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tricity with. Professors Nicliols and Shearer, 

 of Cornell, and with Professor Esterline, of 

 Purdue, and he had published a number of 

 papers on electrical subjects. He was a mem- 

 ber of the honor fraternity, Sigma Xi. 



TBE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 A REGULAR meeting of the board of regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution was held on 

 December 3, 1907, at ten o'clock, at the insti- 

 tution, the chancellor. Chief Justice Puller, 

 presiding, and the following regents being 

 present : Vice-president Charles W. Pairbanks, 

 Senator Shelby M. Cullom, Senator Henry 

 Cabot Lodge, Senator Augustus O. Bacon, 

 Eepresentative John Dalzell, Representative 

 James R. Mann, Representative William M. 

 Howard, Dr. Andrew D. White, the Hon. John 

 B. Henderson, and the secretary of the in- 

 stitution. Dr. Charles D. Walcott. 



The secretary presented his report for the 

 year ending June 30, 1907, to the board, which 

 was accepted. Statements were received from 

 the executive and permanent committees. The 

 secretary presented a statement of the affairs 

 of the institution since the close of the fiscal 

 year. Considerable attention was given to 

 the National Gallery of Art, and a resolution 

 was adopted urging congress to make an ap- 

 propriation for adapting the large hall of the 

 Smithsonian building to the purposes of ,a gal- 

 lery of art. A resolution was also adopted 

 tendering the thanks of the regents to William 

 T. Evans for the gift of his valuable collec- 

 tions of paintings by American artists, and 

 to the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art 

 for their courtesy in providing temporarily 

 for the exhibition of this collection. 



TBE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACH- 

 ERS OF THE MATHEMATICAL AND 

 THE NATURAL SCIENCES 



The second annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Federation of Teachers of the Mathe- 

 matical and the Natural Sciences will be held 

 in Chicago on January 1, 1908, at 2 p.m., in 

 room 20 of the Kent Chemical Laboratory, 

 University of Chicago. The purpose of the 

 federation is a more unified and concentrated 



effort on the part of its members to better the 

 teaching of mathematics and of the natural 

 sciences. The membership of the federation 

 consists entirely of associations, each member 

 being represented by delegates at the meetings. 

 At the last meeting, a tentative organization 

 was formed by the following associations : 

 The Association of Teachers of Mathematics 

 of the Middle States and Maryland ; The New 

 York State Science Teachers Association ; The 

 Central Association of Science and Mathe- 

 matics Teachers; The Association of Teachers 

 of Mathematics of New England ; The Physics 

 Teachers Association of Washington City; 

 The Missouri Society of Teachers of Mathe- 

 matics and Science; The New Jersey State 

 Science Teachers Association. 



Since the last meeting, the following asso- 

 ciations have signified their intention of be- 

 ing represented at the coming meeting in 

 Chicago: The Michigan Schoolmasters Club; 

 The New England Association of Chemistry 

 Teachers; The New York Physics Club; The 

 Indiana Association of Science and Mathe- 

 matics Teachers; The Association of Ohio 

 Teachers of Mathematics and Science. At 

 this meeting on January 1, the final form of 

 the organization will be decided. All organi- 

 zations whose leading purpose is the better- 

 ment of the teaching either of mathematics or 

 of the natural sciences are invited to send 

 delegates to this meeting and thus to take part 

 in the organization of the federation. By 

 joining this body, an association will lose in 

 no way its individuality or its right to work 

 in its own field in its ovsti way; but it will 

 gain an official means of keeping in touch with 

 the work of the other associations, and will re- 

 ceive from the federation suggestions as to 

 the ways in which all the associations may 

 work together on their common problems. 



0. R; Mann, 

 Secretary 



Untveesitt of Chicago 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS OF 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the national scientific 

 societies named below will meet at the TJni- 



