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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.