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8. We declare further that, granted equal 

 character and efficiency, and equally success- 

 ful experience, women are equally entitled 

 with men to the honors and emoluments of the 

 profession of teaching. 



9. We advocate the enactment and rigid en- 

 forcement of appropriate laws relating to child 

 labor, such as will protect the mental, moral 

 and physical well-being of the child, and will 

 be conducive to his educational development 

 into American citizenship. 



10. The responsibility for the success or 

 failure of the schools rests wholly with the 

 people and therefore the public schools should 

 be kept as near to the people as practicable; to 

 this end we endorse the principle of popular 

 local self-government in all school matters. 



11. Since education is a matter of the high- 

 est public concern, our public school system 

 should be fully and adequately supported by 

 taxation; and tax laws should be honestly and 

 rigidly enforced both as to assessment and col- 

 lection. 



12. We congratulate and thank the manage- 

 ment of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 for giving education first place in the scheme 

 of classification, for the location and grandeur 

 of its building, and for the extent and arrange- 

 ment of the educational exhibits. Such recog- 

 nition of education is in harmony with the 

 genius of our democracy and will stimulate 

 interest in popular education throughout the 

 world. 



APPEAL FOR COOPERATION IN MAGNETIC 



AND ALLIED OBSERVATIONS DURING 



THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 



AUGUST 29-30, 1905. 



Those who are in position to take part in 

 above cooperative work are earnestly requested 

 to make the necessary preparations and to put 

 themselves in communication with the under- 

 signed. 



As this will be the best opportunity for some 

 time to come to further test and observe the 

 magnetic and electric phenomena which have 

 been found to occur in connection with total 

 solar eclipses, and as these phenomena are des- 

 tined to play an important role in the theory 

 of the variations of the earth's magnetism and 



electricity, ascribed to outside forces, it is 

 very much hoped that all countries through 

 which or near which the belt of totality passes 

 will organize and send in the field observing 

 parties. 



Owing to the minuteness of the expected 

 magnetic effect, the burden of proof as to its 

 association with the eclipse will largely con- 

 sist, as in the two previous eclipses, in the 

 connection of the times of the magnetic effects 

 with the times of passage of the shadow cone 

 at the various stations. The observing parties, 

 therefore, should be distributed at intervals 

 along as much of the entire belt as possible. 



The above is merely a preliminary notifica- 

 tion of the work proposed. Fuller details and 

 suggested directions to be followed will be 

 given later. L. A. Bauer, 



Director. 



Address: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 The, Ontario, Washington, D. C, 

 U. S. A. 



THE COTTON BOLL WEEVIL. 

 Last year the chief of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry prepared, by direction of the secre- 

 tary, a general plan of work to meet the dam- 

 age caused by the Mexican cotton boll weevil. 

 With this plan as a basis, the sum of $250,000 

 was appropriated and became available early 

 in February of this year. The work was di- 

 vided in the department, part being assigned 

 by the secretary to the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, and part to the Bureau of Entomology. 

 During the summer the investigations have 

 been pushed forward vigorously by both 

 branches of the department. The department 

 has cooperated with state authorities in loca- 

 ting and taking action upon sporadic out- 

 breaks of the weevil. The farmers in the state 

 of Texas have been thoroughly organized and 

 more than 5,000 have grown cotton under the 

 improved conditions recommended by the de- 

 partment.' This work has been in charge of 

 Dr. S. A. KJiapp, of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, with headquarters at Houston. Ex- 

 tensive work on the improvement of varieties 

 has been inaugurated, the work being con- 

 dxicted by the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 mainly at Terrell, Texas. In order to encour- 



