I propose in this paper to deal with the development during the last twenty or thirty years of the dominating ideas of the reform of mathematical teaching in Germany, and must beg for your indulgence if the theme is one which is already familiar.

In the Mathematical Gazette of December last there appeared a translation of the so-called Meraner Lehrplan of 1905, which, with the appended notes, formed a kind of Declaration of Eights of the Reform Party. It is my intention to give some account of the movement which led to its publication, to indicate briefly the substance of these appended notes, and to give some details of the way in which the general ideas have been introduced into the curricula.