October 5, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



445 



£ s. d. 



Rainfall and Lake and River Discharge. 10 



Section F — Economic Science and Statistics. 



International Trade Statistics 15 



Gold Coinage in Circulation in the 



United Kingdom 10 



Section H — Anthropology. 



Excavations in Crete 100 



Glastonbury Lake Village 30 



Excavations on Roman Sites in Britain lo 



Anthropometric Investigations 17 17 3 



Age of Stone Circles 3 



Anthropological Photographs 3 3 6 



Section I — Physiology. 



Metabolism of Individual Tissues 45 



The Ductless Glands 25 



Effect of Climate upon Health and 



Disease 55 



Section K — Botany. 



Physiology of Heredity 30 



South African Cycads, etc 35 



Botanical Photographs 5 



Structure of Fossil Plants 5 



Peat Moss Deposits 7 5 7 



Marsh Vegetation 15 



Section L — Educational Science. 



Studies suitable for Elementary Schools 10 



Conditions of Health in Schools 5 



Corresponding Societies Committee. 



For Preparation of Report 20 < 



Total 1061 12 4 



THE SILLIMAN LECTURES AT YALE 

 UNIVERSITY. 



The Silliman lectures for 1906 will be given 

 in the Sloane Laboratory of Yale University 

 by Professor Walther Nernst, of the Univer- 

 sity of Berlin, beginning on October 22. The 

 subjects of the twelve lectures are as follows: 



1-3. ' General Application of Thermodynamics 

 to Chemistry. The Equation of the Reaction 

 Isochore Q:=RT-{dlnK/dT) : Monday, October 

 22; Tuesday, October 23; Wednesday, October 24. 



4. ' Integration of this Equation and Prelimi- 

 nary Discussion of the Undetermined Integration 

 Constant.' Thursday, October 25. 



5-6. ' The Relation between the Internal and 

 the Free Energies at Very Low Temperatures.' 

 Friday, October 26; Monday, October 29. 



7-8. ' Determination and Evaluation of the 



Integration Constant by means of the Curve of 

 Vapor Pressure.' Tuesday, October 30 (two 

 hours ) . 



9. ' New Experimental Researches on Chemical 

 Equilibrium at High Temperatures.' Wednesday, 

 October 31. 



10-12. ' Examples for the Theoretical Calcula- 

 tion of Chemical Equilibrium from the Heat of 

 Reaction: (a) Homogeneous Systems; (6) Hetero- 

 geneous Systems.' Thursday, November 1; Fri- 

 day, November 2 ( two hours ) . 



The Silliman memorial lectures on subjects 

 connected with ' the natural and moral world ' 

 were established by the will of Augustus Ely 

 Silliman, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The Mrs. 

 Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial fund, which 

 supports this lectureship, came into the pos- 

 session of Yale University in 1901. The pre- 

 ceding lecturers have been: 



1903. Peofessob Thomson, Cambridge Univer- 

 sity: 'Electricity and Matter.' 



1904. Professor Sherrington, University of 

 Liverpool : ' Integrative Action of the Nervous 

 System.' 



1905. Professor Rutherford, McGill Univer- 

 sity: 'Radioactive Transformations.' 



HONORARY DEGREES AT HARVARD 

 UNIVERSITY. 



At the academic session held in Sanders 

 Theater on September 26, in connection with 

 the dedication of the new buildings of the 

 Medical School, honorary degrees were con- 

 ferred by President Eliot in the following 

 words : 



In accordance with time-honored university 

 usage on occasions of rejoicing, I now create, 

 in exercise of authority given me by the 

 president and fellows and the board of over- 

 seers, 



HONORARY DOCTOR OF ARTS. 



Charles Allerton Coolidge, architect, designer 

 of admirable buldings for academic and scien- 

 tific uses in California, Illinois, New York and 

 Massachusetts; designer of the monumental new 

 buildings of the Harvard Medical School, buildings 

 in which are combined spaciousness, splendor of 

 material, fine grouping, durability and careful 

 adaptation to their special uses; through pro- 

 fessional skill and patience an influential pro- 

 moter of the purposes and wishes of the Medical 

 Faculty. 



