SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY- -(Continued.)
Miss NELLIE E. HASTINGS, Hyde Street School.
Miss J. H. MARTIN, Hyde Street School.

Miss LAURA A. HUMPHRIES, Hyde Street School.
Miss D. S. PRESCOTT, Mason Street School.
Miss MATILDA S. TIEBOUT, Mason Street School.
Miss GERALDINE PRICE, Mason Street School.
Miss S. J. WHITE, Mason Street School.

Miss H. B. CUSHING, Hayes' Valley School.

Miss MARY M. BUFFINGTON, Hayes' Valley School.

Miss FANNY A. STOWELL.

Miss CELESTE M. POTTER.

Miss H. A. BOWERS.

Miss ANNIE B. CHALMERS.

Miss FRANCES E. REYNOLDS.

Miss M. A. COOLEY.

Miss ALVIRA HOLMES.

Miss LOTTIE A. PRITCHARD.

Miss E. EMERSON.

Miss A. CHILD.

Miss ALVINA LOWDER..

Miss MARY E. NOYES.

Miss MARY A. BUFFUM.

Miss LAURA T. FOWLER.

Miss MARY MCLEOD.

Miss JANE M. A. HURLEY.

MELVILLE COTTLE, Stockton.
L. W. CRAWFORD, Burwood.
WM. T. ELLIOTT, Stockton.
H. E. FOSTER, Stockton.
JOSEPH HOLDEN, Stockton.
J. S. HAMMOND, Lockford.
L. W. MCGLAUFLIN, Stockton.
E. PLUMMER, Lockford.

F. W. WOODWARD.

Mrs. ANNIE COWAN, Stockton.
Mrs. S. C. COLLINS, Stockton.
Mrs. E. A. MITCHELL, Stockton.
Miss CAROLINE DUNBAR, Stockton.
Miss CLARA B. LOOMIS.

Miss ROSIE LYNXWILER, Stockton.

SAN MATEO COUNTY.

WM. C. CROOK..........
ST. C. NYE, Half Moon Bay.
Mrs. E. WRIGHT, Redwood City.

S. S. WILES

County Superintendent, Woodside. Miss BETTY STEVENSON, Redwood City.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY.

REV. R. L. HAMILTON.....

J. J. BOWEN, San José.

S. BUSH, San José.

.County Superintendent, San José. ...........City Superintendent, San José. Mrs. S. E. SEAGRAVE, Santa Clara. Miss J. E. ARAM, San José.

JOSEPH A. BURLINGAME, San José. Miss HATTIE BEVANS, San José.

GORDON T. CHASE, San José.
JOHN FOSHAY, New Almaden.
W. C. HART, San José.

C. MORTON, San José.

W. A. PARKHURST, San José.
Mrs. M. L. ATKINSON, Alviso.
Mrs. J. E. BASSET, San José.
Mrs. M. C. HART, San José.

Miss VIRGINIA BEVERLY.

Miss NELLIE C. CORNWELL, San José.
Miss S. P. FABING, Santa Clara.
Miss ELLEN J. HADLOCK, San José.
Miss ANASTASIA W. SLAVAN, Santa

Clara.

Miss E. B. SKINNER, San José.
Miss N. D. SKINNER, San José.

WILLIAM R. BRADSHAW, Nicolaus. Miss CARRIE STEVENS, Yuba City.

TUOLUMNE COUNTY.

....County Superintendent, Big Oak Flat.

M. A. RALPH, Sonora.

FRED. SALTER, Sonora.

Mrs. E. BROWN, Green Springs.

Mrs. GEORGE B. KEYES, Jacksonville.

Miss H. M. BURNE, Columbia.

Miss A. M. FITCH, Sonora.

Miss HELEN E. MARTIN, Columbia.

YOLO COUNTY.

ALBERT FOUCH, Woodland.

J. LOUIS WILBUR, Woodland.

WRIGHT FIERO, Sacramento City (P.O.) Mrs. H. M. WILBUR, Woodland.

GEORGE HALL, Woodland.
R. H. PLUMMER, Woodland.

Mrs. E. M. Smith, Woodland.
Miss MARY H. SLAVAN, Grafton.

Miss C. A. TEMPLETON, Woodland.

AZRO L. MANN, Marysville.
FRED. M. PAULY, Long Bar.
D. C. STONE, Marysville.
Mrs. J. PALMER, Long Bar.

YUBA COUNTY.

Miss H. A. BELCHER, Marysville.
Miss LOTTIE L. HYDE, Marysville.
Miss MARY E. JEWETT, Marysville.
Miss ANNIE WILSON, Marysville.

