-J. L. WRIGHT has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Canal Dover, Ohio.

-WM. UNGER has succeeded Mr. Baker as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Minerva, Ohio.

——C. S. CHERRINGTON has been elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of New Lexington, Ohio.

W. W. PRINGLE, of Oberlin, has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Genoa, Ohio.

—À. V. JOHNSON has succeeded W. H. Hill as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Hanoverton, Ohio.

--N. L. GLOVER will continue to teach music in Wooster, Ohio, one day a week, at a salary of $400 a year.

-JENNIE M. THOMPSON has been re-elected teacher in the Grammar School at Ravenna, Ohio. Salary $750.

-D. D. PICKETT has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Ravenna, Ohio. Salary $1800.

-AARON GRADY will remain Superintendent of the Sciotoville Schools next year, at a salary of $67.50 per month.

-Pres. CUTLER, of Western-Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, sailed July 7th for Europe, to be gone six months.

--SUSAN GIVEN has been elected second assistant and teacher of Natural Sciences in the Wooster High School.

--I. M. CLEMENS retires from the Superintendence of the Painesville Public Schools to engage in worldly business.

-C. P. ROGERS has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Marshalltown, Iowa. Salary $1800.

-MARY E. PARSONS has been re-elected first assistant and teacher of Greek and Latin in the Wooster High School.

-JENNIE A. BOYD has been re-elected Principal of the Wooster High School. She teaches the mathematical branches.

-THE Rev. Geo. Vincent was inaugurated President of Franklin College at New Athens, Ohio, the latter part of June.

-F. J. BARNARD has been elected successor of A. C. Tyler as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Middletown, Ohio.

-C. W. OAKES has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Norwalk, Ohio, for two years. Salary $1800.

-S. G. Cosgrove will serve his third year as Superintendent in the village of Brooklyn, adjacent to Cleveland. Salary $1200.

-MISSES M. W. Sutherland, Anna Gilmore, and Anna Moncrieff have been re-elected Assistants in the Steubenville High School.

-W. F. TORRENCE has closed his labors as Superintendent of the Public Schools of St. Mary's, Ohio, after ten years' service.

-SAMUEL FINDLEY, Superintendent of the Akron Public Schools, has received from Buchtel College the honorary degree of A. M.

GEO. W. HARPER, Principal of the Woodward High School, at Cincinnati, Ohio, has gone on a geological tour to Tennessee.

-Mr. CARTMAN, of Lancaster, has been elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Morrow, Ohio, in place of T. J. Wyscarver.

-GEO. R. HOUSEL, of Akron, Ohio, has been employed to teach music in the Schools of Cuyahoga Falls, at a salary of $30 a month.

-ALSTON ELLIS has been reappointed member of the Hamilton (Ohio) local Board of Examiners for three years from August 1, 1877.

-Dr. E. E. WHITE, President of Purdue University, at Lafayette Ind., sailed for Europe June 23, to be gone about nine weeks.

-W. D. SHIPMAN who recently graduated from Buchtel College has been chosen tutor of Latin and Greek in the same institution.

-Dr. S. H. THOMSON, late of Hanover College, Indiana, has gone to California to take charge of Alexander Academy at Healdsburgh.

-SELIM H. PEABODY, of Chicago, received the honorary degree of Ph. D. from the University of Vermont, at Bennington, June 27th.

-THE Rev. Watson Clark died at Sycamore, Ill., June 10th. He was for many years a teacher in the Public High School of Ironton, Ohio.

-THE Rev. John S. C. ABBOTT, author of the apologetic Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, died at Fair Haven, Conn., June 17, at the age of 71.

-A. M. Rowe has been re-elected Principal of the Steubenville (Ohio) High School. He has already served in the same position seven years.

-A. BRADLEY, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has added $6,000 to a previous gift of $9,000, to endow a professorship in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pa.

-H. F. ACKER, the last year Superintendent of the Public Schools of New Lexington, Ohio, is to take charge of Madison Academy at Mt. Perry, Ohio.

—C. W. BENNETT has been re-elected for three years as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Piqua, Ohio. He has already served three years.

-Ex-Governor J. D. Cox, formerly Superintendent of the Public Schools of Warren, Ohio, has received the degree of LL. D. from Yale College.

