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G. H. Perkins, H. Phipps, J. J. Pierrepont, G. A. 

 Piersol, G. Pinchot, J. F. Porter, F. H. Pratt, 

 H. S. Pratt, H. S. Pritchett, F. W. Putnam, E. 

 Rathbun, R. W. Raymond, J. Reighard, E. L. Rice, 

 W. N. Rice, W. E. Ritter, M. A. Ryerson, W. 

 Saunders, C. Sehuchert, C. P. Sigerfoos, L. Stej- 

 neger, G. M. Sternberg, F. L. Stevens, H. E. Sum- 

 mers, F. Smith, R. S. Tarr, E. W. Taylor, W. A. 

 Taylor, R. J. Terry, R. Thaxter, E. L. Thorndike, 

 S. E. Tillman, J. E. Todd, J. H. Todd, S. M. Tracy, 

 E. N. Transeau, A. L. Treadwell, A. H. Tuttle, 

 H. von Schrenk, F. C. Waite, C. Walcott, H. E. 

 Walter, R. H. Ward, H. B. Ward, H. L. Ward, 

 L. F. Ward, H. J. Webber, W. H. Welch, W. M. 

 Wheeler, I. 0. White, 0. 0. Whitman, H. S. 

 Williams, W. S. Williamson, H. V. Winchell, 0. 

 E. A. Winslow, C. E. Woodruff, A. F. Woods, 

 R. M. Yerkes, 0. Zeleny. 



All subseriptions exceeding one dollar in 

 amount have been individually acknowledged. 

 Charles B. Davenport, 



Secretary 



TEE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DARWIN 

 LECTURES 



A SERIES of lectures on " Charles Darwin and 

 His Influence on Science," will be given at 

 Columbia University on Friday afternoons, 

 from February 12 to April 16, 1909, in 309 

 Havemeyer Hall, at 4:10 p.m., with the ex- 

 ception of the introductory lecture, which will 

 be given at 11:10 a.m., on February 12, the 

 one hundredth anniversary of Darwin's birth. 

 The lectures', which are open to the public, are 

 as follows : 



■February 12 — " Darwin's Life and Work," by 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn, Se.D., LL.D. 



February 19 — " Terrestrial Evolution and Pale- 

 ontology," by William Berryman Scott, Ph.D. 



February 26 — " Darwin's Influence on Zoology," 

 by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Ph.D. 



March 5 — " Darwin in Relation to Anthropol- 

 ogy/' t>y Eranz Boas, Ph.D. 



March 12 — " Darwin's Contribution to Psychol- 

 ogy)" by Edward Lee Thorndike, Ph.D. 



March 19 — " Darwin's Influence on Botany," by 

 Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Ph.D. 



March 26 — " Darwinism and Modern Philos- 

 ophy," by John Dewey, Ph.D., LL.D. 



April 2 (date subject to change) — "Cosmic 

 Evolution," by George Ellery Hale, Sc.D. 



April 16—" Darwinism in Relation to the Evo- 

 lution of Human Institutions," by Franklin Henry 

 Giddings, Ph.D., LL.D. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Henry F. Osborn has been elected 

 president of the New York Zoological So- 

 ciety. 



Dean Frank Olin Marvin, of the School of 

 Engineering of the University of Kansas, waa 

 elected president of the Sigma Si scientific 

 society at the recent Baltimore meeting. 



Dr. S. a. Forbes has tendered his resigna- 

 tion as professor of zoology in the University 

 of Illinois, which position he has held since 

 1884. The resignation is to take effect on 

 September 1, 1909. He will remain as di- 

 rector of the State Laboratory of Natural His- 

 tory and state entomologist. 



Dr. Charles Eockwell Lanman, professor 

 of Sanscrit in Harvard University, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Insti- 

 tute of France in the Academic des Inscrip- 

 tions et Belles-Lettres. 



Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor of anat- 

 omy at Berlin, has been elected a foreigm 

 member of the Stockholm Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



The University of Berne has conferred the 

 honorary degree of Ph.D. upon the Eev. W. 

 A. B. Coolidge, M.A., fellow of Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, in recognition of his works 

 on Swiss history and geography. 



M. Freundler has been elected general sec- 

 retary of the Paris Chemical Society in suc- 

 cession to M. Behal. 



Mr. Stanley Field, nephew of Marshall 

 Field, who founded the Field Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, Chicago, and in his will left a 

 bequest of $8,000,000 to the institution, has 

 been elected president in succession to Mr. H. 

 H. Higginbotham. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Kansas has appointed Professor H. P. Cady, 

 of the department of chemistry, to be official 

 weather observer to carry on the work begun 

 by the late Dr. Snow forty years ago. 



The Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 has made a grant of $3,200 to Professor E. C. 

 Case, of the University of Michigan, for the- 

 preparation of two monographs upon the Per- 

 mian reptiles of North America. Four years 

 ago a grant from the same source of $1,300j 



