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country. In case the dues are thus sent to 

 Washington for transmission to Geneva, a 

 check for $20 for donating members, $4 for 

 nominal members, and $2.50 for associate 

 members should be sent, to cover dues, ex- 

 change and postage. To those preferring to 

 send directly, Dr. Wiley will send the blank 

 furnished by the congress, on application. It 

 is particularly desired that as many as are 

 able submit definitions for food and drug 

 products, as it is profitable to accumulate as 

 much material as possible, to establish a broad 

 basis for decisions. 



Papers on food and drug products are also 

 solicited, and may be sent directly to the 

 appropriate sections or forwarded to Dr. Wiley 

 for transmittal. It is hoped that a large 

 membership in the congress may be secured 

 from the United States. 



RECENT REFERENCES TO LAMARCK 

 The increased interest in the work of La- 

 marck is nowhere better evinced than in the 

 number of Lamarckian items which one finds in 

 current journals. In the Revue Scierdifique 

 (December, 1907) there appears an article on 

 his early career, in La Nature (December 21, 

 1907) a careful study of his paternal family, 

 in the Journal des Savants on some of his 

 unpublished writings. And Dr. C. R. East- 

 man, of Harvard, has now brought to light a 

 manuscript of Lamarck which has in part at 

 least remained unpublished. This document 

 was obtained (probably purchased in Paris) 

 by Professor Alexander Agassiz and was by 

 him presented (1896) to the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology. It consists of a series of 

 essays, two psychological (" Systeme de Gall," 

 40 pp., " Idee et Imagination," 33 pp.), one 

 purely philosophical (" Appergu analytique 

 des connaissances humaines, avec des divisions 

 et des reflexions tendant a montrer leur degre 

 de certitude, leur source, leur branches prin- 

 cipales," 12 pp.) and three zoological (" Ques- 

 tions zoologiques dont la solution est de pre- 

 miere importance," 4 pp., " Discussion sur les 

 caracteres essentiels des animaux et sur la 

 definition qui pent les embrasser generale- 

 ment," 12 pp., " Histoire naturelle " (scope 

 of), 4 pp.). Following these are numerous 



drawings, doubtless from the hand of Lamarck, 

 some in crude outline, as his " monads," 

 some in color, of which one is a beautifully 

 executed figure of a holothurian. At the in- 

 stance of Dr. Eastman the manuscript has 

 recently been placed in the hands of Professor 

 Bashford Dean, of Columbia University, for 

 detailed examination and publication. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, 

 will deliver six lectures at Northwestern Uni- 

 versity on the Norman W. Harris Eoundation. 

 His general subject will be University Admin- 

 istration, and the dates and titles of the sepa- 

 rate lectures as follows : Lecture I., " The 

 Trustees." Thursday evening, April 9, at 8 

 o'clock. Lecture II., " An Inspecting and 

 Concurring body — Alumni Influence." Fri- 

 day evening, April 10, at 8 o'clock. Lecture 

 IIL, "The University Faculty." Saturday 

 morning, April 11, at 10 o'clock. Lecture IV., 

 " The Elective System — Academic Distinc- 

 tions." Saturday evening, April 11, at 8 

 o'clock. Lecture V., " Methods of Instruc- 

 tion — Social Organization." Monday even- 

 ing, April 13, at 8 o'clock. Lecture VI., " Ad- 

 ministration — The University President." 

 Tuesday evening, April 14, at 8 o'clock. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and Professor A. P. Brigham, of Col- 

 gate University, will give several lectures on 

 '■' The Geography of North America " in the 

 School of Geography to be held at Oxford 

 University from August 10 to 28. 



Sir Oliver Lodge's presidential address to 

 the Faraday Society, to be given on March 24, 

 will have as its subject " Some Aspects of the 

 Work of Lord Kelvin." 



A BANQUET has been tendered to Dr. Robert 

 Koch by the profession in Berlin. A portrait 

 medallion was presented him, the flrst of a 

 series of medallions of prominent living Ger- 

 man physicians. 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the council of the Royal Society 

 to be recommended for election as fellows : Mr. 

 W. Barlow, the Earl of Berkeley, Mr. Dugald 