-MISS C. A. STEWART, of Lima, has been elected Principal of the Akron High School, in place of Miss Maria Parsons who declined a reelection.

-HENRY NEWTON has been elected to the new Chair of Mines and Mine Engineering in the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Columbus.

-R. W. STEVENSON, of Columbus, was present at the Commencement Exercises in Norwalk, the scene of his ten years' labor before going to Columbus.

-THOS. HUNTER, President of the Normal College of New York, received the degree of Ph. D. from Williams College at its last Commencement.

-A. T. GOSHORN, late Director-General of the International Exhibi

tion, was made a Doctor of Laws by Marietta College, at its last Commencement.

-Prof. THEO. WORMLEY, of Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, has been appointed Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.

-F. G. STEELE of the Business College in Akron, has been engaged to teach Drawing and Penmanship in the Public Schools of Wooster and Cuyahoga Falls.

-WM. H. WYNN, of the Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy, from Wittenberg College, Ohio, June 28th.

-W. P COPE, late of Woodsfield, Ohio, and formerly of Columbiana, Ohio, will act, next year, as Professor of Mathematics in Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, Ohio.

-Pres. R. B. HAYES is now a double LL. D., having received the degree from Kenyon College when Governor of Ohio, and recently the same degree from Harvard University.

-A. A. McDONALD, Superintendent of the Public Schools of Toledo, Ohio, received the degree of A. M. from Washington and Jefferson College at its last Commencement.

-DUANE DOTY, Assistant Superintendent of the Public Schools of Chicago, has been appointed chief Superintendent to serve out the unexpired time of J. L. Pickard, resigned.

-Wm. Reeder, of Lilly Chapel, has been elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Milford, Clermont Co., Ohio. His predecessor at Milford, G. H. Hill, has served six years.

-J. W. ZELLER, of Ada, has been elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Findlay, Ohio. Mr. C. F. Palmer, his predecessor at Findlay, has gone into the legal profession.

-S. S. HAMILL has resigned his position in the High School at Cincinnati, and accepted the chair of History, English Literature, and Elocution in Illinois College, at Jacksonville, Ill.

Pres. I. W. ANDREWS has been connected with Marietta College since 1838; until 1855 as Professor of Mathematics and since that time as President. He served from 1838 to 1839 as a Tutor.

RICHARD GRANT WHITE dislikes Spelling Reform as much as a turkey does a red rag. He thinks the present spelling of English can be learned with great ease, and that poor spellers are rare.

-THE Rev. Irving J. Marratt, now pursuing his studies in Leipsic, Germany, has been elected successor of Prof. Orris in the chair of the Greek Language and Literature in Marietta College, Ohio.

——S. S. WHEELER has resigned his position as Principal of the Salem High School to engage in the study of law in Cleveland. D. Butterfield, a graduate of Wooster University, has been elected his successor.

---OELLA PATTERSON, formerly of Steubenville, Ohio, and for the last two years a teacher in Beaver Seminary, has been elected to the chair of English Literature in Westminster College, at New Wilmington, Pa.

-O. C. HUBBELL resigned his position as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Bedford, Ohio, after the salary was reduced from $800 to $600, and accepted a like position at Chagrin Falls, at a salary of $800.

-CHAS. R. SHREVE, who has so long been Superintendent of the Public Schools of Martin's Ferry, Ohio, was in 1849 a teacher in the Grammar School of Massillon, Ohio, when Lorin Andrews was Superintendent.

-C. W. SMALLEY, the usually-intelligent London correspondent of the New-York Tribune, made a fool of himself in his letter of June 2, by an attempt to ridicule the Spelling-Reform Conference that had just been held in London.

---MARY COULSON has been re-elected as teacher of the Primary Department of the Public Schools of Wyoming, Ohio, at a salary of $600 a year. This salary is a good standard for Boards of Education to adopt for good primary teachers.

-E. A. GASTMAN has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Decatur, Ill. He has already served seventeen years as Superintendent in Decatur. He has also been elected successor of Dr. Sewall at the Normal University in Illinois.

