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industrial development. The lectures are 

 very suggestive to American geographers and 

 historians. 



Later, Professor Blanchard will give a series 

 of lectures on the geography of the French 

 Alps, and, if time permits, will speak on the 

 geographic factors which have influenced the 

 European war. These lectures are given under 

 the auspices of the department of geography, 

 and members of the profession are welcome as 

 guests. 



Professor Blanchard is giving the follow- 

 ing lectures in the Lowell Institute series at 

 5 P.M., in Huntington Hall, Boston: 



Marcli 13. "Battle of Charleroi and Mor- 



March 16. "Battle of the Marne." 

 March 20. "Fixation of the Front: Aisne, 

 Tser, Ypres, Artois, Champagne." 

 March 23. "Battle of Verdun. " 

 March 27. "Battle of the Somme." 

 March 30. "Evolution of the Tactics and Ar- 

 maments from August, 1914, to December, 1916." 



THE HAYDEN MEMORIAL AWARD 



At the last meeting of the Academy of 

 ISTatural Sciences of Philadelphia the gold 

 Hayden Memorial Geological Medal was, on 

 the recommendation of the council and the 

 special committee on the award, of which Dr. 

 R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., is chairman, voted to 

 William Morris Davis, Ph.D., emeritus pro- 

 fessor of geology in Harvard University, in 

 recognition of his distinguished work in the 

 science of geology. The medal is awarded 

 every third year " for the best publication, 

 exploration, discovery or research in the sci- 

 ences of geology and paleontology, or in such 

 particular branches thereof as may be desig- 

 nated." 



The award as first defined in 1888 took the 

 form of an annual bronze medal and the bal- 

 ance of the income of the fund. The deed of 

 gift was modified in 1900 so as to provide for a 

 gold medal every third year. 



The awards so far made are as follows : 



James Hall, of Albany, IST. T., 1890. 



Edward D. Cope, of Philadelphia, 1891. 



Edward Suess, of Vienna, 1892. 



Thomas Henry Huxley, of London, 1893. 



Gabriel August Daubree, of Paris, 1894. 



Karl A. von Zittel, of Munich, 1895. 



Giovanni Capellini, of BologTia, 1896. 



A. Karpinski, of Petrograd, 1897. 



Otto Martin Torell, of Stockliolm, 1898. 



Gilles Joseph Gustave Dewalque, of Liege, 

 1899. 



Archibald Geikie, of Edinburgh, 1902. 



Charles Doolittle "Walcott, of Washington, 

 1905. 



John Mason Clarke, of Albany, 1908. 



John Casper Branner, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, 1911. 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, of ISTew York, 

 1914. 



William Morris Davis, of Cambridge, 

 1917. 



COMMITTEES OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH 

 COUNCIL 



The following committees have been ar- 

 ranged : 



Military Committee : Charles D. Walcott, chair- 

 man. From the Army : William C. Gorgas, William 

 Crozier, George O. Squier. From the Navy: David 

 W. Taylor, Eobert S. Griffin, James D. Gatewood, 

 and Howard E. CofSn, Van H. Manning, Charles F. 

 Marvin, S. W. Stratton. 



Besearch in Educational Institutions : George E. 

 Hale, chairman. 



Promotion of Industrial Besearch: J. J. Carty, 

 chairman. 



Nitrate Supply: Arthur A. Noyes, chairman. 



Census of Besearch: S. W. Stratton, chairman. 



Chemistry: Marston T. Bogert, chairman. C. L. 

 Alsberg, L. H. Baekeland, A. A. Noyes, W. A. 

 Noyes, T. W. Richards, JuHus Stieglitz, W. E. 

 Whitney. 



Physics: E. H. Millikan, chairman. J. S. Ames, 

 F. B. Jewett, J. Langmuir, Theodore Lyman, C. E. 

 Mendenhall, Ernest Merritt, M. I. Pupin, S. W. 

 Stratton, Arthur G. Webster. 



Astronomy: E. C. Pickering, chairman. 



Botany: J. M. Coulter, chairman. 



Zoology and Animal Morphology : E. G. ConkHn, 

 chairman. 



Medicine and Hygiene: V. C. Vaughan, chair- 

 man. Frank Billings, Chas. F. Craig, David L. 

 Edsall, Simon Flexner, Frederick P. Gay, John 

 Howland, Eeid Hunt, Theodore Janeway, W. W. 

 Keen, Wm. J. Mayo, George W. McCoy, Eichard M. 



