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history and manipulation of bees. (Illustrated by 

 moving pictures.) 



November 18. Professor George D. Louderbaek. 

 department of geology, University of California. 

 Geological explorations in China. (Illustrated.) 

 These lectures are well received by the people 

 of San Francisco and the number of regular 

 attendants is particularly noteworthy. The 

 auditorium of the academy has been filled to 

 its capacity several times during the past 

 month. 



The forty-second year of the Ecole d'Anthro- 

 pologie de Paris opened on November third 

 with courses offered as follows : 



1. E. Anthony, Development of the brain in man 

 and the apes. 



2. L. Capitan, Art and architecture during the 

 neolithic and protohistorie periods. 



3. G. Herve, Ethnology and ethnography in 

 France during the eighteenth century. 



4. P. G. Mahoudeau, The precursors and the au- 

 thors of evolution: Buff on, Lamarck, Darwin. 



5. L. Manouvrier, Ethnic psychology. 



6. A. de Mortillet, Burial customs among ancient 

 and modern primitive races. 



7. 0. Papillault, Psycho-social values and soph- 

 isms. 



8. F. Schrader, Geographic causes of rapproche- 

 ment and differentiation among human groups. — 

 Evolution of the old world. 



9. J. Vinson, Primitive languages, popular lan- 

 guage, folk-lore. 



In addition there are two short courses of eight 

 lectures each on: (1) The survival of primitive in- 

 dustries, by D. Bellet; and (2) Falsehood from 

 the viewpoint of anthropology and criminology, by 

 Paul-Boncour. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Tale UisrivERSiTY receives the sum of $300,- 

 000 by the will of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness, 

 who died on December 6, 1916. 



Harvard University has received a bequest 

 from the estate of Horace I>avis amounting to 

 $10,000, the income of which is to be used for 

 the purchase of books for the Harvard Univer- 

 sity Library relating to the Northern Pacific 

 Ocean and its shores. The university has also 

 received a gift of $50,000 from Mrs. S. Park- 

 man Blake, the income to be used " for the care 



of the yard or other grounds of the univer- 

 sity." The gift is a memorial to her husband, 

 S. Parkman Blake, of the class of 1855, and to 

 her son, Robert Parkman Blake, of the class 

 of 1894. 



In accordance with the terms of the will of 

 the late Richard Black Sewall, of Boston, there 

 are public bequests amounting to $380,000, and 

 the residuary legatees are Harvard University 

 and Yale University. The Boston Museum of 

 Fine Arts, the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 

 Williams College and Amherst College each 

 receives $30,000. Tuskegee Institute and 

 Hampton Normal Institute are each given 

 $5,000. 



The Converse Library at Amherst College 

 was dedicated on November 8. The new $250,- 

 000 building is the gift of Edmund C. Con- 

 verse, of New York, in memory of his brother, 

 James B. Converse, who was a member of the 

 class of '67 at Amherst. Mr. Converse, Her- 

 bert Putnam, librarian of Congress, and 

 George A. Plimpton, of New York, president 

 of the college board of trustees, took part in 

 the exercises. 



The University of Rochester has expanded 

 its work in psychology. Quarters are now pro- 

 vided for an experimental laboratory, and are 

 thoroughly equipped for experimental pur- 

 poses. Two experimental courses will be 

 given during the present year. One course, ex- 

 tending through the college year, emphasizes 

 the psychology of the sense organs and more 

 complex mental processes. The second course 

 takes up the study of comparative psychology. 

 Quarters for animal experimentation have been 

 provided. The course is under the charge of 

 L. A. Pechstein, Ph.D. (Chicago). 



Arthur L. Foley, head of the department 

 of physics of Indiana University, has been 

 elected research professor in the Waterman 

 Institute, the first to be elected to this posi- 

 tion. The institute was founded and endowed 

 a few years since by Dr. Luther Dana Water- 

 man, a retired physician of Indianapolis. It 

 is under the control of the trustees of Indiana 

 University and is in part supported by the uni- 



