EDITED BY F. B. SANBORN, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION, CONCORD, MASS. SPECIAL NOTICE.- During the absence of Mr. SANBORN in Europe, from Feb. 5 to Aug. 10, 1890, communications for him may be sent to REV. JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS, Brockton, Mass. Press of Geo. H. Ellis, 141 Franklin Street, Boston. CONTENTS OF JOURNAL No. XXVI. PAGE II. PAPERS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: I. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING OF THE DEFECTIVE CLASSES. DISCUSSION BY PRESIDENT GALLAUDET, GENERAL INTRODUCTION. The papers included in this number of the Journal of Social Science are less than half of the Saratoga papers of 1889. As some misapprehension may exist in regard to the publication of papers by the Association, it may here be said that all papers engaged for the General Meeting of the American Social Science Association are so engaged with the understanding that they may be printed in the Journal of Social Science, if the Council so decide. If, therefore, the writers choose to publish their papers elsewhere (to which the Council offers no objection), it must be with the stipulation that these papers may also be published in the Journal, at the option of the Council as to the time of publication. A list of all the addresses and papers at the meeting of 1889 is printed on pages vi and vii. Those belonging to the Department of Health are withheld until later. The papers of the Jurisprudence Department are here printed in full, except the address of Professor Wayland, which was not reported. It is hardly needful to say that the Association does not make itself responsible for the opinions expressed in the papers and reports read at Saratoga and published in this Journal. It furnishes an opportunity to present many views on many subjects; and each speaker is open to criticism at the meetings and afterwards, when his views are published. We aim specially at giving information collected by experienced and well-trained persons, so that whatever we print shall have a special value; but for the inferences drawn or the statements of opinion given we assume no responsibility. At the next General Meeting in Saratoga, from Sept. 1-5, 1890, a record of the progress made in Social Science during the twenty-five years that our Association will then have existed will be attempted, and will form, in some degree, the special interest of the meeting. It is the hope of the Committee on Membership and Finances, appointed at Saratoga last September (President WHITE and Messrs. F. J. KINGSBURY, ANSON PHELPS STOKES, J. G. BROOKS, and FRANCIS WAYLAND), that the number of members will by that time be largely increased, and some feasible plan adopted for combining the labors of many societies, clubs, and classes, for the study of Social Science, under the general direction of the American Social Science Association. BOSTON, Feb. 1, 1890. GENERAL MEETING OF 1889. The General Meeting of this Association for 1889 took place at the Bethesda Parish House, Saratoga, Tuesday, September 3-6, 1889. In consequence of the absence in Europe of the President, ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, LL.D., the Annual Address was omitted, and the sessions commenced on Tuesday morning, September 3, proceeding as follows: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. Department of Education. At 9.30 A.M. Address of the Chairman, F. B. SANBORN. At 10 A.M. A Paper by Rev. JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS, of Brockton, Mass., on Economic and Social Education in France, the Le Play Society, and its Organ, "La Réforme Sociale." At II A.M. A Discussion on Industrial Education for Defectives. At 12 M. A Paper by Miss ALICE R. COOKE, of Sandwich, Mass., on Training Insane Women in Domestic Industry. At 8 P.M. Report of the General Secretary, F. B. SANBORN, of Concord, Mass. At 8.30 P.M. An Address by Hon. GEORGE HOADLY, LL.D., of New York, on The Effect of Recent Judicial Decisions on the Constitutional Guarantees of the Right of Property. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. Department of Health. At 9 A.M. Remarks by the Chairman of the Department, Dr. H. HOLBROOK CURTIS, of New York. At 9.30 A.M. A Paper by Dr. PLINY EARLE, of Northampton, Mass., on Popular Fallacies concerning the Insane. At IO A.M. A Report by Dr. STEPHEN SMITH, of New York, on The Com; mitment and Care of the Insane, followed by a Discussion. At 11.30 A.M. A Paper by Dr. LOUISE FISKE BRYSON, of New York, on The Dangerous Classes and the Modern Doctor. At 12.30 P.M. A Paper by Dr. FREDERICK PETERSON, of New York, on Electricity as a Death Penalty. At 8 P.M. A Paper by Rev. CHARLES R. TREAT, of New York, on Burial Customs in their Relation to Health (illustrated by the stereopticon). At 9 P.M. A Paper by Dr. CHARLES A. HARVEY, of New York, on The Best Sanitary Disposition of the Dead. |