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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 41.5. 



This committee has issued the following ap- 

 peal: 



A movement has been inaugurated in Germany 

 to erect a statue at Berlin to the late Professor 

 Rudolf Virchow. 



Representatives of science and art, irrespective 

 of political parties, have joined the committee 

 constituted for this purpose, and it is hoped that 

 the appeal recently issued by the committee will 

 meet with a very general response. 



At the same time it is felt that this movement 

 ought to be more than an exclusively German 

 one. Professor Virchow's labors in medicine, 

 public health, anthropology, ethnology, and 

 archeology have benefited the world at large, 

 and amongst his pupils have been men of every 

 nationality. It is believed that in this country 

 in particular, of which he Avas ever a staunch 

 friend, and amongst the men of science of which 

 he numbered many devoted admirers, a general 

 desire will be felt to participate in the movement 

 intended to do liomage to him at the seat of his 

 labors. 



With this object a British committee has been 

 formed, the chairmanship of which has been under- 

 taken by Lord Lister, with Lord Avebury as hon. 

 treasurer, and Sir Felix Semons as hon. secretary. 



The committee now invite subscriptions from 

 all those who wish to pay a last tribute to the 

 memory of one of the greatest men of our time. 

 Whilst it has been decided not to limit the maxi- 

 mum amount of contributions, in order not to 

 check the generosity of those who may desire to 

 .show in a substantial form their appreciation of 

 Professor Virchow's services to humanity, the 

 committee are particularly anxious that it should 

 be understood that even the smallest contributions 

 will be cordially welcomed, as the main object 

 of the British collection is to testify to the wide- 

 spread amount of esteem and veneration which 

 the deceased scientist enjoyed in this country. 



Cheques and postal orders made payable to 

 ' Virchow Memorial,' and crossed ' Messrs. 

 Robarts, Lubbock and Co.,' may be sent to ' the 

 Hon. Treasurer of the Virchow Memorial, care 

 of Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock and Co., 15, Lombard 

 street, London, E. C.,' who will send an acknowl- 

 edgment to the individual contributors. 



When the list has been closed, the hon. treasurer 

 will forward the amount to the treasurer of the 

 Berlin committee, together with a list of the con- 

 tributors, but the amount of the individual con- 

 tributions will not be stated. 



We enclose a list of the committee, and have 

 the honor to remain. Sir, 



Yours faithfully, 



Llstee, 



AVEBUUY, 



Felix Semon. 

 London, Noxember 21. 



LECTURE COURSES OF THE NATIONAL 

 GEOGRAPBIG SOCIETY. 



DuEiNG the season of 1902-1903 the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society presents in Wash- 

 ington, D. 0., three courses of meetings — 

 popular lectures, technical meetings and lenten 

 lectures. These courses have been planned 

 with great care to include those problems of 

 a geographic character which are of special 

 interest to the general public at the present 

 time. Arrangements have been made for ad- 

 dresses in the popular course on the geo- 

 graphic distribution and mining of hard and 

 soft coal, Mr. Peary's work in the Arctics 

 during the last four years, the tragedy of 

 Saint Pierre, Colombia and the Isthmian 

 Canal, the commercial expansion of Argen- 

 tina and the Macedonian question. The ar- 

 rangements for the later part of the season 

 are so far provisional as to permit the intro- 

 duction of specially timely topics. 



The interest shown last year in the tech- 

 nical meetings, which were planned for scien- 

 tific men actively engaged in geographic work 

 and for persons specially interested in such 

 work, has led the board to continue svich 

 meetings. 



The subject of the afternoon, or lenten, 

 course will be announced in a later program. 



The popular course will be delivered in the 

 National Eifles Armory, G street between 

 Ninth and Tenth streets northwest, on Fri- 

 day evenings, at 8 o'clock, commencing No- 

 vember 14 and alternating with the technical 

 meetings; which will be held in the Assembly 

 Hall of Cosmos Club until the new home of 

 the Society on Sixteenth and M streets is 

 completed. The following dates have been 

 definitely assigned: 



November 14 — ' The Coal Resources of the 

 United States' (illustrated), Dr. David T. Day, 

 Chief Division of Mineral Resources, U. S. Geolog- 



