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was given on Wednesday evenings, the second on Tuesday evenings, 

 and the third on Saturday evenings, not more than three in any 

 month, from November 7 to April 14. The titles of the lectures in 

 the members' course were, " Sculpture," by Mr. Lorado Taf t ; " Paint- 

 ing," by Dr. Christian Brinton; "Architecture," by Prof. A. D. F. 

 Hamlin ; " The dance," by Mr. Troy Kinney ; " Dress," by Mrs. John 

 W. Alexander; and "Pageantry," by Mr. Joseph Lindon Smith. 

 The other two courses were each given by a single person. The public 

 course, by Mr. Frank Alvah Parsons, was divided as follows : " His- 

 toric decorative art periods and their relation to our modern life"; 

 " The Italian decorative styles and their influence on all subsequent 

 art periods " ; " The Italian Eenaissance in France under Francis I, 

 Henry II, III, and Louis XIV, and their use and abuse in modern 

 life"; "The periods of Louis XV, XVI and Empire as they may 

 be effectively used now " ; " The English Eenaissance under Henry 

 VIII, Elizabeth and the Stuart Kings, with their American adapta- 

 tions"; "The Georgian and Colonial periods and our present day 

 problem." The music series was by Prof. Daniel Gregory Mason, 

 with the following titles: "Romanticism in music"; "Franz Peter 

 Schubert " ; " Eobert Schumann " ; " Felix Mendelssohn " ; " Frederic 

 Chopin." 



The Washington Academy of Sciences was sponsor for a series of 

 5 popular lectures delivered in the auditorium on March 18 and 25, 

 and April 1, 8 and 15, as follows : " The volcano Kilauea in action," 

 by Dr. Arthur L. Day ; " Nematodes, their relations to mankind and 

 to agriculture," by Dr. N. A. Cobb; "High explosives and their 

 eifects," by Prof. Charles E. Munroe ; " Insects and their relation 

 to disease," by Mr. W. D. Hunter; and "The earth," by Dr. E. S. 

 Woodward. Under the joint auspices of the same organization and 

 the Biological Society of Washington, two lectures were given, on 

 January 19 and March 11, respectively. The first, by Dr. John Hjort, 

 Commissioner of Fisheries of Norway, was on the subject of " Migra- 

 tions and fluctuations of the marine animals of western Europe"; 

 the second, by Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, of the Field Museum of 

 Natural History, on "Fur seals and other animals on the Pribilof 

 Islands." The former was illustrated by lantern slides, the latter 

 by the same and by moving pictures. The Washington Society of the 

 Archaeological Institute of America provided two illustrated lec- 

 tures, one on December 12, by Prof. Walter Dennison, of Swarth- 

 more College, treating of "The battlegrounds of Julius Caesar in 

 France and Belgium"; the other, on March 19, by Mr. Frank Ed- 

 ward Johnson, on "The Phoenician and Eoman art treasures of 

 Tunisia." Under the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia 

 two lectures on bird life were given, one on January 26 by Mr. Gorst, 



