ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETINGS OF THE. ACADEMY AND 



AFFILIATED SOCIETIES 1 



The Washington Academy f Sciences announces a series of illustrated 

 lectures on nutrition open to the public to be given on Friday after- 

 noons in April 1916 at 4 :45 o'clock in the auditorium of the new National 

 Museum (Tenth street entrance). The lecturers are men distinguished 

 for their contributions to this important subject in which great advances 

 have recently been made. 



The lecturers and the subjects of their addresses are as follows: 



April 7: Dr. Eugene F. DtjBois, Medical Director, Russell Sage Institute 

 of Pathology, New York : The basal food requirement of man. 



April 14: Dr. Graham Ltjsk, Professor of Physiology, Cornell University 

 Medical College: Nutrition and food economics. 



April 21 : Dr. E. B. Forbes, Chief, Department of Nutrition Ohio Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station : Investigations on the mineral metab- 

 ' olism of animals. 



April 28: Dr. Carl Voegtlin, TJ. S. Public Health Service, Washington: 

 The relation of the vitamines to nutrition in health and disease. 



Wednesday, April 12: The Geological Society, at the Cosmos Club, 

 at 8 p. m. Program: 



J. S. Diller: The geology of the Lassen Peak region, California. Illustrated, 

 20 minutes. 



Arthur L. Day : The volcanic phenomena of Lassen Peak. Illustrated, 40 minutes. 



Friday, April 14 : The Washington Society pf Engineers, at the Cosmos 

 Club, at 8 p. m. Program: 



Lieut. -Col. George P. Howell, Corps of Engineers: The selection, laying out 

 and preparation of camps and cantonments; the service of general construction, 

 and the special services, including all public work of an engineering nature 

 which may b.e required in a territory under military control. 



Tuesday, April 18: The Anthropological Society, in the west study- 

 room of the District Public Library, at 8 p. m. Program: 



Annual meeting for the election of officers, etc. Address of the President John 

 R. Swanton: The influence of inheritance on human cidlure. 



Wednesday, April 19: The Washington Society of Engineers, at the 

 Cosmos Club, at 8 p. m. Program: 



John F. Hayford, Dean of the Engineering School of Northwestern University : 

 Engineering Education. 



■The programs of the meetings of the affiliated societies will appear on this page if sent io the 

 editors by the first and fifteenth days oi each month. 



