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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 940 



November 20 — ' ' Comets I have Knowii, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor F. P. Leavenworth. 



November 27 — "Thunder and Lightning," Pro- 

 fessor John Zeleny. 



December 4 — ' ' Eadium, its use in Physics and 

 Medicine," Assistant Professor Alois F. Kovarik. 



December 11 — "Electrical Transmission of In- 

 telligence," Professor G. D. Shepardson. 



December 18 — "Some Advances in Modern 

 Bridge Engineering," Professor Frank H. Con- 

 stant. 



January ]5 — "The Air We Breathe," Dean 

 George B. Frankforter. 



January 22 — ' ' A Geological Exploration in 

 Southwest Colorado," Professor W. H. Emmons. 



January 29 — ' ' American Metal Mining, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor Chas. E. van Barneveld. 



February 5 — ' ' Geographical Studies in Glacier 

 National Park," Assistant Professor E. M. Lehn- 

 erts. 



February 19 — "The Influence of the Study of 

 Fossils — Paleontology, ' ' Assistant Professor F. W. 

 Sardeson. 



February 26 — ' ' Heredity and Eugenics, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor H. F. Nachtrieb. 



March 5 — ' ' Plants and the Cost of Living, ' ' 

 Professor F. E. Clements. 



March 12 — "Sickness in Plants — Causes and 

 -Eemedies, " Professor E. M.. Freeman. 



March 19 — "Modern Warfare against Grass- 

 '■Sioppers; and Protective Coloration and Mimicry 

 »of Insects," Professor F. L. Washburn. 



April 2 — "Some Recent Developments in tlie 

 iStudy of the Nervous System," Professor J. B. 

 ■Johnston. 



April 9 — "The Special Child," Professor J. B. 

 Miner. 



April 16 — "Eecent Progress in the Study and 

 Cure of Cancer," Dr. H. E. Robertson. 



April 23 — "Modern Surgery," Dr. A. T. Mann. 



April 30 — "The Two Most Important Epochs in 

 ithe History of Modern Medicine: the Discovery 

 'of Vaccination and the Discovery of the Relation 

 of Microorganisms to Disease and the Application 

 of the Antiseptic Principle to the Practise of 

 Surgery," Dr. Burnside Foster. 



May 7 — "Living with Head Hunters," Pro- 

 fessor Albert E. Jenks. 



We learn from the Geographical Journal 

 that the attention directed of late years to the 

 antiquarian remains at Tiahuanacu has led 

 ■the Bolivian Minister of Public Instruction, 



at the instance of Senor Ballivian, to provide 

 funds for the systematic excavation of the site 

 of the ruins, with a view to saving them fro3i 

 further depredations of a kind to which they 

 have been subject in the past. The work has 

 been carried out under the supervision of the 

 director of the National Museum, Dr. Otto 

 Buchtien, and a report on the results so far 

 gained has been circulated by Senor Ballivian. 

 At a depth of from 3 to 10 feet below the sur- 

 face a large quantity of pottery was found, of 

 pre-Inca age, many of the objects being in a 

 perfect state of preservation. They at once 

 rivet the attention by the fineness of the ma- 

 terial, and in the case of the cups, bowls, etc., 

 by their artistic form as well as by the excel- 

 lence and freshness of the coloring. The di- 

 versity of the ideographs and pictographs rep- 

 resented on them will demand special study 

 by experts. Among the smaller objects, a hu- 

 man figure in silver is interesting as showing 

 the nature of the garments worn in that an- 

 cient time. Worked stones have also been 

 found, and skulls showing distinct traces 

 of deformation. One of the latest discov- 

 eries had been a skull, belonging apparently 

 to an ancient race, and showing the frontal 

 suture and larger in all its dimensions than 

 skulls of the present day. Further reports are 

 promised as the work progresses. 



VNirEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The Hamburg senate has adopted the pro- 

 posal to found a university there consisting of 

 three faculties — law, philosophy and colonial 

 science. These are to be supported by the in- 

 terest on $6,250,000, which has been appropri- 

 ated for the purpose by the city. 



The program for the exercises at the dedi- 

 cation of Lincoln Hall, University of Illinois, 

 to be held on February 12, includes addresses 

 by Mr. Hugh Black, Governor Deneen and 

 Bishop McDowell of Chicago. Lincoln Hall 

 was made possible by an appropriation of 

 $250,000 by the legislature in 1909, the one 

 hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth and 

 it was decided to give the building its present 

 name and dedicate it to the study of humani- 

 ties. 



