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the State Seiiim Institute, Copenliagen, on 

 December 1, 4 and 5. The siJibjecJts of the lec- 

 tures are: "Specific and unspecifie antitoxin 

 production," "Antitoxic treatment," and "The 

 influence of temperature on antigren and anti- 

 bodies." 



Lord Balfour has arranged to deliver his 

 second course of Gifford lectures on natural 

 theology at Glasgow University. The first will 

 te given on Friday, November 24, the series 

 being continued on November 28 and December 

 1, 5, 8, 12, and 15 and 19, and January 16 and 

 19. The lectures, .which are open to the pub- 

 lic, were begun during the sessiion before the 

 war. 



At Lake Forest College there has recently 

 been reorganized a Science Club, which has 

 been dormant since ,the depariture of Dr. James 

 G. Needham in 1901. The departments of 

 chemistry, ibiology and psychology are sponsors 

 for the club and supervise the bi-weekly pro- 

 grams, the purpose of which is to stimulate in- 

 terest in /the general problemis of the three 

 fields. All persons in the vicinity interested 

 in science are invited to attend. The follow- 

 ing are the topics and leaders for the first 

 three meetings : "H3rpnotism," by Dr. "W. K. 

 Wells ; "The tropism ;theory as a basis for the 

 interpretation of human behavior," by Dr. W. 

 H. Cole, and "The constitution of matter," by 

 Dr. F. B. Coffin. 



The three concluding addresses in the series 

 of illustrated evening lectures given this 

 autumn by the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, are as follows : November 28, "The con- 

 stitution of the hereditary material and its 

 relation to development," Dr. T. H. Morgan, 

 research associate in biology of the Carni, and 

 professor of experimental zoology at Columbia 

 University, December 5, "The properties of 

 matter as illustrated in the '^tars," Dr. Henry 

 Norris Russell, research associate of the Mount 

 Wilson Observatory and director of the Prince- 

 ton University Observatory; December 12, 

 "The motions of the stars," Dr. Walter S. 

 Adams, acting director of the Mount Wilson 

 Observatory. 



An Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus and 

 Products will be an important feature of the 

 approaching Boston meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 to be held in the building of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Deeem- 

 iber 26 to 30, 1922. Those desiring to take part 

 by exhibiting apparatus, materials, etc., should 

 communicate at once with Professor E. P. 

 Bigeiow, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor 

 Bigeiow is chairman of the sutooommittee on 

 exhibits for the Fourth Boston Meeting. 



Application has been made for reduced rail- 

 road fares, on the certificate plan, for persons 

 attending the annual meetings of the Geological 

 Society of America, the Paleontological So- 

 ciety, the Mineralogical Society of America, 

 the Society of Economic Geologists, the Asso- 

 ciation of American Greographers and the 

 American Association of State Geologists, in 

 Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 26-31, 1922. 

 When purchasing tickets at the regular one- 

 way fare, certificates of the standard form 

 should 'be obtained from the railroad ticket 

 agent. The granting of return tickets at one 

 half the regular fare is conditional upon there 

 being 250 persons in attendance upon the 

 meetings who hold cei'tificates showing that 

 they have paid 67 cents or more on the go- 

 ing trip. 



For the purpose of commemorating the serv- 

 ices of William Thompson Sedgwick to the 

 cause of biology and public health, there has 

 'been established a memorial lectureship in the 

 department of the Institu'te of Technology 

 which he created. The desire of the founders 

 is that the Sedgwick Memorial Lectures shall 

 be given from year to year by men of dis- 

 tinguished eminence in any one of the sub- 

 jects comprehended within the general scope 

 of biology and public health in order that it 

 may fittingly expi^ess the deep and broad sym- 

 paithy of the man whom the lectureship is de- 

 signed to honor. The committee in charge of 

 the ledtureship consists of Samuel C. Prescott, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Teehnologj' ; Edwin 



