December 8, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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PEOGRAM OF MEETINGS. 



The Popular Course. 

 November 10. — ' A Review of the Russo-Japa- 

 nese War — from the Sinking of the Variag to the 

 Signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth,' by Mr. 

 Robert L. Dunn, special con-espondent of Collier's 

 Weekly in the far east. 



November 24. — ' The Panama Canal,' by Hon. 

 James R. Mann, member of congress from Illinois. 

 November 25. — ' ]\Iy Captivity in Morocco,' by 

 Mr. Ion Perdicaris. 



December 8. — ' What Shall be Done with the 

 Yosemite Valley ? ' by Mr. William E. Curtis, illus- 

 trated. The Yosemite Valley has been receded to 

 the federal government by act of the California 

 legislature, but has not yet been formally ac- 

 cepted by congress. 



December 21. — 'A Military Observer in Man- 

 churia,' by Major Joseph Kuhn, U.S.A., illustrated. 

 December 22. — 'An Attempt at an Interpreta- 

 tion of Japanese Character,' by Hon. Eki Hioki, 

 first secretary of the Japanese legation. 



January 5. — ' Russia and the Russian People,' 

 by Mr. Melville E. Stone, general manager of the 

 Associated Press. It Avill be remembered that it 

 was Mr. Stone who two years ago persuaded the 

 Czar Nichols to grant freedom from the censor to 

 foreign correspondence from St. Petersburg. 



January 9. — ' The Ziegler Polar Expedition of 

 1903-1905,' by Messrs. W. S. Champ, Anthony 

 Fiala and W. J. Peters. 



January 19. — ' Railway Rates,' by Hon. Martin 

 A. Knapp, president of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission. 



January 31. — ' China,' by Hon. Charles Denby, 

 of the state department, and for many years resi- 

 dent in China. 



February 2. — ' Austria Hungary,' by Edwin A. 

 Grosvenor, LL.D., professor of international law 

 in Amherst College, author of ' Constantinople,' 

 ' Contemporary History,' etc. 



February 10. — ' A Flamingo City, Bird Life in 

 the Bahamas,' by Dr. Frank M. Chapman, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



February 16. — 'Africa from Sea to Center,' by 

 Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman, illustrated. Africa in 

 transition to-day challenges the attention of the 

 world. Few intelligent Americans know to what 

 extent its possibilities have been developed since 

 Livingstone's day, a development that in rapidity 

 promises to exceed that of North America. 



February 23. — ' The Personal Washington,' by 

 Mr. W. W. Ellsworth, of the Century Company, 

 illustrated. This is not a lecture in the ordinary 

 sense of the word, but it is an exhibition, through 



the medium of the stereopticon, of the greatest 

 collection of prints, manuscripts and letters refer- 

 ring to the personal side of Washington ever 

 brought together. 



March 2. — ' Our Immigrants : Where They Come 

 from, What They Are and What They Do After 

 They Get Here,' by Hon. F. P. Sargent, U. S. 

 commissioner general of immigration, illustrated. 



March 16. — ' Oriental Markets and Market 

 Places,' by Hon. 0. P. Austin, chief U. S. Bureau 

 of Statistics, illustrated. 



March 30. — It is hoped that official business 

 will permit the secretary of the navj^. Honorable 

 Charles J. Bonaparte, to address the society on 

 ' The American Navy.' 



April 13. — ' The Regeneration of Korea by 

 Japan,' by Mr. George Kennan, illustrated. 



Scientific Meetings. 



November 17. — 'Morocco,' by Mr. Ion Perdicaris. 



November 22. — ' Sixteen Years in China,' by 

 Rev. Charles A. Killie, F.R.G.S., official photog- 

 rapher of the siege of Peking, illustrated. 



November 29. — ' The Panama Canal,' by Mr. 

 Bunau-Varilla. 



December 1. — ' The Development of the Mineral 

 Resources of Alaska, with particular reference to 

 the Fairbanks and Nome Regions,' by Mr. Alfred 

 H. Brooks, chief of the Alaskan Division U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



December 15. — ' Surveying our Coasts and Har- 

 bors,' by Hon. 0. H. Tittmann, superintendent 

 U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



December 29. — ' Problems for Geographical Re- 

 search,' by Gen. A. W. Greely, U.S.A. 'The 

 Binding PoAver of Road Material,' by Mr. A. S. 

 Cushman. 



January 12. — Annual meeting. Reports and 

 elections. ' Progress in the Reclamation of the 

 West,' by Mr. F. H. Newell, chief engineer reclama- 

 tion service. 



-January 26. — ' The Carnegie Institution,' by 

 President R. S. W^oodward. 



Febfuary 9. — ' The Introduction of Foreign 

 Plants,' by Mr. David G. Fairchild, agricultural 

 explorer, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



February 24. — ' Hunting with the Camera,' by 

 Hon. George Shiras, member of congress from 

 third district, Pennsylvania. 



March 9. — ' The United States Bureau of the 

 Census,' by Hon. S. N. D. North, director. 



March 23.—' The Death Valley,' by Mr. Robert 

 II. Chapman, U. S. Geological Survey. 



April 6.— 'The Total Eclipse of the Sun, July, 

 1905, as Observed in Spain,' by Rear Admiral 



