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SCIENCE 



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culture. The two former are four-year 

 courses, leading to a baccalaureate degree. 

 The last is a two-year course, the entrance 

 requirements for which are the same as 

 those of the regular long course, certificates 

 being awarded at the close, instead of de- 

 grees. There has also been organized, 

 within the college of letters and science, a 

 new course for the training of teachers. 

 Within the past year a new central heating 

 plant has been built, as well as an addi- 

 tion to the administration building. A 

 woman's building and a new animal hus- 

 bandry building are in process of construc- 

 tion. 



The increase in Tale University's grand 

 total is one of 31, while that for the fall 

 only amounts to 149, the discrepancy being 

 due to the withdrawal of the summer school 

 of this institution; the 48 students men- 

 tioned under summer session attended the 

 summer school of forestry. Gains in the 

 fall attendance have been registered by 

 every department with the exception of 

 the academic, which shows a loss of 41 

 students, whereas the Sheffield scientific 

 school has gained six. To the enrollment 

 of the latter should be added 154 graduate 

 students who are members of the graduate 

 school or the school of forestry. The laAV 

 school reports a gain of 92, the graduate 

 school one of 51, divinity 26, art 10, 

 forestry 9, music 8, and medicine 5. 



Rudolf Tombo, Jb. 

 Columbia Univeesity 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



The arrangements for lectures for the cur- 

 rent season are as follows : 



December 11 — " The Redemption of Ireland," by 

 Mr. William E. Curtis. No longer does the Irish- 

 man in Ireland live on potatoes and peat. Illus- 

 trated. 



December 18 — " Present Conditions in Turkey," 

 by Dr. Howard S. Bliss, president of the Syrian 

 Protestant College, Beirut. 



January 4 — " Tlie Sierra Nevada," by Dr. Grove 

 Karl Gilbert. 



January S — "A Digger's Work in Palestine," 

 by Dr. Frederick J. Bliss, author of " A Mound of 

 Many Cities," " Excavations in Palestine," etc. 



January 15 — " The Non-Christian Tribes of the 

 Philippine Islands," by Dr. Frederick Starr, of 

 the University of Chicago. 



January 22 — " The Panama Canal and the Span- 

 ish Main," by Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams. 



January 29 — ■" Abraham Lincoln — Boy and 

 Man," by Mr. W. W. Ellsworth, of the Century 

 Company. 



February 5 — Major General A. W. Greely, U. S. 

 Army, will address the society. 



February 12 — "The Bird Islands of Our At- 

 lantic Coast," by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. Illus- 

 trated with lantern slides and moving pictures 

 of the pelicans and fish hawlcs. 



February 19 — " Java — The Garden of the East," 

 by Mr. Henry G. Bryant. 



February 26 — ^" Aerial Locomotion," by Mr. 

 Wilbur Wright or Mr. Orville Wright. 



March 12 — "The Hunting Fields of Central 

 Africa," by Mr. Gardiner F. Williams, for twenty 

 years general manager of tlie De Beers diamond 

 mines at Kimberley. 



March 19 — " Ruwenzori, the Snow-crowned 

 Mountain of the Equator," by Professor Edwin 

 A. Fay, of Tufts College, president of the Amer- 

 ican Alpine Club. 



March 25 — " Brittany — The Land of the Sar- 

 dine," by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, deputy commis- 

 sioner of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



April 2 — •" Homes for Millions — Reclaiming the 

 Desert," by Mr. 0. J. Blanchard, of the U. S. 

 Reclamation Service. 



A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON SCIENCE TEACHING 

 At a meeting of the executive committee of 

 the American Federation of Teachers of the 

 Mathematical and Natural Sciences held 

 April 28, 1908, it was voted to appoint a com- 

 mittee on bibliography of which Professor 

 Eichard E. Dodge, of Teachers College, New 

 York, is chairman. 



This committee was requested to prepare, at 

 an early date, a selected and annotated bibliog- 

 raphy on science teaching for publication by 

 the federation. The field to be covered in- 

 cludes teaching in elementary, secondary and 

 normal schools and colleges. The list is to 



