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3. Well-trained teachers for all public 

 schools. 



4. EiEcient supervision of schools. 



5. The introduction of agricultural and in- 

 dustrial training into the schools. 



6. The promotion of libraries and correla- 

 tion of public libraries and public schools. 



Y. Schools for the defective and dependent 

 classes. 



8. The organization of a citizens' education 

 association in every county and city. 



9. Local taxation. 



The commission as formed is said to be a 

 thoroughly representative one. As may be 

 inferred from the foregoing nine objects, it 

 has for its purpose the unification of educa- 

 tional forces, with a view of utilizing their 

 combined wisdom and streng-th in reenforcing 

 the ■ efforts of the state and local authorities 

 in the matter of perfecting the public school 

 system of Virginia. Such a movement as 

 this is particularly promising on account of 

 the hitherto independent development of edu- 

 cational institutions without that degree of 

 correlation which would be advantageous to 

 all. 



A FUND of $30,000 has been secured through 

 the efforts of Professor Richard T. Ely, of 

 Wisconsin University, for the purpose of 

 making an extended inquiry into the indus- 

 trial history of the United States in its bear- 

 ings upon the labor problems. The length of 

 time to be occupied will probably extend to 

 five years. Professor John R. Commons will 

 be associated with Professor Ely, together 

 with a corps of assistants. 



The national budget of France for the year 

 1904 carries an expenditure of $45,914,700 for 

 public instruction and the fine arts, compared 

 with $38,600,000 in 1894, or an increase of 

 19 per cent, in ten years. 



John Franklin Crowell, 

 Secretary^ Section 7, A. A. A. S. 



Washingto:n^, D. C. 



OPPOBTUmTIES IN ANTBROPOLOGY AT 

 THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



Now that the Department of Anthropology 

 and cognate branches of the Exposition are 



well under way, it has become clear that the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition affords un- 

 equalled opportunities for ethnologic study. 

 The original plans for the department are so 

 far fulfilled (largely by the great Philippine 

 Exhibit, the Department of Physical Culture, 

 etc.) as to bring to the exposition the largest 

 assemblage of the world's peoples in the world's 

 history. Some of the alien groups have been 

 selected especially to represent distinct ethnic 

 types ; and nearly all the groups have been 

 selected with special reference to culture- 

 grade, so that every known stage of industrial 

 and social development is typified among the 

 peoples on the exposition grounds. Accord- 

 ingly, students and teachers of anthropology 

 in all its branches may have in St. Louis dur- 

 ing the present summer opportunities for orig- 

 inal and instructional work such as could not 

 be enjoyed otherwise except at the cost in time 

 and money of extensive journeys with attend- 

 ant hardships. The exposition authorities ap- 

 preciate the opportunity and undertake to 

 afford stiTdents and teachers every facility 

 consistent with the primary purposes of the. 

 exposition. 



The department comprises sections of 

 ethnology, illustrated chiefiy by living groups, 

 partly by collections of artifacts; Indian 

 school work, illustrated by a model school in 

 actual operation ; archeology, illustrated by 

 typical collections and series of aboriginal 

 artifacts; history, illustrated especially by 

 relics and records of the transition of the terri- 

 tory from the aboriginal condition to that of 

 advanced enlightenment ; anthropometry, which 

 is devoted to apparatus and laboratory work in 

 which the assembled physical types are meas- 

 ured and recorded; and psychometry, likewise 

 devoted to apparatus and laboratory tests of 

 sense reactions and other psychic characters 

 of the types of mankind. The four sections 

 last named are accommodated in the Anthro- 

 pology Building in the western portion of the 

 grounds; the Indian school is housed in a 

 special building near by; and the alien groups 

 of the department occupy native habitations 

 about this building and intermediate between 

 the extensive Philippine exhibits on the south 

 and the Physical Culture Department on the 



