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Mr. Frank M. Cuapman, Curator of Ornithology, addressed the 
National Conservation Congress at St. Paul, September 7, on “ Practical 
Bird Conservation.” Before demonstrating with the aid of lantern. slides 
and motion pictures practical methods and results in the conservation of 
birds, Mr. Chapman explained why protection is essential and called 
attention to the relation between birds, insects and forests, giving statistics 
in regard to the depredations of insects injurious to trees and also data 
showing to what extent birds feed upon these insects. 
LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MEMBERS’ COURSE 
The first course of lectures for the season 1910-1911 to Members of the 
Museum and persons holding complimentary tickets given them by Mem- 
bers will open in November. 
PUPILS’ COURSE. 
The lectures to Public School children will be resumed in October. 
PEOPLE’S COURSE. 
Given in coéperation with the City Department of Education. 
Tuesday evenings at 8:15 o’clock. Doors open at 7:30. The first 
four of a course of seven lectures by Mr. ArtHuR STANLEY Riaas on “ His- 
toric Italy from Sea to Sea.”’ Illustrated by stereopticon views. 
October 4.— “Down the Riviera: The French and Italian Shores of the 
North.” 
October 11.— “Florence: The City of Art Transcendent.” 
October 18.— “ Pisa — Genoa — Venice: ‘They Who Go Down to the 
Sea in Ships.’”’ 
October 25.— “ Rome: The Quick and the Dead — A New View.”’ 

Saturday evenings at 8:15 o’clock. Doors open at 7:30. The first four 
of a course of six lectures on “Evolution”? by PrRorrssor SAMUEL C. 
SCHMUCKER. Lectures of October 15, 22 and 29 illustrated with stere- 
opticon. 
October 8.— “Charles Darwin,— a Master Mind.” 
October 15.— “ Natural Selection,— a Master Idea.”’ 
October 22.— “ Fossil Evidences for Evolution.” 
October 29.— “ What a Chicken Can Teach Us.” 
Children are not admitted to these lectures, except on presentation of a 
Museum Member’s Card. 
