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The fourth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course was delivered at the New York Acad- 

 emy of Medicine building on Saturday even- 

 ing, January 11, 1908, by Professor Ernest H. 

 Starling, of the University of London. Sub- 

 ject : " The Chemical Control of the Body." 



The Lees and Eaper memorial lecture, 1908, 

 will be delivered in the Town Hall, Oxford, 

 by Mr. William McAdam Eccles, M.S., 

 F.R.C.S., on February 4. Subject: "The 

 Relation of Alcohol to Physical Deterioration 

 and National Efficiency." 



At the request of the New York Physics 

 Club, Professors Crocker and Sever and Mr. 

 Arendt, of the department of electrical engi- 

 neering of Columbia University, will give to 

 its members a series of demonstrations on 

 electrical engineering, so far as it bears upon 

 high-school physics. These lectures will be 

 free and will be given in the engineering build- 

 ing of Columbia University on Tuesday after- 

 noons from 4 to 5 :15 o'clock, February 4 to 

 March 24, inclusive. It is expected that they 

 win be ojien to all teachers of secondary 

 schools as well as to members of the New 

 York Physics Club. 



The Western Reserve University lecture 

 course now being announced includes lectures 

 upon political, sociological, medical and scien- 

 tific subjects. Dr. James Elbert Cutler, 

 formerly of the University of Michigan, and 

 now associate professor of sociology upon the 

 newly established Selah Chamberlain Founda- 

 tion at Western Reserve, opened the course 

 Tuesday evening, January 14, with his lecture, 

 " Lynching as an American Practise." Pro- 

 fessor Cutler has made a special study of 

 lynching, and has contributed articles upon 

 the subject to both northern and southern 

 publications. Other lectures of the course are 

 to include " The Results of the Anti-Tuber- 

 culosis Movement," by Dr. John H. Lowman, 

 of Western Reserve Medical College, date to 

 be announced later : " The More Recent De- 

 velopments in Astronomy," by President 

 Charles Sumner Howe, of the Case School of 

 Applied Science, March 3, and "Municipal 

 Home Rule : the Relation of the City and the 

 State," by Dr. Augustus Raymond Hatton, 



of Western Reserve University, March lY. Dr. 

 Hatton is associate professor of political sci- 

 ence upon the M. A. Hanna Foundation. The 

 lectures are free and are to be given in the 

 physical laboratory on the Adelbert College 

 Campus. 



The Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity announces its forty-second annual 

 Sheffield lecture course, to begin January lY, 

 1908. Following is a list of the lecturers and 

 their subjects, with the dates : 



January 17 — " Mars as seen from the Andes," 

 by Professor David Todd. 



January 24 — " Northern Mexico: its Deserts, 

 Plateaus and Canyons," by Dr. Edmund Otis 

 Hovey. 



January 31 — " Nature Study in relation to pro- 

 tecting and propagating American Game Birds," 

 by Professor Clifton F. Hodge. 



February 7 — " Personal Experiences in Alaska 

 and the Chilkoot Pass," by Mr. Alfred H. Dunham, 



February 14 — " Modem Long-span Bridges, 

 with special reference to the Quebec Disaster," 

 by Mr. Frank W. Skinner, C.E. 



February 21 — "Persian Travels," by Dr. Wil- 

 liam Lord Smith. 



February 28 — " Heredity in Man and the Lower 

 Animals," by Dr. Charles B. Davenport. 



March 6 — " Rare Earth Industries," by Mr. 

 Harlan S. Miner. 



March 13 — " Silk, Natural and Artificial," by 

 Professor Charles F. Chandler. 



March 20 — " History and Habits of the Fur 

 Seal," by Mr. Frederic A. Lucas. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination on April 1, 1908, 

 to fill several vacancies in the position of 

 micro-analyst (either sex), at $1,500 per 

 annum, and at lower salaries, depending upon 

 the qualifications shown, in the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, Department of Agriculture. 



Mb. Englebright has introduced a biU in 

 the House of Representatives to establish in 

 the Department of the Interior a Bureau of 

 Mines. The bill has been referred to the 

 committee on mines and mining. 



A cx)PY of a decree issued by the provisional 

 governor of Cuba has been transmitted by the 

 Department of State to the Department of 

 Commerce and Labor. It names a commis- 

 sion of fourteen members, headed by Rafael 



