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scope of the conference: Organized efforts to 

 abolish war, venereal diseases and child labor; 

 to obtain pure foods, to prevent tuberculosis, 

 to promote temperance, to improve conditions 

 of labor, to safeguard men at sea and on rail- 

 roads, to improve country life conditions, to 

 better the living conditions of prisoners, 

 juvenile offenders and other defectives, to 

 prevent contagion, to curb occupational dis- 

 eases, to solve the housing problems of cities, 

 and the health problems of immigration, to 

 promote school hygiene, playgrounds and 

 recreation centers. 



The coroner of Cook County, with head- 

 quarters in Chicago, is about to establish a 

 chemical laboratory, primarily for toxieolog- 

 ical chemistry. The salary of the chemist in 

 charge will be $2,500 per annum, and there 

 will be one assistant. The work will be di- 

 rected by an advisory committee consist- 

 ing of Hon. Harry Olson, chief justice, Mu- 

 nicipal Courts of Chicago; Professor John 

 H. Long, professor of chemistry, Northwest- 

 ern University Medical School; John A. 

 Wesener, M.D., Columbus Memorial Labora- 

 tory; Ludvig Hektoen, M.D., director. Me- 

 morial Institute for Infectious Diseases; Pro- 

 fessor Walter S. Hames, professor of chemis- 

 try and toxicology in the University of Chi- 

 cago and Eush Medical College. Applica- 

 tions may be sent to Peter M. Hoffman, cor- 

 oner, Eoom 500, County Building, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



The Field Museum of Natural History an- 

 nounces its thirty-eighth Free Lecture Course 

 as follows : 



March 1 — ' ' A Look into South America, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor Bollin D. Salisbury, the University of 

 Chicago. 



March 8 — "Fossil Collecting," Mr. A. W. Slo- 

 com, assistant curator, Division of Invertebrate 

 Paleontology. 



March 15 — "Cultural and Somatic Evidences of 

 Man's Antiquity," Professor George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy, Yale University. 



March 22 — ' ' Spain : Country and People, ' ' Mr. 

 Arthur Stanley Kiggs, New York. 



March 29 — "Newfoundland," Professor M. L. 

 Fernald, Harvard University. 



April 5 — "Wild Flowers of the Chicago Re- 

 gion," Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, curator. Department 

 of Botany. 



April 12 — "Crossing the Andes of Northern 

 Peru," Mr. W. H. Osgood, assistant curator of 

 mammalogy and ornithology. 



April 19 — "Logging California Eedwoods, " 

 Mr. Huron H. Smith, assistant curator, Division of 

 Dendrology. 



April 26 — "Keligious and Artistic Thought in 

 China, ' ' Dr. Berthold Laufer, associate curator of 

 Asiatic ethnology. 



Lincoln Hall at the University of Illinois 

 was formally dedicated " to the study of the 

 humanities, in memory of Abraham Lincoln, 

 and in the name of the people of Illinois " on 

 Lincoln's birthday, February 12. Representa- 

 tives from many American educational insti- 

 tutions were present. Addresses on the im- 

 portance to the commonwealth of adequate 

 provisions for the study of the humanities 

 were made by Professor Bliss Perry, of Har- 

 vard University; Dean Frederick J. C. Wood- 

 bridge, professor of philosophy at Columbia 

 University, and by Dr. Albert Shaw, editor 

 of the Review of Reviews. Bishop Wm. F. 

 McDowell, of Chicago, conducted the cere- 

 mony of dedication, and addresses were made 

 by the governor of the state, the president of 

 the board of trustees, the state architect and 

 the president of the university. Dr. Hugo 

 Black, of Union Seminary, New York, spoke 

 on " How Lincoln Appeared to a Scotchman." 

 The sum of two hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars was appropriated at the session of the 

 Illinois legislature beginning in January, 

 1909, the hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's 

 birth, for a buUding to be dedicated to the 

 study of humanities. It was decided to make 

 this building a memorial to Abraham Lincoln, 

 the first citizen of Illinois to be elected presi- 

 dent of the United States, the signer of the 

 bill which made the state university possible 

 and the consistent and persevering friend of 

 higher education in state and nation. The 

 scheme of decoration includes a series of 



