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for several miles and many interesting specimens obtained. On 

 the return journey, the buried city of San Juan Teotihuacan, 

 thirty-two miles northeast of Mexico City, was visited, together 

 with the maguey plantations and cactus thickets so abundant in 

 the vicinity. 



" Orizaba, at 4,000 feet elevation among the mountains of the 

 eastern slope, was our next collecting base, and here the ravines 

 and coffee plantations yielded many interesting specimens. The 

 weather, however, remained a little too cool for some forms of 

 fungi, and it was decided to seek lower elevations while the rains 

 continued. Accordingly, we went to Cordoba and from there 

 south to Motzorongo, 800 feet above sea-level, where the con- 

 ditions were ideal. Another trip was taken to Xuchiles, between 

 Motzorongo and Cordoba, and collections were made in the 

 coffee and banana plantations of the Rio Blanco. This whole 

 region about Cordorba is of great botanical interest and is easily 

 accessible by railways running in four different directions. 



" A full descriptive account of this expedition, illustrated with 



original photographs, will be published in the Journal of the New 



York Botanical Garden for March." 



Adjournment followed. 



Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary pro tern. 



OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS 



Science Teaching 



The address of Professor John Dewey, before Section L of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science at Boston 

 is reprinted in Science for January 28, 1910. The gap between 

 " scientific specialists and those who are interested in science on 

 account of its significance in life" is mentioned, and attention is 

 called to the fact that those interested in "securing for the 

 sciences the place that belongs to them in education feel a certain 

 amount of disappointment at the results hitherto attained." The 

 one great cause suggested for this failure is thought to be that 

 science is " taught too much as an accumulation of ready-made 



