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SCIENCE 



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Extension Society. The subjects are: (1) 

 "The Birth of the Moon," (2) "The Light 

 and Heat of the Sun," (3) " Astronomy at 

 the North Pole," (4) " Eclipses of the Sun," 

 (5) " Halley's Comet," (6) " Is Mars Inhab- 

 ited?" 



At the inauguration of the new rooms of 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, November 8, 

 Sir William Turner, president of the society, 

 delivered the address, which was followed by 

 a reception. 



The eighty-fourth Christmas course of ju- 

 venile lectures, founded at the Eoyal Institu- 

 tion in 1826 by Michael Faraday, will be de- 

 livered this year by Mr. W. Duddell, F.E.S. 

 His subject is " Modern Electricity," and the 

 first lecture will be given on December 28. 



There will be a U. S. Civil Service exam- 

 ination on December 15, to fill the position of 

 entomologist in the Bureau of Science at 

 Manila, with a salary of $1,600. 



By an arrangement with the Centrale Stelle, 

 Kiel, the Lowell Observatory has been made 

 the telegraphic distributing center for planet- 

 ary news in America. 



The American Anthropological Association 

 and the American Folk-Lore Society will meet 

 in affiliation with Section H of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at the meeting to be held in Boston, December 

 27, 1909, to January 1, 1910. Members of 

 these two societies and of Section H, who 

 contemplate presenting papers at this joint 

 meeting of anthropologists should send imme- 

 diately titles and abstracts of papers to Dr. 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn., who is responsible for the 

 combined program. 



Members of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science who are affiliated 

 with Section D, Mechanical Science and En- 

 gineering, are invited to contribute to the 

 program of the section for the Boston meeting. 

 Those intending to do so are requested to so 

 advise the secretary. Professor G. W. BisseU, 

 East Lansing, Mich. 



The twenty-seventh stated meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union will be held 



at the American Museum of Natural History 

 in New York City, beginning on the evening 

 of December 6. The evening session will be 

 for the election of officers and members, and 

 for the transaction of routine business. Tues- 

 day and the following days of the session will 

 be devoted to the presentation and discussion 

 of scientific papers and will be open to the 

 public. Information regarding the meeting 

 can be had by addressing the secretary, Mr. 

 John H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



The annual meeting of the American Na- 

 ture-Study Society will be held in Boston on 

 January 1, 1910. The topic for discussion is 

 the course in nature-study for elementary 

 schools. Both the biological and the inorganic 

 aspects of nature-study will be considered. 



The American Society of Animal Nutrition 

 will meet at Chicago on November 27, in con- 

 nection with the International Live-stock Ex- 

 position. Dr. H. P. Armsby, of the Pennsyl- 

 vania State College, will give the presidential 

 address. Professor H. E. Smith, of the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, will present a paper on 

 " The Value of Feeding Experiments to the 

 Farmer " and the reports of several committees 

 will be presented. 



The ninth meeting of the Central Associa- 

 tion of Science and Mathematics Teachers will 

 be held at the University of Chicago on No- 

 vember 26 and 27. The work of this associa- 

 tion is mainly concerned with the problems of 

 the secondary schools in teaching science and 

 mathematics. It developed the correlation of 

 secondary school mathematics and originated 

 the so-called " new movement " among physics 

 teachers, and is now engaged in considering the 

 fundamentals of the several sciences as pre- 

 sented in secondary schools. At the general 

 session on November 26, Professor Chamberlin, 

 of the University of Chicago, will give some 

 account of his recent studies in China in an 

 address entitled " Certain Features of China, 

 Physical and Humanistic." Principal James 

 E. Armstrong, of the Englewood High School, 

 Chicago, will give some conclusions based 

 upon four years' experience with segregated 

 classes in high school, in an address, " The 

 Advantages of Sex Segregation in High 



