ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND 



AFFILIATED SOCIETIES^ 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The Washington Academy of Sciences will give a series of lectures in the 

 auditorium of the New National Museum, to which the public is invited. The 

 first four of these lectures will be given at 4.45 P.M. and the last will be held at 

 8.30 in the evening. All these lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides. 

 The program is as follows : 



Thursday, March 18 : The Volcano Kilauea in action. Akthttr L. Dat, Director 

 of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution. 



Tliursday, March 25: Nematodes, their relations to mankind and to agriculture, 



N. A. Cobb, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 

 Thursday, April 1: High explosives and their effects. Charles E. Munroe, 



Dean of Graduate Studies, George Washington University. 

 Thursday, April 8: Insects and their relation to difsease. W. D. Hunter, of the 



Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 

 Thursday, April 15 : The Earth. R. S. Woodward, President of the Carnegie 



Institution. 



Saturday, March 20: The Biological Society, at the Cosmos Club, at 

 8 p.m. 



Wednesday, March 24: Tiie Geological Society, at, the Cosmos Club, 



at 8 p.m. Program: 

 Symposium on the factors producing change in position, of the Htrand~line during 



Fleistocence and Post-Pleistocence. 

 Joseph Barrell: Factors in strand-line movement and their results during Ike 



Fleistocence and Post-Pi eXstocence. 30 minutes. 

 W. .T. Humphreys: The effect of glaciation and de-glaciation on the volume of 



oceanic water . 20 minutes. 

 R. S. Woodward: Discussion. 



Satui-day, March 27: The Philosophical Society, at the Cosmos Clul), 

 at 8.15 p.m. Program: 



C. G. Abbot: Recent progress in astronomy. 30 minute.^. 



L. J. Briggs : A new method for measuring gmvity at sea. ."iO nunutes. 



Wednesday, March 31: The Washington' Society of Engineers, at 

 th6 Cosmos Club, at 8 p.m. 



Thursday, April 1: The Entomological Society-, at the Saengerbund 

 Hall, at 8 p.m. 



Saturday, April 3: The Bio!o«:ical Society, at the Cosmos Club, at 8 

 p.m. 



iThe progKims of the ineetiags of thfi affiliateii soc-i-^*'' ' "n 'Ki-! iia;:e (f sent to the 



e<lHGis by the first and Hlteenth clays of each month. 



