STANDING COMMITTEE.

Prof. Alexis Caswell.

Prof. Joseph Lovering.

Prof. John Leconte.
Dr. A. L. Elwyn.

Prof. Jeffries Wyman.

Objects of the Association. — It is the design of this Association, by means of periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of the United States; to give a stronger and more general impulse, and a more systematic direction, to scientific research in our country; and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.

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Members. The following persons are considered as eligible to a membership of this Association : Gentlemen belonging to scientific societies or learned bodies having in view any of the objects of the Association, and publishing transactions; collegiate professors; also civil engineers and architects who have been employed in the construction or superintendence of public works; persons not embraced in the above provisions, upon recommendation in writing by two members, nomination by the Standing Committee, and election by a majority of the members present.

Place of Meeting.—The time and place of holding the annual meetings are determined by the Standing Committee, subject, however, to the ratification of the Association. Last year the meeting was at Montreal. The next session (1858) will be at Baltimore, commencing the last Wednesday in April.

Publications. The proceedings of each meeting, embracing all the papers, discussions, and other transactions recommended by the Standing Committee, are published under the supervision of the Permanent Secretary.

F. A. Sawyer, Boston, Mass.

Councillors.

John W. Bulkley, Brooklyn, N. Y. Joshua Bates, Boston, Mass.
Samuel F. Dyke, Bath, Me.
Thomas Sherwin, Boston, Mass.
D. B. Hagar, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Jacob Batchelder, Salem, Mass.
Elbridge Smith, Norwich, Ct.
George S. Boutwell, Groton, Mass.
John Kingsbury, Providence, R. I.
George Allen, Jr., Boston, Mass.
Charles Hammond, Groton, Mass.
D. N. Camp, New Britain, Ct.
R. S. Rust, Manchester, N. H.
Marshall Conant, Bridgewater, Mass.

Recording Secretary.
John Kneeland, Roxbury, Mass.

Daniel Mansfield, Cambridge, Mass.
D. P. Galloup, Lowell, Mass.
A. A. Gamwell, Providence, R. I.
Charles Hutchins, Providence, R. I.
Moses Woolson, Portland, Me.
Alpheus Crosby, Salem, Mass.
Samuel J. Pike, Somerville, Mass.
J. W. Allen, Norwich, Ct.
A. P. Stone, Plymouth, Mass.
G. N. Bigelow, Framingham, Mass.
Richard Edwards, St. Louis, Mo.
James N. McElligott, New York.

The general object of the American Institute of Instruction is the diffusion of useful knowledge in regard to education. It aims more particularly to furnish the means, by the co-operation of its members, of obtaining an exact knowledge of the state of education in different parts of the country, to raise the qualifications of teachers, to advance the science of teaching, and to enlist on the side of popular education the highest and best influences in the nation.

Its annual meetings have been held in all the principal cities in New England. The sessions continue three or four days, for holding discussions and listening to lectures. Twenty-five volumes of its proceedings have been published, containing a vast amount of valuable information relating to all departments of education. The last meeting was held in Manchester, N. H., August 18, 19, and 20, 1857. The time and place of the next annual meeting are to be fixed by the Board of Directors, who will give due notice in the public journals.

V. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NORMAL

SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS.

THIS Association originated in a meeting held in New York city, August 30, 1855. A few gentlemen, teachers in Normal Schools, came together for the purpose of discussing practical questions relating to the management of these institutions. The discussions were conducted by Messrs. Woolworth, of Albany, N. Y., Philbrick, of New Britain, Ct., Colburn, of Providence, R. I., Wells, of Westfield, Mass., and Hazeltine, of New York city.

Messrs. Woolworth and Wells were appointed a committee to call another meeting in August, 1856. This meeting was held at Springfield, Mass., on the 21st and 22d of that month. The first exercise was an Address, in the City Hall, upon the Life and Character of Nicholas Tillinghast, first Principal of the Normal School at Bridgewater, Mass., by Richard Edwards, of Salem, Mass. On the 22d, Rev. William Ormiston, of Toronto, C. W., addressed the Association, at Hampden Hall, upon the History of Education. In the afternoon, William F. Phelps, of Trenton, N. J., gave an Address upon the History of the Normal School in that State. At this meeting the following officers were chosen President, William F. Phelps, of N. J.; Vice-Presidents, Alpheus Crosby, of Mass., George N. Bigelow, of Mass., David N. Camp, of Conn.; Executive Committee, William Ormiston, of Canada West, David H. Cochran, of N. Y., Dana P. Colburn, of R. I.; Secretary, Richard Edwards, of Mass. ;* Treasurer, John W. Dickinson, of Mass.

The next meeting was held at Albany, N. Y., August 6th, 1857. An Address was delivered by Hon. Henry Barnard, of Ct., on the Importance of Enlarging the Sphere of Normal Instruction. Communications were made in respect to the Condition and Prospects of Normal Schools in Michigan, by Chancellor Tappan; in Connecticut, by Prof. Camp; in New Jersey, by Prof. Cooke and J. Whitehead, Esq.; in Massachusetts, by Prof. Crosby; in Illinois, by Hon. W. H. Powell; and in New York by Prof. Woolworth.

The next meeting is to be held at Albany, on the same day with that of the next annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Education. No changes were made in the board of

officers.

Now at St. Louis, Mo.

This Association is designed to be purely a professional one, and it therefore embraces among its members only those who are practically engaged in the work of education.

Any gentleman who is regularly occupied in teaching in a public or private elementary school, common school, high school, academy, scientific school, college, or university, or who is regularly employed as a private tutor, as the editor of an educational journal, or as a superintendent of schools, is eligible to membership. Applications for admission to membership are made or referred to the Board of Directors, or such committee of their own number as they shall appoint; and all who may be recommended by them, and accepted by a majority vote of the members present, shall be entitled to the privileges of the Association, upon paying two dollars and signing the constitution.

Upon the recommendation of the Board of Directors, gentlemen may be elected as honorary members by a two-thirds vote of the members present, and as such shall have all the rights of regular members, except those of voting and holding office.

Ladies engaged in teaching may, on the recommendation of the Board of Directors, become honorary members, and shall thereby possess the right

of presenting, in the form of written essays (to be read by the Secretary or any other member whom they may select), their views upon the subject assigned for discussion.

There is an annual fee of one dollar. If any one omits paying his fee for four years, his connection with the Association ceases.

A person eligible to membership may become a life-member by paying, at once, ten dollars.

The next annual meeting of the Association will be held at Cincinnati, the second Wednesday in August, 1858.

VII. MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT.

Major Richard Delafield, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A.,
Superintendent and Commandant.

ACADEMIC STAFF.