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visitors the best and cheapest ways of lighting 

 their buildings. Under the general direction 

 of Dr. E. J. Berg, head of the department of 

 electrical engineering, a business organization 

 composed of graduate and undergraduate stu- 

 dents is carrying on the entire work incident 

 to the show. 



The Wagner Free Institute of Science of 

 Philadelphia announces a course of four free 

 public lectures under its Westbrook Pree Lec- 

 tureship Foundation on Conservation of Nat- 

 ural Resources, as follows : 



January 18 — Gifford Pinehot, president, Na- 

 tional Conservation Association, ' ' A Glance over 

 the Field." 



January 25 — Marshall O. Leighton, chief hy- 

 drograpber, U. 8. Geological Survey, ' ' Water as 

 a Resource." 



February I — Overton W. Price, vice-president. 

 National Conservation Association, "What shall 

 we do with our Forests ? ' ' 



February 8 — Joseph A. Holmes, director. Bureau 

 of Mines, Department of the Interior, ' ' Saving 

 Life and Besources in the Mining Industry." 



The Ecole D'Anthropologie de Paris an- 

 nounces the following courses for the year 

 1912-13 : 



Anatomic anthropology: Anatomic characters of 

 fossil man. Professor R. Anthony. 



Prehistoric anthropology: Art and industry of 

 the Magdalenians and the neolithic populations. 

 Professor L. Capitan. 



Zoologic anthropology: Appearance of man in 

 Europe. Hypotheses as to anthropologic centers. 

 Professor P. G. Mahoudeau. 



Ethnology: Study of Mendelian heredity — facts, 

 laws, anthropologic applications. Professor G. 

 Herve. 



Physiologic anthropology: Intelligence in the 

 human species, according to race, sex, age, social 

 categories and the individual. Professor L. Man- 

 ouvrier. 



Comparative ethnography: Origin and evolution 

 of clothing and ornament. Professor A. de Mor- 

 tillet. 



Sociology: The social maladies. Professor G. 

 PapiUault. 



Anthropologic geography: Geographic relations 

 in prehistoric and historic times. Professor F. 

 Sohrader. 



Ethnography: The French colonies, Morocco, 

 Central Africa. Professor S. Zaborowski. 



Linguistics: History of linguistics, the higher 

 languages. Assistant Professor J. Vinson. 



Series of special lectures by MM. Dubreuil- 

 Chambardel, Franchet, Kollmann and Paul-Bon- 

 cour. 



The Eugenics Education Society, as we 

 learn from Nature, has arranged for three 

 courses of lectures upon the groundwork of 

 eugenics, to be given at the Imperial College 

 of Science, South Kensington, from January 

 to December, 1913. In the spring term (Jan- 

 uary to March) there will be a course of 

 twelve lectures on elementary biology, with 

 special reference to the reproductive system, 

 by Mr. Clifford Dobell; in the summer term 

 (April to July), a course of twelve lectures on 

 heredity, including evolution, genetics, and 

 heredity in man, by Professor R. C. Punnett, 

 P.R.S. ; and in the autumn term (October to 

 December), a course of twelve lectures on 

 statistical methods applied to some problems 

 in eugenics, by Mr. G. TJdny Yule. In con- 

 nection with the Francis Galton Laboratory 

 for National Eugenics, a course of six lectures 

 will be delivered at University College, Lon- 

 don, by Professor Karl Pearson, F.R.S. (Gal- 

 ton professor of eugenics). Miss Ethel M. 

 Elderton, Dr. David Heron and Mr. W. Palin 

 Elderton. These lectures wiU be given on 

 Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m., beginning Feb- 

 ruary 11, 1913, and will deal with the following 

 subjects : heredity, environment and parental 

 habits in their relation to infant welfare; 

 heredity of piebaldism and of albinism in 

 man ; the relation of fertility in man to social 

 value in the parent; some points with regard 

 to our present knowledge of heredity in cases 

 of f eeble-mindedness ; the mortality of the 

 phthisical under sanatorium and tuberculin 

 treatments; and recent studies of heredity in 

 dogs, and their bearing on heredity in man. 



The Berlin correspondent of the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association writes that 

 the regular general meeting of the " Leipziger 

 Verband zur Wahrung der wirtschaftlichen 

 Interessen der deutschen Aerzte," was held at 



