JANUARY 19, 1912] 
before the department of psychology of Co- 
lumbia University. The lectures are on Jan- 
uary 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 and 31, at 4.10 p.m. 
The subjects are as follows: 
Edward D. Zeller, the scholar in his field. The 
historian of ancient philosophy, his personality, 
his learning, his career, characteristics as a 
teacher, his essays, historical method and posi- 
tion, and an estimate of his achievements. 
Edward von Hartmann, the philosopher of tem- 
perament. Personal reminiscences of his traits, 
his early writings, outline of his chief positions 
in his major and his minor contributions, critique 
of his type of pessimism. 
' Hermann Lotze, the harmonizer. The man and 
professor, his early work as physiologist and 
physician, the chief position taken in his Micro- 
cosm and his Ethics, his system as an expression 
of his character and its historical significance. 
Why he never left a school. 
Theodor Fechner, the animist. His life, works, 
personal reminiscences, his mystic papers, his 
unique type of idealism, his lapse to spiritual- 
ism, the psychophysie law and what it meant to 
him. 
Hermann yon Helmholtz, the ideal man of science. 
His boyhood, growth and early manhood, his 
methods of life and work, his essays and ad- 
dresses, the fourth dimension of space, charac- 
terization of the chief discoveries in his optics 
and acoustics and their results. 
Wilhelm Wundt, a scientific philosopher. His 
early career, his methods of work, his early, and 
a glimpse at his later, writings, some criticisms 
and appreciations. 
Nature states that the jubilee annual meet- 
ing of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union was 
held at Heckmondwike, on December 16, at 
the place where fifty years ago the union had 
its birth. There were more than three hun- 
dred members present, including delegates 
from thirty-eight affiliated societies of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. The presiden- 
tial address of Mr. Alfred Harker, F.R.S., on 
“ Petrology in Yorkshire,” was delivered. Mr. 
T. Sheppard resigned his position as honorary 
secretary, and in view of his nine years’ work 
in that position was elected an honorary life 
member of the union. Mr. W. Cash was sim- 
ilarly honored. Mr. J. W. Taylor, of Leeds, 
was elected president for 1912. The new sec- 
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retaries are Dr. T. W. Woodhead and Mr. W. 
KE. L. Wattam, Technical College, Hudders- 
field. The annual meeting for 1912 will be 
held at Hull on December 14. 
As we learn from the New York Evening 
Post an old landmark which has figured ex- 
tensively in the medical and surgical progress 
of the city for nearly a half century is to be 
sold by auction on February 1. The property 
is the old Mott Memorial at No. 64 Madison 
Avenue, opposite Madison Square Garden. 
The memorial was founded in 1866 by the 
widow of Dr. Alexander Mott, who in his day 
was one of the foremost surgeons of this coun- 
try. Many surgical and obstetrical instru- 
ments, invented by Dr. Mott, as well as nu- 
merous morbid specimens he collected during 
his travels, were partly destroyed with the 
burning of the Medical College on Fourteenth 
Street. His widow succeeded in gathering 
mementos of his life and placed them in the 
Madison Avenue house, which was incorpo- 
rated as the Mott Memorial in 1866, and con- 
ducted for many years by Professor Alex- 
ander B. Mott. It contained a library of more 
than 4,000 volumes, exclusively on medical 
and surgical topics, which were consulted 
freely by students and physicians. In the will 
of Mrs. Mott there was a proviso that in the 
event that the property should become burden- 
some the trustees were directed to sell it. The 
Memorial, after several years of uncertainty, 
during which the trustees hoped a way could 
be devised to perpetuate it, was closed in 1909, 
and the books, instruments and plates were 
transferred to the New York Academy of 
Medicine, of which Dr. Mott was president 
for a long period. 
Tue fourteenth International Congress of 
Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology, will 
be held at Geneva, Switzerland, during the 
first week of September, 1912. The last ses- 
sion of this congress was held at Monaco in 
the spring of 1906. 
Tue American Museum Journal reports 
that Mr. Stefansson, of the Museum’s Arctic 
expedition, has made a discovery of an archeo- 
logical nature at his Jast winter camp near 
