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brated the two hundred and fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of its foxmdation on January 1. The 

 academy, under the name, 'Academia l^faturse 

 Cui'iosorum,' held its first meeting in Schwein- 

 furt on January 1, 1652, and is thus the oldest 

 academy of sciences north of Italy, the Royal 

 Society having been establisbed in 1662, and 

 the French Academy in 1666. The academy 

 began the publication of proceedings in 1670 

 and enjoyed extraordinary privileges, the presi- 

 dent and secretary being elevated to the 

 nobility, the former with the rank of count. 

 At the present time the Academy has about 

 nine hundred members and is planning for 

 the erection of a new building. 



The Association of American Universities 

 will hold its annual meeting at Chicago on 

 February 25, 26 and 27. 



President Hadley, of Tale University, will 

 give six Lowell lectures at Boston on 'The 

 History of Academic Freedom.' 



Professor B. E. Fernow, of the College of 

 Forestry, Cornell University, will lecture in 

 Ottawa, Canada, on March 6, before the Cana- 

 dian Forestry Association. 



Under the auspices of Columbia University, 

 Professor William D. Burr is giving at. the 

 Cooper Union the following lectures on me- 

 chanical engineering: 



February 4, 'Ancient Civil Engineering Works.' 



February 11, 'Bridges.' The latter portion of 

 the lecture will include the treatment of masonry 

 arches and suspension bridges, with examples of 

 applications to the longest spans yet contem- 

 plated. 



February 18, 'Water Works for Cities and 

 Towns.' 



February 25, 'Some Features of Railroad En- 

 gineering.' 



March 4, 'Nicaragua Route for the Isthmian 

 Ship Canal.' 



March 11, 'The Panama Route for the Isthmian 

 Ship Canal.' 



The lectures will be issued in book form by 

 the Columbia University Press. 



Three lectures, in German, by Max Uhle, 

 Ph.D., Hearst lecturer in anthropology, and 

 director of the excavations and explorations of 

 the University of California in Peru, are 

 being given as follows : 



February 3 and 5, 'The Sources of Ancient 

 Peruvian Civilization.' 



February 10, 'Some Incasic Ruins of Central- 

 Peru.' 



Arthur Curtiss James, Esq., has purchased 

 the collection of Ainu objects made by Pro- 

 fessor Bashford Dean last year and has pre- 

 sented it to the American Museum of Natural 

 History. The Museum has also received from 

 Mr. W. Jochelson, of the Jesup North Pacific 

 Expedition, his Koryak collection from 

 Siberia, consisting of about 1,200 pieces, 

 among which there are many objects of pre- 

 historic age. 



Peopessoe J. S. KiNGSLEY, Tufts College, 

 announces that the summer school of biology 

 known as the Harpswell Laboratory, estab- 

 lished at South Harpswell, Maine, in 1898, will 

 be open from June 16 to September 13, 

 1902 ; the regular courses of instruction begin- 

 ning July 2, and continuing for six weeks. 

 The laboratory is a small wooden building 

 directly on the shore and affords accommoda- 

 tions for fifteen or twenty students. South 

 Harpswell is in Casco Bay, sixteen miles from 

 Portland, from which place it is reached by 

 steamer. Casco Bay has a rich fauna and 

 flora and is not excelled as a collecting ground 

 by any point between Eastport and North 

 Carolina. Already 529 species of invertebrates 

 have been reported from its waters and many 

 novelties turn up each season. South Harps- 

 well itself is well situated, being at the ex- 

 tremity of a narrow peninsula, ten miles in 

 length, thus ensuring freedom from hot 

 weather. In 1901 the thermometer did not 

 reach 80° in the laboratory. 



The New York State Medical Society at its 

 session in Albany on January 29 received 

 recommendations of the legislative committee 

 as follows: 



That local Boards of Health be requested to 

 follow the work of the Milk Committee of the 

 New York City Medical Society in the efforts 

 made to provide pure milk. 



That the recommendation making toward the 

 establishment of a National Health Board, with 

 a representative in the President's cabinet, be 

 indorsed. 



That the questions involved in Dr. Koch's pa- 



