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lectures, two to the general public and three 

 seminar lectures to advanced students in the 

 biological departments. Professor Cbnklin 

 will also lecture at Houston, Galveston and 

 San Antonio. 



On the ervening of Feibruary 22, Professor 

 P. E. Watson, of the IJniversity of Illinois, 

 delivered an illustrated lecture on " Acoustics 

 of auditoriums " before ithe Illinois Society of 

 Architects at the Chicago Art Museum. 



Frederick G. Clapp, of New York City, an 

 authority ,on petroleum geology, is giving a 

 aeries of twelve lectures on that subject at 

 Harvard University, beginning on Tuesday, 

 March 8. 



Dr. Harlow Shapley, of the Mount "Wilson 

 Observatory, gave a series of illustrated lec- 

 tures in San Francisco and Berkeley, Feb- 

 ruary 25 and 27, on the following subjects: 

 " New stars and variable stars," Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific, Native Sons' Hall, San 

 Francisco ; " On the Structure of the galactic 

 system," astronomical department of the Uni- 

 versity of California ; " The dimensions of the 

 sidereal universe," California Academy of 

 Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 



The joint spring meeting of the Association 

 of American Geographers and the American 

 Geographical Society will be held in New 

 York City on April 22 and 23. The complete 

 program for the meeting wiU be published in 

 the near future. 



The third annual meeting of the American 

 Society of Mammalogists will be held in 

 "Washington, D. C, from May 2 to 4. Sessions 

 devoted to the reading of papers, discussion 

 and business, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4.30 

 p.m., each day, in the New National Museum. 

 A session may also be arranged for the even- 

 ing of May 2. Opportunities will be offered 

 to visit various places of zoological interest in 

 the city, and the usual social functions wiU 

 be arranged. 



The annual meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Pathologists and Bacteriologists will 

 be held at Cleveland, Ohio, on March 25 and 

 26. Dr. Howard T. Karsner is the president. 



The next annual meeting of the American 

 Astronomical Society will be held at the Van 

 "VIeck Observatory, "Wesleyan University, 

 Middletown, Connecticut, from August 30 to 

 September 2, 1921. 



The second annual meeting of the Soiith- 

 western Geological Society will be held on ' 

 March 18, at Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first 

 bulletin of the society will be ready for dis- 

 tribution about that time. The society has a 

 membership of one hundred and seventy-nine. 

 Sections have been organized at Austin, 

 Texas; Houston, Texas; Ardmore, Oklahoma; 

 Okmulgee, Oklahoma; Duncan, Oklahoma; 

 Dallas, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana. 

 Visiting geologists in any of these localities 

 are invited to attend the section meetings. 



The Indian Botanical Society has recently 

 been organized with a charter membership of 

 eighty-five. The officers, who serve until the 

 meeting of January, 1922, are as follows: 

 President, Winfield Dudgeon; Vice-president, 

 "W. Bums; Secretary-treasurer, Shiv Ham 

 Kashyap; Councilors, Birbal Sahni and Eai 

 Bahadur K. Rangachari. The society had its 

 inception in a resolution passed by the Botan- 

 ical Section of the Indian Science Congress 

 at the Nagpur meeting in January, 1920. 

 , The Eye-Sight Conservation Council of 

 America with headquarters in New York City, 

 was recently organized, and Mr. L. W. "Wal- 

 lace, New York, was elected president, and Dr. 

 Cassius D. "Wescott, Chicago, vice-president. 

 Drs. Frederick R. Green, Chicago; "W. S. 

 Rankin, Raleigh, N. C. ; Arthur L. Day, "Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and Allan J. McLaughlin, U. S. 

 P. H. S., Washington, D. C, are members of 

 the board of councilors. The council has for 

 its object the conservation and improvement 

 of vision by arousing public interest in eye 

 hygiene, especially as it pertains to defective 

 vision and the protection ai the eyes in hazar- 

 dous occupations. 



The trustees of the American Medical As- 

 sociation have made an appropriation to fur- 

 ther meritorious research in subjects relating 

 to scientific medicine and of practical interest 

 to the medical profession, which might not be 



