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merly done in the home. The home is transfer- 

 ring constantly some of its functions to the school. 



2. Many kinds of schools and many kinds of 

 courses should be oflFered. 



3. The needs of communities should be studied 

 in order that students in high schools should not 

 be diverted from labor — but rather prepared for 

 it, and for that kind which is locally needed and 

 for which they are individually adapted. 



4. High school teachers must study children 

 and their interests, tastes and capabilities more 

 than subjects or syllabuses. 



5. Secondary or higher education must not be 

 considered as a means of escape from labor. 



6. Many must be prepared to work with their 

 hands. 



7. When we have done all this we shall no longer 

 be concerned about the number who leave high 

 school before graduating, and I rather suspect 

 that we shall not long deliberate on whether pupils 

 have read four or six books of Caesar, nor shall 

 we discriminate against them if, being girls, they 

 have elected cooking instead of physics, or being 

 boys, they have elected modern civics instead of 

 ancient history. 



If it be true that the conditions of law and life 

 require or induce the attendance of children in 

 high schools until they are fifteen or sixteen or 

 seventeen, and the conditions of graduation im- 

 pose a four years' course, it is quite evident that 

 the schools are being maintained, so far as num- 

 bers are concerned, for those who do not graduate, 

 or who only remain in school one, two or perhaps 

 three years; and this being the case, the principle 

 of " the greatest good for the greatest number " 

 requires that we shall give them particular and 

 special attention. 



C. E. Mann, 

 Secretary 



FIFTH MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 The fifth meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of America was held at the Harvard Medical 

 School, Boston, December 30 and 31, 1909. The 

 president. Dr. Henry Skinner, presided through- 

 out the sessions. The president announced the 

 deaths of Henry H. Edwards, an honorary fellow, 

 Professor Mark Vernon Slingerland, a fellow, B 

 H. Guilbeau, W. Brodie and H. M. S. Seib, mem 

 bers. Suitable resolutions on the deaths of Mr. 

 Edwards and Professor Slingerland were adopted, 

 The report of the executive committee showed, 

 among other things, that 16 new members had 



been received during the year and 22 memberships 

 had terminated, not including those who had died. 

 Alan that a memorial drawn up by Mr. N. C. 

 Wood regarding the tariff on insects and signed 

 by the president and secretary had been productive 

 of no action by congress. 



The question of appointing delegates to the 

 approaching International Congress of Entomol- 

 ogy was referred to the executive committee. 



The following officers were elected: 



President — Dr. John B. Smith. 



First Vice-president— Bt. S. A. Forbes. 



Second Vice-president— Fiofessor V. L. Kellogg. 



Secretary-Treasurer— FTofessoT C. R. Crosby. 



Additional Members of the Executive Committee 

 —Professor J. H. Comstock, Dr. W. M. Wheeler, 

 Mr. E. A. Schwarz, Professor J. M. Aldrich, 

 Rev. Professor C. J. S. Bethune, Professor Law- 

 rence Bruner. 



Memher of the Committee on Nomenclature — 

 Professor T. D. A. Cockerell (to succeed himself). 



The report of the committee on nomenclature 

 concerning the nomenclature of gall insects read 

 at the Baltimore meeting, and printed in the 

 Annals for 1909, was adopted as printed, with 

 the provision that the society express itself as 

 standing with the majority of the committee in 

 section V. 



Mr. Brues suggested that Professor Felt submit 

 a list of names of gall insects that he thought 

 could be accepted as standard. 



Moved and carried that the request of Dr. Stiles 

 published in Science, for the preparation of a list 

 of one hundred important names to be adopted by 

 the Congress of Zoology as standard, be referred 

 to the executive committee. 



The following amendment to the constitution 

 was adopted: Article V., Sec. 3.— Election of ofii- 

 cers. All ofiicers shall be elected by ballot at the 

 annual meeting for the term of one year and shall 

 be eligible for reelection. Their term of ofiice 

 shall commence with the first of June following 

 their election. 



The secretary was instructed to take a mail 

 vote of all members and fellows of the society as 

 to whether the present arrangement of paying 

 separate dues and subscriptions to the Annals 

 should be continued, or a single membership fee 

 of two dollars be charged, and members receive 

 without further expense the publications of the 

 society. 



Professor Sanderson suggested the adoption of 

 a uniform style of button for both the entomolog- 

 ical societies meeting in affiliation with the Amer- 