Miss S. A. WILSON, Long Bar.

NEVADA TERRITORY.

JOHN A. COLLINS, (County Superintendent, Storey County,) Virginia City. WM E. MELVILLE, Virginia City. Miss K. F. CHILD, Genoa, Carson Valley. Miss M. A. COOLEY, Carson City.

Total number of members........

463.

Introductory Remarks.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE.

Mr. SWETT said:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND FELLOW TEACHERS:

The Superintendent of Public Instruction is made by law ex officio President of the State Institute, and in taking the Chair to preside over your proceedings I congratulate you on the favorable auspices under which we assemble. I was prepared to expect a large number of Teachers present, but on the opening day I did not expect to see so imposing an assemblage. I said we meet under favorable auspices: were all communication with the East cut off, it would be hard to realize to-day that we were not living in a time of profound peace. The circumstances under which we assemble are more favorable than they would be in any other State in this Union. A few days ago I received an invitation to speak before the American Institute of Instruction, to assemble at Boston. I sent them word that I could not come, but that I would soon send them the voice of the assembled Teachers of California; that we expected here an assemblage of Teachers no less intelligent, no less patriotic, than those which would assemble there; and that while they met at the great brain of the Public School System of the East, we were to assemble here at the great heart of the Public School System of the Pacific Coast; that if they met under the shadow of Bunker Hill, consecrated by the blood of Warren, and made memorable by the bones of those who fell in the great struggle for independence, we were to assemble here under the same flag, and in the shadow of Lone Mountain, where rest all that is mortal of Broderick and Baker, [applause,] men who fell in a struggle no less important in its action on future times than the early struggles for independence; that while Massachusetts could boast of a Banks and a Butler in this war, we also could boast of sending to the East our adopted son, Hooker, who is to lead the armies of the Union there, [applause,] and who to-day is bearing aloft the faith and the hopes of the nation, and, perhaps, our

national flag triumphantly victorious over those who are aiming to destroy the fabric of our Constitution and our Government. So I told them, and I think I did not speak unauthorized when I said that the Teachers of California would assemble with as much patriotism and as much devotion to freedom, and liberty, and the Union, as the Teachers who should assemble there. We have not, it is true, sent, like Illinois, three thousand Teachers into the army; nor like New York, a still larger number,but we hold them here, in our own State, to train the coming generation to be patriotic and true to the principles of our Government and our institutions. So, I say, we assemble under favorable auspices, and I trust and hope that the deliberations of this Institute will be conducted in a wise, prudent, and patriotic manner. We have nothing whatever to do with politics; we have much to do with patriotism, and much to do in bringing our Public School System to a full support of the Union and the Government that has given it to us and to our whole land. Had it not been for the wise forethought of the General Government in reserving the national lands for the support of Public Schools, we might not be assembled here to-day; and, when the history of the spirit of our Public Schools is so interwoven with every fibre of that flag under whose folds we meet, I cannot conceive how the Teachers of this Institute, as the representatives of the Public School System, can be otherwise than imbued with the spirit of patriotism.

We have assembled, fellow Teachers, for a week of hard work. By the programme you will perceive that the Institute will be in session at least nine hours a day. It may seem a hard task, but I suppose the Teachers who come from distant portions of the State are willing to devote all their time and all their energies, while they are here, to the purposes for which we meet. So far as was in my power, the exercises have been arranged. It remains for you now to fill out the programme, to give it vitality and life. With these few remarks I commit the success of this Institute to your hands. [Renewed applause.]

The Hon. Frank Soulé, who was announced on the Institute circular to deliver the opening lecture, was briefly excused by the President, on account of illness, and Professor Swezey, a graduate from the New York State Normal School, (Class of 1850,) was introduced to the Institute as the substitute, the President remarking that he had recently arrived in the State from the City of New York. The subject of Professor Swezey's address was: "State Normal Schools."

At twelve o'clock and thirty minutes, P. M., a recess was taken for one hour.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Institute met at one o'clock and thirty minutes, P. M. Mr. E. H. Holmes, from the Committee on Organization, reported the following for permanent officers and committees:

VICE PRESIDENTS:

S. B. OSBURN, County Supt. of Butte.
GEORGE TAIT, City Supt. of S. F.
A. H. GOODRICH, Co. Supt. of Placer.

J. A. CHITTENDEN, Co. Supt. of Nevada.
Dr. HENRY GIBBONS, of S. Francisco.
Hon. A. J. MOULDER, of S. Francisco.