Mat 1, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



713 



NATIONALITY OF PAEENTS OF 288 STUDENTS 



Per. 

 Cent 



American (both parents) 100 34.7 



Gferman (both parents) 57 20.0 



British (both parents) 33 11.5 



Hebrew (both parents) 20 6.9 



Russian and Pole (both parents) .. 16 5.5 



Hungarian (both parents) 4 1.4 



Italian (both parents) 3 1.0 



Latin-American (both parents) ... 3 1.0 



French (both parents) 2 



Scandinavian (both parents) 2 



Chinese (both parents) 1 



Japanese (both parents) i 1 



Roumanian ( both parents ) 1 



Bohemian (both parents) 1 



American and foreign 12 4.1 



Mixed foreign 19 6.6 



Three or more nationalities represent- 

 ed in parents and grandparents . . 13 4.5 

 G. L. Meylan 



THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACH- 

 ERS OF THE MATHEMATICAL AND 

 THE NATURAL SCIENCES 



GENERAL STATEMENT OP THE POLICY 



The officers of the federation deem it 

 advisable to make the following brief state- 

 ment of plans and policy, for the informa- 

 tion of associations which may be interested 

 in joining the organization. 



The general purpose of the federation is 

 to increase the efficiency of the federated 

 (local) associations by bringing each of 

 them into helpful cooperative relations 

 with others that are working along similar 

 lines in other parts of the country, and 

 with the new Section L on Education of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



The work of the federation through its 

 officers and committees is expected in the 

 near future to be developed along the fol- 

 lowing principal lines: 



As a clearing house for the federated 

 societies the federation wiU undertake to 

 collect and to keep up-to-date information 

 in regard to the work and the publications 

 of these societies, and to aid as opportunity 



offers in the formation of new societies 

 when needed. 



As a publishing agency the federation 

 will systematically print such of this in- 

 formation as may be of general interest in 

 simple bulletins or in reports in scientific 

 periodicals. Each federated society will 

 be furnished with a list of the principal 

 papers published in its field, and available 

 to its members by purchase or exchange. 



As a cooperative organization the federa- 

 tion will from time to time, of its own 

 initiative or at the instance of a particular 

 society, propose questions of general in- 

 terest for the consideration of the federated 

 societies, or appoint committees on ques- 

 tions of national scope in the teaching of 

 science. 



In relations with national societies, such 

 as, for example, the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, the 

 National Educational Association, the 

 National Society for the Promotion of 

 Industrial Education, etc., the federation 

 wiU endeavor to secure due recognition of 

 the interests of the associations composing 

 it, and of the great body of teachers of 

 science. 



At its Chicago meeting the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence showed its interest in and approval 

 of the movement by affiliating the new 

 federation with itself, and then extending 

 to members of the federated associations 

 the opportunity of joining the association 

 without the usual initiation fee. 



In general, the federation is expected in 

 the future development of its policy to 

 promote the advancement and improvement 

 of science teaching in whatever manner 

 may seem wise under the restrictions fun- 

 damental to its organization, which leave 

 entire freedom of action to the federated 

 associations, and which contemplate the 

 transaction of federation business mainly 



