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ing of April 19. Addresses will be made by 

 Hon. S. W. T. Lanham, governor of Texas; 

 Hon. E. B. Cousins, state superintendent of 

 public instruction; Hon. T. T. Connally, of 

 Marlin, representing the alumni; Dr. George 

 P. Garrison, professor of history, representing 

 the faculty; Hon. T. S. Henderson, represent- 

 ing the board of regents, a representative of 

 the student body; President Benjamin Ide 

 Wheeler, of the University of California; 

 President George Edwin MacLean, of the State 

 University of Iowa; and Chancellor James 

 Hampton Kirkland, of Vanderbilt University, 

 following which President Houston will de- 

 liver his inaugural address. 



Dr. Houston is a graduate of South Caro- 

 lina College and Harvard University. From 

 1894-1902 he filled the chair of political sci- 

 ence in the university over which he has now 

 been called to preside; from 1899-1902 he was 

 dean of its faculty, and from 1902-1905 he was 

 president of the Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College of Texas. 



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



At the general meeting of the American 

 Philosophical Society, to be held in memory 

 of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth 

 of Pranklin in Philadelphia from April 17 

 to 20, the following program will be presented : 



Tuesday evening, April 17, at Witherspoon 

 Hall, Walnut Street, below Broad Street. 

 The delegates, invited guests and members of 

 the society are requested to meet in West- 

 minster Hall, fourth floor, at 7:45 p.m. 



Opening Session — S P.M. 



Address by the president, Edgar F. Smith; re- 

 ception of delegates from learned societies and 

 institutions of learning; presentation of addresses; 

 an informal reception will be held in the assembly 

 room, after adjournment. 



Wednesday, April 18, in the HaU of the 

 Society, on Independence Square (104 South 

 Fifth Street). 

 Meetings for the reading of papers on subjects of 



science — 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. 



Pbofessob Wsi. Keith Brooks, of Baltimore: 

 ' Heredity and Variation, Logical and Biological.' 



Pbofessob Thomas C. Chambeblin, of Chicago: 



' On a possible Reversal of the Deep Sea Circula- 

 tion and its Effect on Geological Climates.' 



Eeank Wiggleswoeth Claeke, Sc.D., of Wash- 

 ington :, ' The Statistical Method in Chemical 

 Geology.' 



SiE Geoege Dabwin, K.C.B., F.R.S., of Cam- 

 bridge, England : ' The Figure and Stability of a 

 Liquid Satellite.' (With lantern slides of dia- 

 grams. ) 



Pbofessob William Mobeis Davis, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass : ' Was Lewis Evans or Benjamin 

 Franklin the first to recognize that the Northeast 

 Storms come from the Southwest? 



Pbofessob Feakcis Baeton Gummeee, of 

 Haverford, Pa. : ' Repetition and Variation in 

 Poetic Structure.' 



Pbofessob Paul Haupt, of Baltimore, Md. : 

 ' The Herodotean Prototype of Esther and 

 Sheherazade.' 



Peesident David Staeb JoBDAisr, of Stanford 

 University, Cal.: (Title to be announced later.) 



Pbofessob Albert A. Michelson, of Chicago: 

 (Title to be announced.) 



Pbofessob Edwabd C. Pickeeing, of Cambridge, 

 Mass. : ' An International Southern Observatory.' 



Pbofessob Josiah Rotce, of Cambridge, Mass.: 

 ' The Present Position of the Problem concerning 

 the First Principles of Scientific Theory.' 



Pbofessob William B. Scott, of Princeton: 

 ' Notes on a Collection of Fossil Mammals from 

 Natal.' 



Peofessor Hugo de Veies, of Amsterdam, Hol- 

 land: Elementary Species in Agriculture.' 

 Executive Session — 12:30 P.M. 



Luncheon will be served in the hall at one 

 o'clock. 

 Evening Session — 8 P.M., at Witherspoon Hall, 



Walnut Street below Broad Street. 



addresses. 



Pbofessob Edwabd L. Nichols, Ph.D., of 

 Ithaca : ' Franklin's Researches in Electricity.' 



Pbofessob Ebnest Rutheefoed, F.R.S., of 

 Montreal : ' The Modern Theories of Electricity 

 and their Relation to the Frankliniau Theory.' 



Thursday, April 19, at the American Acad- 

 emy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets, 

 11 a.m. 

 Conferring of honorary degrees by the University 



of Pennsylvania. 



Oration by the Hon. Hampton L. Caeson, 

 Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