-C. C. DAVIDSON has been re-elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of New Lisbon, Ohio, and Ada Lodge as his assistant. A. R. Martin, Carrie Sherer, Eva Forbes, Lydia Ogden, Lou Roach, and Adelaide Young, are the other teachers elected.

-ARTEMAS MARTIN, whose name is so familiar to mathematicians in this country and in England, has received the honorary degree of A. M. from Yale College. He is a bachelor market gardener, aged 42, who resides with his parents and sisters about a mile from Erie, Pa.

BOOK NOTICES.

MANUAL OF THE VERTEBRATES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES, including the District east of the Mississippi River, and north of North Carolina and Tennessee, exclusive of Marine Species. By David Starr Jordan, M. S., M. D., Professor of Natural History in Butler University, and in Indiana State Medical College. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 1876. Pages 342. Price $2.00.

We have space this month for a bare reference to this work, having to omit matter already in type to make room for this short notice. The book is just such a one as teachers need who are interested in the subject of which it treats. We saw a practical illustration of the value of the book at Put-in-Bay recently, when it was used to classify a painted turtle that a boy had caught. The classification was skilfully performed by Mr. H. H. Vail, of the firm of Van Antwerp, Bragg, & Co. We shall probably refer again to this work in a subsequent issue.

PROGRAMME

OF THE

Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the National Educational Association, held at Louisville, Ky., August 14, 15, and 16, 1877.

TUESDAY, 10 O'Clock A. M.

GENERAL ASSOCIATION.

1. Opening Prayer; Rev. J. L. BURROWS, D. D.

2. Address of Welcome; Mayor JACOBS. Response.

3. President's Annual Address. Discussion. Appointment of Committees. Miscellaneous Business.

TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENCE.

1. Report of Committee on City Forms of School Reports.

2. Report of Committee on State Forms of School Reports.

3. Report of Committee on the Paris Exposition.

4. Appointment of Committee on Nomination of Officers of the Department.

DEPARTMENT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS.

1. Opening Address; LOUIS SOLDAN, Principal, Normal School, St. Louis, Mo. 2. Paper. The Range and Limits of Normal-School Work; EDWARD C. HEWETT, President, Illinois State Normal University.

3. Discussion. Should Normal Schools be Exclusively Professional Schools. 4. Appointment of Committee on Nomination of Officers of the Department. DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

1. Opening Address; Hon. H. A. M. HENDERSON, Vice-President, State Superintendent, Kentucky.

2. Paper. The English Language in Elementary Training; Prof. Z. RICHARDS, Washington, D. C.

3. Paper. Moral Training in Schools; Rev. R. H. RIVERS, D. D., Pulaski, Tenn. 4. Appointment of Committee on Nomination of Officers of the Department. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER INSTRUCTION.

1. Paper. The Class System; President NOAH PORTER, LL. D., Yale College. 2. Paper. The Elective System; Prof. W. LEROY BROUN, LL. D., Vanderbilt University.

3. Appointment of Committee on Nomination of Officers of the Department. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

1. Opening Address by the President, Prof. MANLY MILES, Lansing, Mich. 2. Paper. Relations of the Common Schools to Industrial Education; Hon. S. R. THOMPSON, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Lincoln, Neb.

3. Paper. Relations of Labor to Industrial Education; Prof. GEORGE T. FAIRCHILD, A. M., Michigan State Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich.

4. Appointment of Committee on Nomination of Officers of the Department.

TUESDAY, 8 O'Clock P. M.

GENERAL ASSOCIATION.

1. Announcement of the Committee on the Nomination of Officers. ous Business.

Miscellane

2. Paper. Silent Forces in Education; Prof. J. F. BLACKINTON, Boston, Mass. 3. Paper. The Study of English as Introductory to the Study of Latin and Greek; Prof. THOMAS R. PRICE, M. A., University of Virginia.

WEDNESDAY, 9 O'Clock A. M.

GENERAL ASSOCIATION.

1. Opening Prayer. Unfinished Business.

2. Paper. The Relation of the Preparatory or Grammar School to College and University; Prof. W. R. WEBB, Culleoka, Tenn.

3. Paper. The Relation of the College to the High School; Hon. J. W. DICKINSON, Secretary, State Board of Education, Mass.