iS93-] IdO [Annual Meeting. 
Science on Saturdays. The room in the southeast corner has 
been given up to the storage of Mr. Cory's collections. Cases 
have been put up in the main part of the basement to receive the 
collection formerly stored in this room, and the specimens in these 
have been rearranged by Mr. Van Vleck. 
The entire collection of diagrams, 600 in all, has been relabeled 
and numbered by Miss Martin and placed in new racks, making 
them more accessible than formerly. The collection of diagrams 
is constantly used by the department of biology in the Institute 
of Technoloixv. 
Teachers' Sc'Hf»OL of Sciexce. 
This department during the past two years has Itecorae more 
closely associated with the interests of tiie teachers of the public 
schools than in its previous history. 
The standing committee on elementary science of the New 
England conference of educational workers adopted this building 
as its regular place of meeting. This action, and also the results of 
the discussions of this committee, have shown that tlie leading 
minds in this part of the State, who are interested in science- 
teaching, have realized in a most gratifying way the past and pres- 
ent importance of the Society's work in this direction. There is 
an unquestionable revival of interest in the movement for the 
efficient teaching of elementary science in the public schools, 
which has been steadily gathering strength for several years, and 
which maybe expected to develop still mure in the immediate 
future. 
All the courses of study carried on in this school for several 
years have been supported by the Trustee of the Lowell Fund, 
and the success of this important department has l)een in laige 
part due to this fact. 
The instruction given during the past year lias comjdeted the 
third of the four laboratory courses begun three years ago, and next 
year for the first titne in the history of the school we shall turn 
out a certain numVjer of persons who have had sufhcient instruction 
to qualify them to teach the elements of mineralogy, geology, and 
botany. The School has educated very nearly all of the teachers 
who are now doing active work in teaching natural history in the 
