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SCIENCE 



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pointed by the conference to continue the or- 

 ganization and work of the conference: As- 

 sistant State Superintendent tJ. J. Hoffman, 

 chairman; Anna L. Barbre, county superin- 

 tendent, Taylorville; C. H. Watts, county 

 superintendent, Champaign; Hon. J. B. Bur- 

 rows, Decatur; Mrs. Scott Durand, Lake 

 Bluff; Alice Jean Patterson, Illinois State 

 Normal University; Professor W. G. Bagley, 

 (Jniversity of Illinois; Professor Fred. L. 

 Charles, University of Illinois. 



The above-mentioned committee presented 

 the following resolutions which were unani- 

 mously adopted by the conference: 

 Resolved: 



1. That this conference request and authorize 

 Professor Fred L. Charles to appoint a represen- 

 tative committee to ser\'e with him as chairman 

 in the preparation of a course of study in agri- 

 cultural nature-study which may be suitable for 

 the eight grades of the elementary schools of 

 Illinois. 



2. That we may request those who are respon- 

 sible for the conduct of the agricultural short 

 course, that provision be made for a second meet- 

 ing of this conference during the nest annual 

 short course at the university. 



3. That this conference appoint a committee of 

 three to enter into communication with the Illi- 

 nois Farmers' Institute, through its committee 

 on Agricultural Education in the public schools-, 

 to bring to its attention the urgent necessity of 

 furnishing to the teachers of the elementary 

 schools of the state all possible aid in the organ- 

 ization and adaptation of agricultural materials 

 suitable to the purposes of these schools, and, 

 further, to request that they take such action as 

 they deem necessary to. secure at the next session 

 of the legislature ample funds to equip the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, through its college of agricul- 

 ture and school of education, to carry on the 

 following most essential lines of work: (1) Re- 

 search in the organization and method of nature- 

 study and agriculture in the elementary schools; 



(2) the training of specialists within this field; 



(3) the publication of abundant literature for 

 the use of the public schools; (4) the main- 

 tenance of a correspondence bureau to meet the 

 rapidly growing demands from the teachers and 

 elementary school interests of the state; (5) the 

 establishment and maintenance of a bureau for 



the preparation and distribution of equipment and 

 materials essential to instruction in this subject; 

 (6) the employment of thoroughly competent 

 demonstration teachers who shall be sent out 

 into the state to assist in the introduction of this 

 study in the elementary schools; (7) such other 

 means of advancing this study as may later ap- 

 pear to be desirable. 



The committee of three to communicate 

 with the Farmers' Institute Committee was 

 as follows: Hon. Joseph Carter, Hon. J. B. 

 Burrows, Dean Eugene Davenport. 



One interesting result of the work of this 

 conference was the plan to assemble at the 

 university model rural school equipments in 

 agriculture, domestic science, hygiene and 

 public health, and in manual training. The 

 university is very fortunate in already being 

 provided with an equipment in manual train- 

 ing. This model outfit for rural schools was 

 presented to the university by the Bradley 

 Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, and is the 

 product of a study by Professor C. S. Van 

 Deusen. 



A statement has gone out to the papers that 

 manual training in the schools had received 

 a set-back in the discussions of this confer- 

 ence. The statement was entirely erroneous, 

 nothing to that effect was even suggested. 



REPORT OF A'N INVESTIGATION OF THE 



PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH 



EUSAPIA PALLADINO 



The undersigned had three sittings with 

 the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino in the 

 Physical Laboratory at Columbia University 

 in January last. The object in view was to 

 secure and report any evidence of the opera- 

 tion of hitherto unknown forces through her 

 or in her presence. 



Though the investigation may fairly be 

 called patient and laborious, no convincing 

 evidence whatever of such a phenomenon could 

 be obtained. Many indications were obtained, 

 however, that trickery was being practised on 

 the sitters. These indications will be more 

 fully stated by the individual investigators. 



So far as these' sittings afford data for 

 judgment, the conclusion of the undersigned 



