, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York City, December 26 and 27. 



The program is as follows: 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 



Dean James E. Russell, address of welcome. 



Dr. Kelly, Ethical Culture School: 'Are High 

 School Courses in Science adapted to the Needs 

 of Adolescents.' 



J. M. Jameson, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn: 

 ' More Interesting Mechanics.' 



Professor Minchen, University of Rochester: 

 demonstration, ' The Principle of Interference 

 and its Applications.' 



Henry R. Linville, De Witt Clinton High 

 School, New York City : ' Biology as Method and 

 as Science in Secondary Schools.' 



Dh. Grace E. Cooley, Newark High School: 

 * The High School Biologist and the Citizen of To- 

 morrow.' 



Jennie T. Martin, Central High School, 

 Buffalo : ' Field Work in Physical Greography.' 



W. H. Platzer, High School, Poughkeepsie : 

 'The Value of the Inductive Study of Relief 

 Forms in Field Work.' 



Professor Gale, University of Rochester: 

 ' The Place of Transformation Theory in Geom- 

 etry.' 



Professor Keyser, Columbia University: 'Con- 

 cerning the Introduction of Modern Notions into 

 the Geometry of Secondary Mathematics.' 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



Professor D. E. Smith, Teachers College, Co- 

 lumbia University : ' The Preparation of the 

 Teacher of Mathematics in Secondary Schools.' 



Professor E. L. Thorndike, Teachers College, 

 Columbia University : ' Science Teaching seen 

 from the Outside.' 



THURSDAY FORENOON. 



Professor Mann, Chicago University : ' The 

 New Move for the Reform of Physics Teaching 

 in Germany, France and America.' 



Professor Sherman Davis, Indiana Univer- 

 sity : ' Purpose of Science in the Culture of the 

 Adolescent.' 



W. M. Bennett, West High School, Rochester: 



' Some Demonstrations in Refraction and Disper- 

 sion of Light.' 



J. Y. Bergen, Cambridge, Mass. : ' Plant Phys- 

 iology in Secondary Schools.' 



Professor Bigelow, Teachers College, Colum- 

 bia University : ' Some Established Principles of 

 Nature Study.' 



Lester B. Gary, High School, Buffalo; George 

 T. Hargitt, High School, Syracuse, and James 

 T. Peabody, Morris High School, New York City: 

 ' The Teaching of Biological Science in some of 

 the High Schools in New York State.' 



Professor Richardson, Syracuse University: 

 ' The Study of Minerals and Rocks in Physical 

 Geography in the High School.' 



Dr. John M. Clarke, State Geologist, 

 ' Barachois, Bar and Tickle.' 



A. W. Farnham, Oswego Normal School : ' The 

 Relation which School Gardens may bear to 

 Industrial and Commercial Geography.' 



W. T. Morrey, Morris High School, New York 

 City : ' Use of Reference Books in Physical Geog- 

 raphy by Pupils in the High School.' 



Professor Hawkes, Yale University: 'Sec- 

 ondary Mathematics from a College Standpoint.' 



C. E. BiKL]6, Horace Mann High School : ' What 

 Equipment does a High School need for the Ef- 

 fective Teaching of Mathematics.' 



Professor Webb, Stevens Institute : ' The Rela- 

 tion between High School and College Mathe- 

 matics.' 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 



Professor Hallock, Columbia University, 

 demonstration : ' Optical Oddities.' 



Fred Z. Lewis, Boys' High School, Brooklyn, 

 demonstration : ' Photomicrographs.' 



Professor Davis, Harvard : ' Laboratory Ex- 

 ercises in Physical Geography,' illustrated. 



W. Betz, East High School, Rochester : ' Open 

 Questions in the Teaching of Elementary Geom- 

 etry.' 



The President of the Association of Teachers 

 of Mathematics in the Middle States and Mary- 

 land : ' The Necessity of Closer Affiliation of 

 Mathematical Associations.' 



Dr. E. 0. HovEY, American Museum of Natural 

 History : ' West Indian Volcanoes and their Re- 

 cent Eruptions,' illustrated. 



THURSDAY EVENING. 



Lecture by Professor C. M. Woodward, and re- 

 ception by the trustees of Columbia University. 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 John E. Woodhull. 

 New York City. 



