December 12, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ical Survey. Dr. Day will discuss the geograph- 

 ical distribution of soft and hard coal in the 

 United States, the methods of mining, and the 

 manner in which the output is distributed 

 throughout the country. 



November 29 — ' Explorations in the Arctics, 

 1898-1902' (illustrated). Commander Robert E. 

 Peary, U.S.N. Mr. Peary will describe his Arctic 

 work of the last four years, during which he 

 gained the most northerly known land and the 

 highest point yet reached on the western hemis- 

 phere. 



December 12 — ' Argentina, Present and Future ' 

 (illustrated), E. L. Corthell, C.E. Mr. Corthell 

 for the past two years has been consulting engi- 

 neer of the Ministry of Public Works in Argen- 

 tina, and has thus had an exceptional opportunity 

 to study the recent remarkable development and 

 the tremendous possibilities of this vast South 

 American republic. 



January 9 — ' The Turk and His Rebellious Sub- 

 jects ' (illustrated), Mr. William E. Curtis. The 

 restless and heterogeneous people of Macedonia 

 and of the Sultan's European provinces will be the 

 subject of an interesting address by Mr. Curtis. 



January 23 — ' The Tragedy of Saint Pierre ' 

 (illustrated), Mr. George Kennan. 



Provisional arrangements have also been 

 made for lectures on Colombia and the Isth- 

 mian Canal; 'America before the Advent of 

 Man ' ; ' The Geographic Distribution of In- 

 sanity in the United States ' ; ' Russia of To- 

 day' (by Paul du Chaillu), and a lecture by 

 Mr. John Muir. 



Regular meetings of the society for the 

 presentation of technical papers and discus- 

 sion ■ will be held on Friday evenings, at 8 

 o'clock, commencing November 7, and alter- 

 nating with the popular lectures. As the new 

 home of the society will not be completed be;- 

 fore January 15, 1903, these meetings will 

 be held for the present in the Assembly Hall 

 of the Cosmos Club. The course has been 

 planned to form a series on the geographic 

 work of the great scientific bureaus of the 

 goveriunent. Mr. Richard U. Goode, chair- 

 man of the committee on technical meetings, 

 announces the following program: 



November 7 — ' Some of the Administrative and 

 Industrial Problems of Porto Rico,' Hon. Wm. F. 

 Willoughby, Treasurer of Porto Rico. 



November 21— ' The Work of the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey,' Hon. O. H. Tittmann, 

 Superintendent U. S. Coast and Geodetic iSurvey. 



December 5—' The Work of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau,' Dr. Willis L. Moore, Chief U. S. Weather 

 Bureau. 



December 19 — ' The U. S. Signal Corps,' Gen. 

 A. W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer, U.S.A. 



At later meetings the geographic work of 

 the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Depart- 

 ment, of the Experiment Stations of the Agri- 

 cultural Department, of the Census Office, of 

 the Naval Observatory, of the Geological Sur- 

 vey and of the Library of Congress will be 

 discussed. 



The lenten course of five lectures will be 

 delivered in Columbia Theater, F street, near 

 Twelfth, at 4:20 o'clock, on Wednesday after- 

 noons of February 11, 18, 25 and March 4, 11. 

 The subject of this course and the speakers 

 assigned for the special topics will be an- 

 nounced in a later program. 



The headquarters of the society will con- 

 tinue to be Rooms 107-108 Corcoran Build- 

 ing, Washington, D. C, until the new home 

 of the society, on the southwest corner of 

 Sixteenth and M streets, is completed. 



A GENERAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 

 A COMMITTEE of this socicty, with Professor 

 George F. Barker as chairman and Dr. I. 

 Minnis Hays as secretary, has sent out the 

 following letter: 



The very gratifying success of the general meet- 

 ing of The American Philosophical Society, held 

 last April, has established most satisfactorily the 

 claim that the interests of useful knowledge in 

 the United States may be greatly promoted by 

 holding an annual general meeting of the society. 

 Such a meeting, not only from the information 

 derived from the papers presented, but also from 

 their discussion, has proved attractive to its mem- 

 bers from all parts of the country and has mark- 

 edly broadened the field of usefulness of this, the 

 oldest scientific societj' in America. 



At the concluding session of the general meet- 

 ing held last April it was unanimously resolved 

 that a second general meeting be held in April, 

 1903. In accordance with this resolution the 

 said general meeting of the society will take place 



