Annual Meeting. ] Doo [May 7, 
TEACHERS’ SCHOOL OF SCIENCE. 
The Teachers’ School of Science has this year attained ex- 
traordinary size and importance. So sudden and unexpected — 
was this development, that for the last.six months it has almost 
completely arrested all efficient work in other directions. 
The study of nature having been introduced in a definite form 
into the public schools, and the supervisor of this department, 
Miss Lucretia Crocker, having assured us that our assistance 
would be of great benefit, and was in fact essential, it was 
determined to institute appropriate courses upon elementary 
Botany, Zoology, and Mineralogy, if the means of paying 
the expenses could be raised. Mrs. 8. T. Hooper and Miss 
Crocker undertook and successfully completed this part of 
the work, and also a considerable amount of harassing clerical 
labor, which subsequently arose out of the success of their 
own exertions. Fortunately for their scheme these ladies 
met with substantial appreciation from Mrs. Augustus Hem- 
enway, who both subscribed most liberally, and also encour- 
aged them to accept the very considerable pecuniary respon- 
sibilities, which began to block their way at the very begin- 
ning of operations. In fact, without these assurances of 
further support and interest, we should not have dared to 
begin. 
These obstacles arose from two causes, the number of ap- 
plicants, and the necessity of providing identical specimens ’ 
for all. The specimens and materials for two hundred, which 
was the maximum number anticipated at first, could have 
been readily furnished, but when the applicants reached six 
hundred, it became exceedingly questionable whether such a 
number could be provided for, and properly instructed by 
one person, all at the same time. Feeling, however, that the 
cause of science demanded that these difficulties should be 
met and supported, and relying on the hearty codperation 
of Prof. Goodale and the ladies mentioned above, the course 
was begun. 
