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session will be for the election of officers and 

 members, and for tlie transaction of other 

 routine business. The meetings, open to the 

 public and devoted to the presentation and 

 discussion of scientific papers, will be held at 

 the University Museum, Oxford Street, com- 

 mencing on Tuesday, November 17, and con- 

 tinuing for three days. Information regard- 

 ing the meeting can be had by addressing the 

 secretary, Mr. John H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



The Salters' Company, London, has voted 

 £100 a year for a period of three years to the 

 cancer research laboratories of the Middlesex 

 Hospital as a research scholarship. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Burland, of Montreal, 

 has given $50,000 to the Montreal League for 

 the Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis. 

 In the heart of Montreal, Colonel Burland has 

 presented a building for dispensary purposes 

 and the gift of $50,000 is on the condition 

 that the league raises an endowment of a 

 similar amount. 



A EoYAL Commission has been appointed in 

 Great Britain to make an inventory of the 

 ancient and historical morjuments and con- 

 structions connected with oi illustrative of 

 the contemporary culture, civilization and con- 

 ditions of life of the people in England from 

 the earliest times to the year 1700, and to 

 specify those which seem most worthy of 

 preservation. The commission is constituted 

 as follows : Lord Burghclere (chairman) ; Earl 

 of Plymouth, C.B.; Viscount Dillon; Lord 

 Balcarres, M.P.; Sir H. H. Howorth, KC.I.E., 

 F.E.S.; Sir John F. F. Homer, KC.V.O.; 

 Mr. E. J. Homiman, M.P.; Dr. P. J. Haver- 

 field, Camden professor of ancient history in 

 the University of Oxford ; Mr. L. Stokes, vice- 

 president of the Eoyal Institute of British 

 Architects; Mr. J. Fitzgerald, assistant secre- 

 tary to H.M. Office of "Works; and Mr. J. G. 

 N. Clift, hon. secretary to the British Archeo- 

 logical Association. 



Professor Seneca Egbert will give a series 

 of free public lectures at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, on " The Pre- 



vention of Disease and the Preservation of 

 Health," at 8 p.m. on the following dates : 



November 5 — " The Economic Loss due to Pre- 

 ventable Diseases — What they cost and how they 

 Affect the People, Individually and Collectively." 



November 12 — " What is being done to prevent 

 Disease — Results already Achieved — The Outlook 

 for the Future." 



November 19 — " Methods of Prophylaxis, and 

 their Efficiency — The Value of Sanitation, Quar- 

 antine, Vaccination, etc." 



November 27 — " The Importance of Personal 

 Health in Preventing Disease — Necessity of Fos- 

 tering and Increasing One's Vital Resistance — 

 The Influence of Extraneous Factors as Pure Air, 

 Pure Water, Pure Food, etc." 



December 3 — ■" The Importance and Need of 

 Popular Education in Public Health — Available 

 and Practical Means for Securing It — Missionary 

 Work Imperative for the Immediate Future." 



The following is a series of lectures which 

 has been arranged by the Museum of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, for the month 

 of November. They are to be given in the 

 Widener Lecture Hall, at three o'clock on the 

 afternoons mentioned. 



November 7 — C. Leonard Woolley, A.M.: "Re- 

 sults of the Second Eckley B. Coxe Egyptian 

 Expedition " and " Excavations in Nubia." 



November 11 — Sir Harry Johnston, 6.C.M.G., 

 K.C.B., D.Sc: "The Congo State — Its Fauna and 

 Its Peoples." 



November 18 — Professor Oscar Gustaf Mone- 

 tilius, Royal Antiquary of Sweden: "The My- 

 cenean Period." 



November 25 — C. Leonard Woolley, A.M. : " A 

 Roman Town in Britain " and " Roman Britain 

 in the Light of the Present Excavations at Cor- 

 bridge on Tyne." 



THE ADMINISTRATION OF TEE UNIVER- 

 SITY OF ILLINOIS 



At a meeting of the senate of the University 

 of Illinois on October 15, called at the re- 

 quest of the committee on educational policy, 

 the following resolutions were adopted: 



Whebeas, There is ground for apprehending 

 that recent articles in the press may lead the 

 public to think that academic freedom is sup- 

 pressed or interfered with at the University of 



