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as soon as the committee reports the change 

 will be made. All the weights and measures 

 used by the firm, whether lineal, square or 

 cubic, will be metric. For money calculations 

 the pound sterling will be adopted as the unit, 

 and this will be subdivided decimally. 



The Wisconsin Natural History Society 

 announces the following series of nine public 

 lectures to be given during the season of 

 1906-7 at the Public Museum, Milwaukee. 

 This society is one of the oldest of its kind 

 in the west, having been founded in 185Y. At 

 the May meeting the fiftieth anniversary of 

 its foundation will be celebrated. 



October 25. — Dr. R. M. Strong, University of 

 Chicago, * Colors of Birds.' ( Illustrated by stere- 

 opticon. ) 



November 22. — Dr. E. C. Case, Wisconsin State 

 Normal School, ' Geological Development of 

 Scenery.' (Illustrated by stereopticon. ) 



December 20. — Professor C. 0. Whitman, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, ' The Origin of Species.' 

 (Illustrated by charts.) 



January 31. — C. T. Brues, Milwaukee Public 

 Museum, ' The Hole Played by Insects in the 

 Transmission of Certain Diseases of Man and the 

 Higher Animals.' (Illustrated by stereopticon.) 



February 28. — Professor S. W. Williston, The 

 University of Chicago, ' The Phylogeny of the 

 Elephant.' (Illustrated by stereopticon.) 



March 28. — Dr. S. Graenicher, Milwaukee, ' The 

 Adaptive Coloration of Insects.' (Illustrated by 

 steropticon. ) 



April 25. — H. L. Ward, Milwaukee Public 

 Museum, ' Museum Collecting.' ( Illustrated by 

 stereopticon. ) 



May 30.— The Fiftieth Anniversary of the 

 Founding of the Society. — C. H. Doerflinger will 

 give a brief sketch of the founding of the society, 

 followed by Professor E. A. Birge, The University 

 of Wisconsin, ' Science and the People.' 



June 27. — I. N. Mitchell, Wisconsin State 

 Normal School, ' Burbank's Work with Plants.' 

 (Illustrated by stereopticon.) 



Professor A. E. Crook, curator of the Illi- 

 nois State Museum of Natural History, an- 

 nounces that a course of popular lectures on 

 natural history and travel will be given in the 

 Arsenal Auditorium on Saturday evenings at 

 eight o'clock as follows: 



December 1. — A. R. Crook, Ph.D., Curator, Illi- 

 nois State Museum of Natural History, ' The 



Making of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.* 

 ( Illustrated. ) 



December 8. — 0. C. Farrington, Ph.D., Curator 

 of Geology, Field Columbian Museum, ' American 

 Caverns.' (Illustrated.) 



December 15.— H. G. Keppel, Ph.D., North- 

 western University, ' Holland and the Hollanders.' 

 ( Illustrated. ) 



January 12. — Chas. F. Millspaugh, Ph.D., 

 Curator of Botany, Field Columbian Museum, 

 ' Japan Resourceful.' ( Illustrated. ) 



January 19. — Professor S. W. Parr, University 

 of Illinois, 'What is Coal?' (Illustrated.) 



January 26. — H. Foster Bain, Ph.D., State 

 Geologist, ' Origin of Fuels.' 



The Educational Times states that an im- 

 portant international inquiry into the methods 

 and results of raoral training in schools at 

 home and abroad has been initiated in London. 

 It is proposed to institute an inquiry, con- 

 ducted by trained investigators, who will visit 

 many European countries, the United States 

 and Japan, to ascertain the conclusions which 

 the best authorities in the different countries 

 have reached as the outcome of their recent 

 efforts. It is hoped to complete this inquiry 

 and to publish the reports of the investigators 

 by the autumn of 1907. The committee, whicli 

 it is desired to strengthen by the admission 

 of many more distinguished names, already in- 

 cludes, among others, the Bishops of Ripon, 

 Hereford and Stepney, Sir Edward Fry the 

 Right Hon. A. Dyke Acland, former minister 

 of education. Sir Oliver Lodge, the Rev. J. B. 

 Paton, D.D. (of Nottingham), Mr. Harrold 

 Johnson, Secretary of the Moral Instruction 

 League and Professor M. E. Sadler, LL.D., 

 who is acting as hon. secretary at 8 Bucking- 

 ham Street, Strand, W. C. 



The Copenhagen correspondent of the Med- 

 ical Record writes : " Dr. Schaldemose will be 

 appointed successor to Professor Wanscher, 

 who died six months ago. The competition 

 has been very close, not less than eight of 

 our most prominent younger surgeons having 

 entered it. Each competitor had to publish 

 a work of no small size on a surgical topic of 

 his own choosing and to deliver a clinical lec- 

 ture with three hours' preparation. Three of 

 the competitors, Drs, P. N. Hansen, Lendorf, 

 and Schaldemose, were then admitted to the 



