48 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Mar. Apr. 
Monday, 18 22.—‘ Travels in South America.”” By Barnum Brown. 
Wednesday, 20  24.—‘‘ Natural Wonders of our Country.” By R. W. 
Miner. 
Apr. 
Friday, 5  26.—‘The Products of Our Mines.” By E. O. Hovey. 
This course of lectures is open to public school children accompanied 
by their teachers and to the children of Members of the Museum on the 
presentation of membership tickets. Particulars of the course may be 
learned by addressing the Director of the Museum. 
PEOPLE’S COURSE. 
Given in coéperation with the City Department of Education. 
Tuesdays at 8 P. M. 
A course of five lectures on the ‘‘ Far Eastern Question” by Mr. ELwoop 
G. Tewxssury, American Board of Missions, New York City. 
March 5.— ‘The White Peril.” 
March 12.— ‘‘The Siege of Peking.”’ 
March 19.— ‘‘The Yellow Peril.” 
March 26 — ‘‘'The New Far East.” 
April 2.— “‘Asiatic-American Reciprocity.” 
Saturdays at 8 P. M. 
A course of nine lectures on “Electricity and Electrical Energy” by 
Proressor JoHN S. McKay of Packer Collegiate Institution, Brooklyn. 
March 2.— ‘Relation of Electricity to Matter,— the Electron Theory.” 
March 9.— ‘Relation of Electricity to Energy. An Electric Charge and 
an Electric Current.” 
March 16.— “Electric Currents, or Electricity in Motion.” 
March 23.— “Thermal Relations of Electric Currents.” 
March 30.— ‘‘Chemical Relations of Electric Currents.” 
MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
The meetings of the New York Academy of Sciences and Affiliated 
Societies will be held at the Museum during March as usual. The pro- 
grammes are issued in the weekly “Bulletin” of the New York Academy 
of Sciences and sent to the members of the several societies. Members 
of the Museum on making request of the Director will be provided with 
these circulars as they are published. 
