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tween one science and another, and especially the relations of 

 logical interdependence between problems of one science and 

 the investigations of another; and should deal with the 

 methods of inference and verification employed in each 

 science even more than with detailed results. Secondly, the 

 course should serve in some measure to keep the University 

 community at large informed upon recent progress and pres- 

 ent points of controversy in the several sciences. It is be- 

 lieved that in most cases it will be found practicable, though 

 it will undoubtedly be difficult, for lecturers to unite both these 

 purposes in planning their lectures. 



While the lectures are to be non-technical, they are not 

 aimed primarily at the understanding of the freshman. The 

 committee hopes that each lecture may be, at once, intelligible 

 to the average undergraduate of the two upper classes and 

 sufficiently fresh and substantial to reward the attendance of 

 members of the Faculty." 



How far the lecturers fulfilled the intention of the com- 

 mittee and how far they were successful in the performance 

 of their task, it must be left to the reader to decide. 



Other series of similarly planned lectures, but dealing 

 with the social sciences, philosophy, languages and literature, are 

 in course of preparation and will be delivered in the future. 



THE EDITOR. 



