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tion with the International Catalogue. It 

 was thereupon voted: 



That it be referred to the executive committee, 

 after consultation with the regional bureaus, to 

 consider and decide as to what steps, if any, can 

 be taken for cooperation with the proposed Inter- 

 national Commission for the publication of annual 

 Physical Chemical Tables. 



The two following resolutions were then 

 agreed to and as each was presented a gen- 

 eral discussion of its merits followed. The 

 final decision of the matter can not be 

 better expressed than by quoting the reso- 

 lutions in full. 



The first was, 



Sesolved, That a committee be appointed to 

 revise the schedules and to make such other altera- 

 tions as may be necessary in the form of issue of 

 the Catalogue. That it be an instruction to the 

 committee that, so far as possible, the subject 

 index be confined to abbreviated titles and au- 

 thors' names and numbers to serve as references 

 to the author index. That it be an instruction to 

 the regional bureaus to have in mind constantly 

 the need of maintaining the Catalogue of mini- 

 mum bulk. That the committee consist of the 

 executive committee and Dr. Deniker, Dr. Heintz 

 and Professor Korteweg. 



The • executive committee being Pro- 

 fessor H. E. Armstrong, Dr. Horace T. 

 Brown, Professor A. Famintzin, Leonard 

 C. Gunnell, Professor H. McLeod, Dr. P. 

 Chalmers Mitchell, Professor R. Nasini, 

 Professor H. Poincare, Professor 0. Uhl- 

 worm. 



The second resolution was, 



That in view of the resolution adopted unan- 

 imously by the representatives of the various 

 countries constituting the convention, desiring the 

 Eoyal Society to continue its responsibility for the 

 publication of the International Catalogue for a 

 further period, the committee appointed be in- 

 structed: (1) To take all possible steps to prevent 

 reduplication by the publication of several annual 

 and similar catalogues and indexes on the same 

 subject, by making arrangements such as those 

 now in force with the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don. (2) To obtain further assistance and coop- 

 eration in the preparation of the material of the 



Catalogue from the principal scientific societies 

 and academies and the organizations which collect 

 materials for indexing scientific literature. 



The question of the publication of a de- 

 cennial index referred to in the report of 

 the executive committee was discussed and 

 it was decided that on account of the finan- 

 cial difficulties involved unless the sales of 

 the catalogue increased to a considerable 

 extent the publication of the decennial in- 

 dex could not for the present be enter- 

 tained. The matter was left for the action 

 of the next meeting of the International 

 Council which would be held within the 

 next two years. 



However short the time allotted for this 

 subject may be an account would be in- 

 complete without some mention of the nu- 

 merous and gracious hospitalities extended 

 to the foreign delegates by the Royal So- 

 ciety, the Royal Society Club and individ- 

 ually by the English members of the con- 

 vention who lost no opportunity to show 

 their guests every possible courtesy and 

 consideration. 



Leonard C. Gunnell 

 Smithsonian Institution, 

 April 13, 1911 



SOME PBVSSIAN EDUCATIONAL DATA 

 A MINE of statistical information concern- 

 ing educational conditions in Prussia is 

 Kunze's " Kalendar fiir das hobere Schul- 

 wesen Preussens " (Trewendt und Granier, 

 Breslau), which has been issued annually for 

 seventeen years. The 1910 edition has just 

 made its appearance, and the German press is 

 busy rearranging its data and forming con- 

 clusions. The interest which Americans in 

 general show in German education warrants 

 some discussion of its information with regard 

 to Prussian secondary schools. 



The steady growth in the population of the 

 country is of course accompanied by an in- 

 crease in the number of secondary schools. 

 In 1900 there were in Prussia, in all, 564 



