Mabch 13, 1914] 



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Dr. J. W. L. Glaislier, Professor H. F. Newall 

 and Professor H. H. Turner; Treasurer, Mr. 

 E. B. Knobel; Secretaries, Professor A. S. 

 Eddington and Professor A. Fowler; Foreign 

 Secretary, Professor Arthur Schuster. 



At the recent annual meeting of the State 

 Microscopical Society of Illinois the constitu- 

 tion and by-laws were revised and the follow- 

 ing officers elected for the ensuing year : 



President — David L. Zook. 



First Vice-president — Walter F. Herzberg. 



Second Vice-president — Francis T. Harmon. 



Treftsurer — Frank I. Packard. 



Corresponding Secretary — N. S. Amstutz. 



Secretary — ^V. A. Latham. 



Curator — Henry F. Fuller. 



Trustees—M.. D. Ewell, B. U. Hills, Albert Mc- 

 Calla, S. 8. Graves and W. G. King. 

 An annual conversazione meeting will be held 

 on March 12 at the rooms of the Chicago 

 Press Club. The annual soiree in connection 

 with the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Lin- 

 coln Park, will* be held some time in April. 



" Men of the Old Stone Age in Europe : 

 their Environment, Life and Art " was the 

 subject of the annual Hitchcock Lectures, just 

 given at the University of California as the 

 series for 1914. This year's Hitchcock Lec- 

 turer was Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, research 

 professor of zoology in Columbia University, 

 and president of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. The latest fruits of excava- 

 tion and comparative study in various parts 

 of the world were gathered together by Pro- 

 fessor Osborn in these lectures. He told of 

 Pithecanthropus, the earliest human type as 

 yet discovered; of the recent important Eng- 

 lish discovery of the Piltdown man; of the 

 Heidelberg man; of the Neanderthal human 

 type ; of the Cro-Magnon race, and of the local 

 Grimaldi race. He described the mural art of 

 such caverns as those of Font de Gaume, in 

 France, and Pasiega, Castillo and Altamira, in 

 Spain. After telling of the appearance of the 

 Grenelle race and the Azilian-Tardenoisian 

 culture, he completed his lectures with an ac- 

 count of the beginning of the Neolithic Period, 

 its culture and the sources of its main races. 

 Dr. W. M. Davis, Sturgis-Hooper professor 



emeritus at Harvard University, has gone 

 from Cambridge on a trip to several of the is- 

 land groups in the Pacific Ocean, where he will 

 study coral reefs. On the outward voyage he 

 will visit the Fiji and other islands, in Au- 

 gust he will attend the colonial meeting of the 

 British Association to be held in Australia, 

 and in September will take part in a supple- 

 mentary meeting promoted by the government 

 of New Zealand. On the return voyage, he 

 will stop at the Society Islands. The trip is 

 made possible by a grant from the Shaler Me- 

 morial Fund. Professor Davis lectured be- 

 fore the Colorado Scientific Society at the 

 State School of Mines, Golden, Colo., on 

 " The Front Eange of the Rocky Mountains," 

 February 3; at the State University, Boulder, 

 Colo., on " Theories of Coral Reefs," February 

 4; at Brigham Young University, Prove, 

 Utah, on " The Lessons of the Colorado 

 Canyon," February 6, and before the Leconte 

 Club at the University of California, Berke- 

 ley, Cal., on " The Topographic Features of 

 Desert Regions," February 10. 



The Cutter lectures on preventive medicine 

 and hygiene are to be given at the Harvard 

 Medical School this year by Charles V. 

 Ohapin, M.D., superintendent of health. Prov- 

 idence, and Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief sta- 

 tistician, Bureau of the Census. Dr. Chapin 

 will give six lectures on municipal sanitation, 

 as follows : 



March 20, "Science and Sanitation." 

 March 27, "Efficiency of Public Health Meas- 

 ures. ' ' 



April 2, "Organization of the Health Depart- 

 ment. ' ' 



April 9, ' ' Research and Publicity. ' ' 



April 16, ' ' Nuisance Problems. ' ' 



April 30, "Contagious Disease Problems." 



Dr. Wilbur's subject will be " Vital Statistics 

 in Massachusetts and the United States," and 

 the dates are March 25 and 26. 



Dr. John M. Clarke, state geologist of New 

 York, lectured before the Society of Sigma 

 Xi of the Ohio State University on Decem- 

 ber 2Y, his subject being " Land Bridges 

 Across the Atlantic." 



