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interval can not be correlated definitely with 

 the period of 13,500 years which, according to 

 de Geer, is the approximate number of years 

 ago at which the last ice-sheet started to retreat 

 across southern Sweden; (3) that an isostatie 

 bulge made a freshwater lake of Long Island 

 Sound during the last glacial period; and (4) 

 that the axis of post-glacial tilting lies in the 

 vicinity of Hartford, the dam holding back the 

 lake in Long Island Sound between Fisher's 

 Island and Long Island having been sub- 

 merged approximately 200 feet in post-glacial 

 time, or tilted southward from New Haven 

 approximately eight feet to the mile. 



Sixteen New England colleges and institu- 

 tions, as well as the United States Geological 

 Survey, were represented on the excursion. 

 The list of institutions is Amlieret (1), Brown 

 (2), Clark (2), Colby (1), Dartmouth (1), 

 Hartford High (2), Harvard (2), Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural (1), Mount Holyoke (3), 

 Smith (6), Springfield Schools (1), Trinity 

 (1), University of Stockholm (1), University 

 of Vermont (1), United States Geological Sur- 

 vey (1), Wesleyan (2), Williams (5), Yale 

 (7), unattached (1). The total attendance 

 was, therefore, 41. 



LECTURES OF THE LOWELL INSTITUTE 

 Among seven courses of Lowell lectures to 

 be given during the present season ai'e the 

 following : 



A course of eight lectures by Harlow Shap- 

 ley, Ph.D., Paine professor of astronomy at 

 Harvard Unversity and director of the Harvard 

 College Observatory, on "The Content and 

 Structure of the Sidereal Universe." 1. The 

 Problems of Modern Astronomy. 2. Space, 

 Time and Starlight. 3. Stars and Atoms. 4. 

 Stellar Variation and Evolution. 5. Measuring 

 the Milky Way. 6. NebulEe and Island Uni- 

 verses. 7. Origin of the Earth. 8. Life and 

 the Physical Univei"se. Tuesdays and Fridays 

 at 8 o'clock in the evening, beginnng Tuesdaj^, 

 October 24. 



A course of eight lectures by Edwin Grant 

 Coiiklin, Ph.D., Se.D., professor of biology in 

 Princeton University, on "The Revolt against 

 Darwinism." 1. Evolution, Historical and Ex- 



])erimental. 2. The Materials of Evolution. 



3. The Role of Selection in Species Formation. 



4. The Cellular Basis of Heredity. 5. The Cel- 

 lular Basis of Development and Evolution. 

 6. Directions and' Rates of Evolution. 7. The 

 Mechanism of Adaptation. 8. Mechanism and 

 Teleology. Wednesdays and Mondays at 8 

 o'clock in the evening, beginning on Wednes- 

 Any, November 22, and omitting Wednesday, 

 November 29. 



A course of six lectures by A. Hamilton 

 Rice, A.M., M.D., on "Journeys and Explora- 

 tions in Tropical South America." 1. Physical 

 Outlines of South America. Desiderata in Ex- 

 ploration. Some Notes on South American 

 Hydrography. 2. Historical. Quito to the 

 Amazons by the River Napo, the Route of 

 Pizarro and Orellana. Caracas to Bogota by 

 the Route of Bolivar and the Foreign Legion 

 across the Venezuelan Lianos and the Colom- 

 bian Andes. 3. Bogota and Exploration of 

 the River Calaro-Uaupes, the Great West Afflu- 

 ent of the Rio Negro. 4. Further Explorations 

 of the N. W. Amazons Valley, including the 

 Sources of the Caqueta and the Rivers Inirida 

 and Icana. 5. The Great Rio Negro (Ama- 

 zons). 6. The Casiquiare Canal and the Upper 

 Orinoco. Fridays and Tuesdays at five o'clock 

 in the afternoon, beginning on Friday, Decem- 

 ber 1. 



A course of six lectures by W. J. V. Oster- 

 hout, Ph.D., professor of botany, Harvard 

 University, on "The Nature of Life and 

 Death." 1. Growth. 2. Reproduction and Mo- 

 tion. 3. Irritability. 4. Constructive Metabol- 

 ism. 5. Destructive Metabolism. 6. Perme- 

 ability. Thursdays and Mondays at 8 o'clock 

 in the evening, beginning on Thureday, Janu- 

 ary 4. 



INSTALLATION OF THE CHANCELLOR OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO 



Dr. Samuel Paul Capen, director of the 

 American Council on Education since its or- 

 ganization in 1919, resigns this month to become 

 chancellor of the University of Buffalo. This 

 institution more than a year ago conducted an 

 endowment fund campaign in which 26,000 

 citizens contributed more than $5,000,000. Dr. 



