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absence during the present academic year, 

 which, he will spend in research in Vienna. 



Professoe George ¥. Fullerton, professor 

 of philosophy in Columbia University, has 

 been given leave of absence and is spending 

 the present year at Munich. His courses are 

 given by Professor Arthur O. Lovejoy, of 

 Washington University. 



Professor "William A. Hammond, of Cor- 

 nell University, will lecture throughout the 

 year at the University of Pennsylvania on 

 ancient and medieval philosophy. 



Mr. 0. C. EoBERTSON, of the Tale Forestry 

 School, after a tour of the European forests, 

 will engage in government forestry work in 

 Orange Eiver Colony, South Africa. 



Professor Austin Cary, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been engaged by the Maine State 

 Forestry Commission for a series of lectures 

 covering several weeks, during which time he 

 will speak before granges, schools and other 

 audiences in citifes and towns in all parts of 

 the state. Professor Caiy will commence his 

 tour during the first week of November. 



Dr. a. a. Macdonell, Boden professor of 

 Sanskrit at Oxford, has left England on leave 

 of absence for India and Ceylon in further- 

 ance of Sanskrit research. All the most 

 important Sanskrit libraries, areheological 

 sites and museums, and university colleges in 

 India and Ceylon will be visited, and confer- 

 ences will be held with native scholars. One 

 of the objects of the tour is to acquire old 

 Sanskrit manuscripts where opportunity of- 

 fers, and another to collect material for a 

 Dictionary of Indian Religion and Mythology, 

 illustrated and treated historically. 



Dr. George Byron Gordon, curator of the 

 section of American archeology at the Mu- 

 seum of Arts and Sciences of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, has been making explora- 

 tions among the Indian tribes of Alaska, and 

 has secured many valuable specimens. 



Dr. William H. Nichols, chairman of the 

 board of directors of the General Chemical 

 Company, gave the address at the Founder's 

 Day celebration at Lehigh University on Oc- 

 tober 10. 



Dr. Joseph W. Eiohards, of Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, lectured before the Franklin Insiti- 

 tute of Philadelphia, on October 10, on the 

 " Thermo-electric Production of Iron and 

 Steel." 



Birmingham University has arranged a 

 course of lectures during the coming session, 

 especially in the interests of the industrial 

 classes, on the lines followed in an experi- 

 mental series last winter. The principal. Sir 

 Oliver Lodge, will deal in five divisions with 

 " Pioneers of Science," and other lectures will 

 be delivered by Professor J. H. Poynting, 

 Professor C. Lapworth and Professor T. 

 Turner. Some of the subjects included in the 

 lectures have special reference to local indus- 

 tries. 



A course in experimental physiology, under 

 the direction of Professor Graham Lusk, is 

 offered to teachers on Fridays at three o'clock, 

 at University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College, 338 East 26th street, New York City. 

 The program of the Harvey Society course 

 of lectures for the coming year is as follows: 

 October 26— Professor E. 0. Jordan, University 

 of Chicago: "The Problems of Sanitation." 



November 16— Professor James Ewing, Cornell 

 University: "Etiology of Tumors." 



November 30--Professor D. L. Edsall, Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania: "The Bearing of Metabol- 

 ism Studies on Clinical Medicine." 



January 11 — Professor Ernest H. Starling, Uni- 

 versity of London : " The Chemical Control of the 

 Body." 



January 25— Professor George W. Crile, West- 

 ern Reserve University : " Shock." 



February 8 — Professor Joseph Jastrow, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin: "Subconsciousness." 



February 22 — Professor Otto Folin, Harvard 

 University: "Problems of Chemistry in Hospital 

 Practise." 



March 7 — Professor Ross G. Harrison, Yale 

 University: "Embryonic Transplantation and the 

 Development of the Nervous System." 



April 11— Professor E. A. Schafer, University 

 of Edinburgh : " Artificial Respiration in Man." 



The lectures are given under the patronage 

 of the New York Academy of Medicine and 

 are held at the Academy Building, 17 West 

 4:3d street, on Saturday evenings at 8:30 



