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Japan, the party returning by way of Hono- 

 lulu and San Francisco. 



Mr. Beebe has been granted a twelve months' 

 leave of absence without pay, and in his ab- 

 sence his correspondence and the continuing 

 of his experimental work at the Zoological 

 Park will be carried on by Mr. Lee S. Cran- 

 dall. 



The results of the expedition will be pub- 

 lished in monographic form, illustrated with 

 colored plates of all the more important 

 species of pheasants, by Charles E. Knight, 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall. 

 The treatment will be rather from the point 

 of view of the ecology of the living birds and 

 their care in captivity, than systematic and 

 anatomical. 



Living specimens of Argus and other rare 

 forms will be brought back together with as 

 complete a collection of skins, and studies for 

 backgrounds. The wide-spread interest in 

 pheasants in this country and the lack of 

 knowledge of their habits in a wild state seem 

 to indicate a field for such a work. 



The expedition will be made, and the mono- 

 graph published under the auspices of the 

 New York Zoological Society. Credit for the 

 inception and the entire financing of the ex- 

 pedition and monograph, is due to Colonel 

 Anthony E. Kuser, of Bernardsville, New 

 Jersey. The success of the undertaking will 

 be altogether due to that gentleman's enthusi- 

 astic love of birds and disinterested gener- 

 osity. 



Mr. Beebe is in charge of the bird collection 

 and the experimental station at Faircourt 

 Aviaries on Colonel Kuser's estate, and the 

 painting and all other monographic work will 

 be carried on at that place. 



MUNICIPAL CHEMISTRY 

 The department of chemistry of the College 

 of the City of New York offers during the 

 spring semester a course of thirty lectures on 

 the chemistry of daily life. These lectures 

 will be open to three classes of hearers : (1) 

 Senior students of the college who have com- 

 plied with the requirements of the department. 

 (2) Employees of the city who have studied 



sufficient chemistry to pursue the laboratory 

 work. (3) A limited number of auditors com- 

 posed of citizens of the city will be admitted 

 on applying for a seating to the director of 

 the department. The lectures will be given 

 at 4 P.M., in the Doremus Lecture Theater, 

 Chemistry Building, 140th Street and Con- 

 vent Avenue, Plaza Entrance. 



The program is as follows: 



February 4 — "Sanitation" (introductory lec- 

 ture), by Professor Charles Baskerville, director 

 of the department of chemistry, College of the 

 City of New York. 



February 9 — " Drinking Water and Disease," 

 by Dr. William P. Mason, professor of chemistry, 

 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 



February 10 — " Sources of Municipal Water 

 Supply," by Dr. William P. Mason. 



February 11 — "The Purification of Polluted 

 Water," by Dr. William P. Mason. 



February 15 — "Milk," by Dr. Thomas C. Dar- 

 lington, commissioner of health. New York City. 



February 18 — " The Purpose, Method and Ex- 

 tent of Food Adulteration," by Dr. Harvey W. 

 Wiley, chief. Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Govern- 

 ment, Washington, D. C. 



February 19 — " The Remedy of Food Adultera- 

 tion and Relation of Chemistry thereto," by Dr. 

 Harvey W. Wiley. 



February 25 — " Food Inspection," by Mr. Bay- 

 ard C. Fuller, chief food inspector. New York City. 



March 1 — " Spoiled Foods," by Mr. Bayard C. 

 Fuller. 



March 4 — " Drugs and their Adulteration," by 

 Dr. Virgil Coblentz, professor of chemistry. Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy, Columbia University. 



March 8 — " Methods for Detecting Adultera- 

 tion," by Dr. Virgil Coblentz. 



March 11 — "Habit Inducing Drugs," by Dr. 

 Virgil Coblentz. 



April 1 — " Automobile Traffic and the Road 

 Problem," by Dr. Allerton S. Cushman, acting 

 director. Bureau of Roads, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



April 2 — " Modern Road Construction," by Dr. 

 Allerton S. Cushman. 



April 5 — " Street Sanitation," by Hon. William 

 H. Edwards, commissioner of street cleaning. New 

 York City. 



April 8 — " Disposal of Ashes and Light Rub- 

 bish," by Mr. Edward D. Very, sanitary engineer, 

 department of street cleaning, and representative 

 of the New York Sanitary Utilization Company. 



