PROCEEDINGS. XXIII 



SATURDAY LECTURES, 1887. 



The sixth course of Saturday Lectures was begun March 12, 

 1887, under the auspices of the Biological, Philosophical, and 

 Anthropological Societies. The lectures were delivered in the 

 lecture hall of the National Museum, eight being given on Sat 

 urday afternoons, and four on Wednesday evenings with the aid 

 of the stereopticon. The programme was as follows : 



March 12: Gen. A. W. GREELY, U. S. A. Animals of the Arctic Region. 



March 19: Capt. C. E. DUTTON, U. S. A. Earthquakes. 



March 23 : Mr. W. J. McGEE. The Charleston Earthquake. (Evening 

 lecture.) 



March 26 : Prof. OTIS T. MASON. The Natural History of Human Arts. 



April 2 : Dr. B. E. FERNOW. Our Forestry Problem. 



April 6: Mr. THOMAS WILSON. Pre-historic Man in Europe. (Even 

 ing lecture.) 



April id : Dr. EDWARD M. HARTWELL. The Aims and Effects of 

 Physical Training. 



April 20: Dr. FRANK BAKER. Facial Expression. (Evening lecture.) 



April 23: Miss H. C. DfiS. ABBOTT. The. Chemistry of the Higher 

 and Lower Plants. 



April jo: Prof. HARRISON ALLEN. Rights and Lefts. 



May 4: Prof. S. P. LANGLEY. Sunlight and the Earth's Atmosphere. 

 (Evening lecture.) 



May 7 : Dr. J. H. BRYAN. The Mechanism of the Human Voice. 



BAIRD MEMORIAL MEETING. 



January n, 1888, a meeting commemorative of the life and 

 scientific work of Prof. Spencer Fullerton Baird was held in the 

 lecture hall of the Columbian University, under the joint auspices 

 of the Anthropological, Biological, and Philosophical Societies of 

 Washington. A very large number of persons was in attendance. 

 Mr. Garrick Mallery, President of the Philosophical Society, pre 

 sided, and the following addresses were delivered : 



RELATIONS BETWEEN PROFESSOR BAIRD AND THE PARTICI 

 PATING SOCIETIES, by Mr. Garrick Mallery. 



PROFESSOR BAIRD AS ADMINISTRATOR, by Mr. William B. 

 Taylor, of the Smithsonian Institution. 



