OFFICERS OF SECTION OF PATENT, TRADE-MARK AND COPYRIGHT * Deceased. LAW 1917-1918. JOHN P. BARTLETT, Chairman. WALLACE R. LANE, Secretary, FORMER OFFICERS 1894-98-EDMUND WETMORE, Chairman. WILMARTH H. THURSTON, Secretary. 1898-99-JAMES H. RAYMOND, Chairman. 1899-01-FREDERICK P. FISH, Chairman. *ARTHUR STEUART, Secretary. 1901-03-*LESTER L. BOND, Chairman. MELVILLE CHURCH, Secretary. 1903-04-EDMUND WETMORE, Chairman. 1904-07-ROBERT S. TAYLOR, Chairman. 1911-12-ROBERT S. TAYLOR, Chairman. 1912-13-ROBERT H. PARKINSON, Chairman. 1913-17-ROBERT H. PARKINSON, Chairman. OFFICERS OF CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS 1917-1918. WILLIAM A. BLOUNT, President, Pensacola, Fla. STEPHEN H. ALLEN, Vice-President, GEORGE B. YOUNG, Secretary, Montpelier, Vt. W. O. HART, Treasurer, New Orleans, La. FORMER OFFICERS The first Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws was held at Saratoga Springs, New York, in August, 1892; the second at New York, New York, in November, 1892. Since then the Conference has been held annually at the place of and immediately preceding the meeting of the American Bar Association. Presidents. +1896-1900-*LYMAN D. BREWSTER..... Danbury, Connecticut. 1901-1909 *AMASA M. EATON..... .Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 1909-1912-WALTER GEORGE SMITH....Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1912-1915-CHARLES THADDEUS TERRY. New York, New York. 1915-1917-WILLIAM H. STAAKE. .Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WILLIAM A. BLOUNT. Pensacola, Florida. 1917 ..... Secretaries. 1895-1898-FREDERICK J. STIMSON..... 1914 Assistant Secretaries. 1896-1898-ALBERT E. HENSCHEL...... New York, New York. . Danbury, Connecticut. . Cincinnati, Ohio. 1905-1906-GLENDENNING B. GROESBECK. Cincinnati, Ohio. 1906-1907-BUCHANAN PERIN 1907-1910-FRANCIS A. HOOVER. 1910-1912-M. GRUNTHAL • Deceased. . Cincinnati, Ohio. .New York, New York. † Prior to 1896 the Conference was presided over by a Chairman. OFFICERS OF JUDICIAL SECTION 1917-1918. WILLIAM C. Hook, Chairman, JOHN T. TUCKER, Secretary, FORMER OFFICERS 1913-16-ORRIN N. CARTER, Chairman. GAYLORD LEE CLARK, Secretary. 1916-17-WILLIAM C. Hook, Chairman. GAYLORD LEE CLARK, Secretary. SECTION OF LEGAL EDUCATION SECRETARY'S MEMORANDUM. The Section of Legal Education opened its proceedings in the Court of Appeals Room, Convention Hall, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on Monday, September 3, 1917, at 10.30 A. M. Sessions of the Section were also held in the evening of Monday, September 3, and in the afternoon of Tuesday, September 4. Hampton L. Carson, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Section, presided. The six formal addresses delivered before the Section follow this memorandum. A full report of the proceedings of the Section of Legal Education, at this meeting, will be found in a pamphlet issued by the Section. Copies of this pamphlet may be procured upon application to the Secretary of the Section, Charles M. Hepburn, Bloomington, Ind. ADDRESS OF THE CHAIRMAN. HAMPTON L. CARSON, OF PENNSYLVANIA. SUGGESTIONS AS TO A METHODICAL STUDY OF ENGLISH LEGAL LITERATURE. I shall not detain you this afternoon with any review of the work of the Section of Legal Education, nor shall I attempt to forecast further plans to secure what has been so satisfactorily accomplished. I shall invite your attention to a few thoughts intended to promote the historical study of the law, embodied in the form of suggestions as to a methodical study of English legal literature. In an address before the Royal Geographical Society in February, 1915, entitled "The Mental Training of a Traveler," that highly educated and versatile scholar, Lord Viscount Bryce, made this striking remark: "If a man enters the finest picture gallery in Europe, knowing nothing at all about the painters whose work is there displayed, their dates, the schools they belong to, or the subjects they painted, he will derive very little benefit, and will carry away, at most, a confused impression; but a little preliminary study will enable him to appreciate and enjoy pictures in a way which will be profitable all the rest of his life." So it is when the student enters upon the study of the law. He is entering a vast and to him a strange department of knowledge. The study of the past must be made available to interpret or explain the present. If he can be supplied with a well-drawn chart of legal literature, displaying the order and the characteristics of successive epochs of development, his subsequent studies will be aided by intelligent comprehension of the direction and special features of the paths he is about to pursue. It is not necessary at this time to argue the importance of studying the law from the viewpoints of history. The advantages of such a course are now generally conceded; but there is room, I think, for a concise statement of the method to be pursued in instructing students how to approach the vast material at their disposal, so as to secure definite results. The student body and even a large proportion of our teaching force stand in the presence of a large law library in a state of |