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longevity of asylum inmates, increased certi- 

 fication, and so on. 



THE LOWELL LECTURES. 



Lectures under the Lowell Institute, Bos- 

 ton, are announced as follows : 



The first course will be eight lectures by 

 Pereival Lowell, non-resident professor of 

 astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, director of the Lowell observatory. 

 Flagstaff, Ar., and medalist (Mars) of the 

 French Astronomic Society, on ' Mars as the 

 Abode of Life.' (1) ' Planetary Evolution : 

 the Conditions and Possibilities of Life.' (2) 

 ' Natural Features of Mars.' (3) ' Geology 

 and Areology : Mars and Glacial Epochs.' (4) 

 ' Geology and Areology : Loss of Oceans and 

 Growth of Deserts.' (5) ' Habitability : Prob- 

 ability of Life on Mars.' (6) 'Non-Natural 

 Features : Canals and Oases.' (7) ' Metamor- 

 phoses of the Canals.' (8) 'Habitation: the 

 Proofs of Life on Mars.' On Mondays and 

 Thursdays, at 8 p.m.;, beginning October 15. 



The second course will be eight lectures (in 

 French) by M. le Dr. Pierre Janet, professeur 

 de psychologic au College de France, directeur 

 du laboratoire de psychologie de la Salpetriere, 

 on ' Psychotherapeutics or the Applications of 

 Psychology to Therapeutics ' (La psycho- 

 therapie, les applications de la psychologie a 

 la therapeutique). (1) ' Resume Historique.' 

 (2) ' Principe de la Psychotherapie. Influence 

 des Etats Psychologiques sur la Sante Phys- 

 ique et Morale.' (3) ' Psychotherapie Gen- 

 erale, L'Exhortation Morale.' (4) ' Les 

 Methodes Suggestives.' (5) ' Les Methodes 

 D'Isolement et de Repos.' (6) ' L'education 

 Motrice.' (7) ' L'education de la Sensibilite, 

 I'^sthesiogenie.' (8) ' Le Relevement de la 

 Tension Psychologique I'Education de I'emo- 

 tivite.' On Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8 p.m., 

 beginning October 23. 



The third course will be eight lectures by 

 Barrett Wendell, professor of English in Har- 

 vard University, on ' Contemporary France.' 

 (1) ' The Universities.' (2) ' The Structure 

 of Society.' (3) 'The Family.' (4) 'The 

 French Temperament.' (5) ' The Relation 

 of Literature to Life.' (6) ' The Question of 



Religion.' (7) ' The Revolution and Some 

 of Its Effects.' (8) ' The Republic and Democ- 

 racy.' On Mondays and Thursdays, at 8 p.m., 

 beginning November 12. 



The fourth course will be eight lectures by 

 William James, professor of philosophy in 

 Harvard University, on " The Movement 

 Called ' Pragmatism ' in Recent Philosophy." 

 On Wednesday and Saturdays, at 8 p.m., be- 

 ginning November 14. 



The fifth course will be eight lectures by 

 Alfred C. Haddon, Sc.D., F.R.S., university 

 lecturer in ethnology, Cambridge, England, on 

 ' The Melanesians : Racial Problems, Distribu- 

 tion of Culture, Social and Religious Evolu- 

 tion.' On Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8 p.m., 

 beginning November 20. 



The sixth course will be two lectures by 

 William H. Furness, 3d, M.D., F.R.G.S., fel- 

 low of the Anthropological Institute of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, etc., on ' The Kayan and 

 Kenyah Tribes of Borneo, and the Natives of 

 Uap in the Caroline Islands.' On Monday, 

 December 10, and Thursday, December 13, at 

 8 p.m. 



The seventh course will be eight lectures by 

 Professor George E. Woodberry, on ' Poetic 

 Energy.' On Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8 p.m., 

 beginning January 8, 1907. 



The eighth course will be eight lectures by 

 Colonel Sir Colin Scott Moncrieff, LL.D., 

 knight commander of the Star of India, etc., 

 on ' The English in India and Egypt.' On 

 Mondays and Thursdays, at 8 p.m., beginning 

 February 4. 



The ninth course will be eight lectures by 

 Frank M. Chapman, curator of ornithology, 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York City, on ' The Distribution of North 

 American Birds.' On Tuesdays and Fridays, 

 at 8 p.m., beginning February 5. 



The tenth course will be six lectures by 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot, D.Sc, LL.D., etc., 

 James Stillman professor of comparative anat- 

 omy in the Harvard Medical School, on ' The 

 Problem of Age, Growth and Death.' On 

 Mondays and Thursdays, at 8 p.m., beginning 

 March 4. 



The eleventh course will be eight lectures 



