LECTURES 73 



MEMOIRS, Volume X. 



Part II. — Material Culture and Social Organization of the Koryak. By 



W. JocHELSON. (Plates xiv-xl, ami 194 text figures.) . 383-811 



MEMOIRS, Volume XIV. 

 Part II.— Haida Texts. By John R. Swanton 271-802 



LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



MEMBER'S COURSE. 



Thursday evenings at 8:15 o'clock. Doors open at 7: 45 p. m. 



The second course of illustrated lectures for the season 1908-1909 to 

 Members of the Museum and persons holding complimentary tickets given 

 them by ^Members will be given in ^Nlarch and April according to the follow- 

 ing programme: 



]\Iarch 4. — "Birds in Their Relation to Man." By Mr. Frank M. Chap- 

 man, Curator of Ornithology in the American ^Museum of 

 Natural History. 



What tlie Bird does for the State. The bird aiul the forester; the liird and the 

 fruit-grower; the bird antl the farmer; the bird and the citizen; the bird and the 

 nature-lover. 



What the State does for the Bird. Bird destruction for pleasure and for profit; 

 influence of increasing population on bird-life. 



What the State should do for the Bird. Bird conservation by law and by creat- 

 ing favorable environmental conditions. 



March 11. — "The Conservation of Our Rivers and Lakes." By Mr. 

 Charles H. Townsend, Director of the New York Aqua- 

 rium. 



Mr. Townsend will speak on the importance of our fresh waters for fisheries, 

 town water supply, water power, irrigation, navigation and recreation; the dangers 

 which threaten them on account of pollution and deforestation; the remedies which 

 may be applied through sewage disposal, fish culture, impounding of waters, protec- 

 tion of the watersheds and the development of navigable waterways. 



March 18. — "The Con.servation of Natural Scenery in America." By 

 Mr. J. Horace ]McFarland, President of the American 

 Civic Association for a Better and More Beautiful America. 



The address will deal with the value of natural scenery in its effect on the human 

 mind, and with the danger of inconsiderately destroying natural beauty in that 



