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of six lectures on " Aspects of the Pragmatic 

 Movement of Modern Philosophy." 



Professor E. A. Daly, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, gave five lectures to 

 advanced students in the Geological Depart- 

 ment of the University of Wisconsin in Jan- 

 uary on the subject of Igneous Rocks. 



Professor Carl Eunge, of Gottingen, 

 Kaiser Wilhelm professor at Columbia Uni- 

 versity during the present year, is now giving 

 lectures at several American universities. At 

 the University of Michigan he has given the 

 following course: 



February 4 — " Methods of Graphical Calcula- 

 tion." 



February 5 — " The Graphical Eepresentation of 

 Functions " ( first lecture ) . 



February 7 — " The Graphical Eepresentation of 

 Functions" (second lecture). 



February 8 — " Graphical Integration and Dif- 

 ferentiation." 



February 10 — " Diiferential Equations Treated 

 Graphically." 



A STATUE of the late Morris K. Jesup, for 

 many years president of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, was unveiled in the 

 foyer of the museum on February 9. The 

 statue, which is of Carrara marble and repre- 

 sents Mr. Jesup seated, is the work of Mr. 

 William Couper. Addresses at the unveiling 

 were made by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, who 

 has succeeded Mr. Jesup as president of the 

 museum, and Mr. Joseph H. Choate, one of the 

 founders of the museum. 



The three great meteorites, brought by 

 Commander Peary from the Arctic regions 

 and for some time exhibited in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, have been pur- 

 chased and given to the museum by Mrs. 

 Morris K. Jesup. 



The firm of Dr. F. Krantz, of the Ehein- 

 isches Mineralien — Contor, Bonn, Germany, 

 has requested Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, dean of 

 the School of Mines of the University of 

 Pittsburgh, to assist the firm in preparing a 

 collection of crystal models to accompany Dr. 

 Wadsworth's recently published laboratory 

 " Manual of Crystallography." 



A SERIES of lantern slides especially de- 



signed for use by teachers of physical geog- 

 raphy has been prepared by Professor D. W. 

 Johnson, of Harvard University. The slides 

 are photographic and contour representations 

 of the same land form on the same slide, the 

 map being so oriented that its bottom is the 

 foreground of the photograph. Many of the 

 views reproduced are from Professor John- 

 son's own negatives; the rest are from photo- 

 graphs in the Garden Collection of Photo- 

 graphs at Harvard University. 



The Liverpool Geological Society, as we 

 learn from Nature, celebrated the jubilee of its 

 first meeting on January 10. The society en- 

 tertained at dinner the Lord Mayor and rep- 

 resentatives of the university, of kindred 

 societies in the city and of the Torkshire 

 Geological Society and the North Stafford- 

 shire Field Club. The toast of the university 

 elicited expressions of regret at the absence of 

 a chair of geology in the university. The first 

 meeting of the society having been held on 

 January 11, 1860, an open meeting was held 

 on January 11, and was largely attended. Mr. 

 W. Hewitt, the president, was in the chair, 

 and the minutes of the first meeting having 

 been read, he remarked that that meeting was 

 held in a room in the house of Mr. G. H. 

 Morton, the first honorary secretary of the 

 society. He also read a letter from Mr. H. 

 Duckworth, the first president, congratulating 

 the society and regretting that his age pre- 

 vented his being present. Professor J. W. 

 Judd, C.B., F.E.S., an honorary member of 

 the society, then delivered an address on " The 

 Triumph of Evolution: a Eetrospeet of Fifty 

 Years," remarking that the foundation of the 

 society was nearly coincident with the appear- 

 ance of Darwin's " Origin of Species." 



Twenty lectures by non-resident lecturers 

 have been arranged by the mechanical engi- 

 neering department of Columbia University. 

 Charles B. Going, managing editor of the 

 Engineering Magazine, will give the first six 

 on February 10, 12, lY, 19, 24 and 26, his sub- 

 ject being " The Province of Works Manage- 

 ment." Charles U. Carpenter, president of 

 the Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co., will lec- 

 ture on March 5, 10, 12 and 17, on "The 

 Functions of Organization, its Purposes, 



