Excerpt from Journal of Social Science, 1870: Containing the Transactions of the American Association
Industrial Schools in connection with common-school education, and of Nautical Schools for the commercial marine, and plans for the establishment of such are in the course of preparation. The low condition of American chartography and the means of improving it, as well as the shortcomings of the text-books used in our public schools, constitute further subjects of enquiry.
The principal subject now occupying the attention of the Standing Committee on Health is the publication, under the auspices of the Association, of popular tracts on sanitary topics.
In the department of Economy, the principal undertaking is the preparation of a hand-book for immigrants, the proposed character of which was described in the first number of the journal. The collection of material for it has been progress ing for some months.
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