34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1884. 



January 19, Prof. Edward S. Morse : Social life among the Japanese. 

 January 26, Maj. J. W. Powell: Win-tun Mythology. 



SECOND COURSE. 



February 2, Prof. F. W. Clarke: Lightning and lightning-rods. 



February 9, Capt. C. E. Dutton, United States Army: The Hawaiian 

 Islands and people. 



February 18, Prof. John Murdoch : Eskimo life at Point Barrow. • 



February 23, Prol". Harvey W. Wiley : The sugar industry of the 

 North. 



THIRD COURSE. 



March 1, Prof. Harvey W. Willey : The sugar industry of the North. 



March 8, Prof. Simon Newcomb : Psychic force. 



March 16, Mr. John A. Eyder: Protoplasm in the light of recent in- 

 vestigations. 



March 22, Dr. Frank Baker: The new phrenology. 



March 29, Dr. D. Webster Prentiss : The bird-life of the District of 

 Columbia. 



FOURTH COURSE. 



April 5, Prof. T. C. Chamberlin: The great ice invasion of North 

 America. 



April 12, Dr. W. W. Godding : What shall we do with the inebriates 1 



April 19, Prof. J. S. Newberry : The industrial arts as factors in mod- 

 ern history. 



April 26, Maj. J. W. Powell: The canons of the Colorado. 



The lecture room was occupied on March 19 for the delivery of the 

 ninth lecture of the Toner series by Dr. Charles K. Mills, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



(/) Meetings of societies. 



The lecture hall of the National Museum has been used during the 

 year for sixty-eight meetings of different kinds, as is shown below. 



National Academy of Sciences, April 15-17 : Ten meetings were held. 

 On the evening of the 17th a public meeting was held, at which the 

 eulogies of deceased members were i)ronounced, 176 persons being in 

 attendance. 



American Surgical Association, April 30-May 3 : Eight meetings were 

 held. 



American Fish Cultural Association, May 13-15: Seven meetings 

 were hold. Invitations were extended by the Commissioner of Fisheries 

 to the fish commissioners of nineteen States, and a large attendance was 

 the result. Many papers were presented, but the chief point of attrac- 

 tion was the opening to the public of the fisheries section of the Museum, 

 as arranged after the return of a part of the collection from the Inter- 

 national Fisheries Exhibition in London. The Brush-Swan Company 



