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7. Should the triistees of all institutions, 

 public and private alike, be required by law to 

 file full financial statements with some public 

 authority and piiblish the same? 



8. Should the alumni have some formally 

 recognized place in the scheme of government 

 of the institution ? If so, what ? 



9. Should the student body have formal 

 r-ecognition in the scheme of government by 

 being privileged to appoint representatives to 

 any disciplinary or administrative body? 



10. Is it possible to devise uniform methods 

 of boold-vceping and statistics, so as to make 

 comparisons more valuable? 



It will be seen that these are all vital ques- 

 tions, indicating difficulties which every board 

 of trustees has to meet. It is believed that 

 every university or college trustee will derive 

 great aid in the performance of his duties by 

 attending this conference and exchanging 

 views on these important topics. 



ITrbana, in which the University of Illinois 

 is located, forms with its adjoining city. 

 Champaign, a single community of about 

 twenty thousand inhabitants. It is situated 

 128 miles due south of Chicago, at the junction 

 of three great railway systems, the Illinois 

 Central, the Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland 

 and St. Louis (Big Four), and the Wabash 

 railways, and is thus easy of access from every 

 direction. 



Persons desiring to attend this conference 

 should notify the undersigned as soon as pos- 

 sible. Suggestions as to other desirable 

 topics for discussion will be thankfully re- 

 ceived. Address : 



David Kinley, 



Dean of the College of Literature and 

 Arts, University of Illinois, 



Urhana, Illinois. 



TEE HARVEY SOCIETY. 

 The Harvey Society, described by its con- 

 stitution -as ' a society for the diffusion of the 

 knowledge of the medical sciences,' offers the 

 following course of lectures which are to be 

 given under the patronage of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine: 



FIRST COURSE OF HARVEY SOCIETY LECTURES, 



1905-1906. 



October 7, Professor Hans Meyer, ' Die Theorie 

 der Narcose ' (in German). 



October 14, Professor Carl von Noorden, 

 ' Modern Problems of Metabolism.' 



NoA-ember 4, Professor F. G. Novy, ' Trypan- 

 osomes.' 



November 18, Dr. P. A. Levene, 'Autolysis.' 



January 20, Professor W. H. Park, ' A Critical 

 Study of Serum Therapy.' 



January 27, Professor Lewellys F. Barker, ' The 

 Neurones.' 



February 2, Professor F. S. Lee, ' Fatigue.' 



February 9, Professor L. B. Mendel, ' The For- 

 mation of Uric Acid.' 



February 16, Professor T. H. Morgan, ' The Ex- 

 tent and Limitations of the Power to Regenerate 

 in Man and other Vertebrates.' 



February 23, Professor Charles S. Minot, ' On 

 the Nature and Cause of Old Age.' 



March 2, Professor J. C. Webster, ' Modern 

 Views regarding Placentation.' 



March 9, Professor Theobald Smith, ' Some 

 Phases of Tuberculosis.' 



March 16, Professor W. H. Howell, ' The Cause 

 of the Heart Beat.' 



The lectures will be held in the Academy of 

 Medicine at half past eight on the above 

 evenings during the winter. In the Sorbonne 

 at Paris courses of lectures by distinguished 

 Frenchmen and men of other lands are given 

 with the object of bringing science before 

 those engaged in practise and art of various 

 pursuits. The aim of the Harvey Society is 

 similar in character. The Harvey Society 

 cordially invites all interested to attend this 

 course. 



SCIENTIFIG N0TE8 AND NEWS. 



Dr. W J McGee, U. S. Commissioner of 

 the International Archeological and Ethnolog- 

 ical Commission, lately chief of the depart- 

 ment of anthropology and ethnology of the 

 St. Louis Exposition and ethnologist in charge 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, has 

 been appointed managing director of the St. 

 Louis Public Museum. 



H. Foster Bain, Ph.D. (Chicago), geologist 

 of the IT. S. Geological Survey and formerly 

 assistant state geologist of Iowa, has been ap- 

 pointed state geologist of Illinois. 



