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SCIENCE 



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Sunday afternoon in the museum auditoriimi. 

 Among the lecturers have been many of the 

 most distinguished men of science on the 

 Pacific coast and a number from the east. 

 The courses for the present year are proving 

 of unusual interest. Those given in the first 

 part of the year have already been mentioned 

 in Science. Those for the first months of 

 1921 have been announced by Director Ever- 

 mann as follows : 



Three lectures by Professor Lewis, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, as follows: 



January 2. ' ' Atoms and ions. ' ' Illustrated. 



January 9. "Electrons and positive rayS. " 

 Illustrated. 



January 16. "Radioactive transformations." 

 Illustrated. 



Three toy Professor D. L. Webster, of Stanford 

 University, will be as follows: 



January 23. "General properties of X- and 

 Gamma-Eays. ' ' Illustrated. 



February 6. "X-Eay spectra." Illustrated. 



Feibruary 13. ' ' The structure of atoms. ' ' Il- 

 lustrated. 



On J'anuary 30 Dr. E. C. Slipher, Lowell Observ- 

 atory, Flagstaff, Arizona, lectured on: "Pho- 

 tography of the planets, with special reference to 

 Mars. ' ' Illustrated. 



Upon the completion of this course on 

 physical subjects other lectures will be given 

 as follows: 



February 20. Mr. Ediward Berwick, Pacific 

 Grove, Calif., subject: "How Uncle Sam's money 

 is wasted." 



February 27. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Mount Wil- 

 son Solar Observatory, Pasadena, subject: "The 

 dimensions of the stellar universe." Illustrated. 



March 6. Major W. B. Herms, associate pro- 

 fessor of parasitology. University of California, 

 subject: "Eighteen thousand miles in search of 

 mosquitoes in California — ^ho w and why ? ' ' Illus- 

 trated. 



March 13. Mr. Harry S. Smith, entomologist. 

 State Department of Agriculture, Sacramento, sub- 

 ject: "Parasitism among insects." 



March 20. Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, assistant pro- 

 fessor of entomology. University of California, 

 subject: "Some injurious forest insects of Cali- 

 fornia. ' ' 



March 27. Mr. Frederick Maskew, formerly 

 chief deputy quarantine officer. State Department 



of Agriculture, subject: "Insect quarantine work 

 of the State Department of Agriculture. ' ' 



April 3. Dr. E. S. Holway, associate professor 

 of physical geography. University of California, 

 subject: "The evolution of California scenery." 

 Illustrated. 



April 10. Dr. B. L. Clark, assistant professor of 

 paleontology. University of California, subject: 

 "Ancient seas and their faunas." Illustrated. 



April 17. Dr. G. D. Louderback, professor of 

 geology. University of California, subject: "Chief 

 events of earth history in the California region." 

 Illustrated. 



April 24. Dr. Chester Stock, research assistant, 

 department of paleontology. University of Cali- 

 fornia, subject : ' ' The former mammalian life of 

 California. ' ' Illustrated. 



Upon the completion of the above there will 

 be five lectures in May on the general sub- 

 ject of meteorology. This course is being 

 arranged by Mr. E. A. Beals in charge of the 

 United States Weather Bureau Office, San 

 Francisco. The subjects and speakers will be 

 announced later. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 . Dr. Theodore Lyman, professor of physics 

 and director of the Jefferson Physical Labora- 

 tory, Harvard University, has been elected 

 president of the American Physical Society. 

 . The Edison medal, awarded annually for 

 work in electrical engineering by the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Electrical Engineers, will be 

 presented this year to Dr. M. I. Pupin, pro- 

 fessor of electromechanics at Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Ira Remsen, president emeritus of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, professor of chem- 

 istry emeritus at the institution, has accepted 

 an offer from the St-andard Oil Company to 

 act as consulting chemist for the corporation. 



Dr. Pearce Bailey has been awarded a dis- 

 tinguished service medal in recognition of his 

 services as chief of the division of neuro-psy- 

 chiatry of the Surgeon-General's Office. 



King George has signified his intention of 

 conferring the honor of knighthood on Dr. 

 Maurice Craig, consulting neurologist to the 

 Ministry of Pensions, and Dr. P. Horton- 



