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lems near Great Cities, ' ' Professor E. L. Watts, 

 Pennsylvania State College of Agriculture. 



February 28 — "Peach Orchards," Professor M. 

 A. Blake, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



March 6 — ' ' Planting an Orchard, ' ' Dr. U. P. 

 Hendriek, Agricultural Experiment Station, Ge 

 neva, N. Y. 



March 13 — "Orchard Management — with spe 

 cial reference to Fertilization and Spraying," Dr, 

 J. P. Stewart, Pennsylvania State College. 



March 20 — ' ' Problems in Eastern Farming. ' 

 Lecturer announced later. 



March 27 — "Practical Considerations in Farm 

 Management," Dr. W. J. Spillman, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. 



The following lectures on zoological sub- 

 jects will be given at Trinity College during 

 tbe course of this year. 



December 15 — Raymond C. Osburn, acting di- 

 rector of the New York Aquarium and associate 

 professor of zoology, Columbia: Pishes. 



January — Frederic S. Lee, director of the de- 

 partment of physiology. College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, New York: Some Aspects of Muscle 

 Action. 



February — George H. Parker, professor of zool- 

 ogy, Harvard: Some Phases of the Nervous Sys- 

 tem. 



March — Professor Henry A. Perkins, Trinity: 

 The Brownian Movement of TJltramicroscopic Par- 

 ticles. 



May — Dr. David Dwight Whitney, of Wesleyan: 

 Some Problems in Sex. 



April^ — Irving A. Field, United States Bureau 

 of Fisheries: Utilization of hitherto unused Fishes 

 as Food. 



The faculty of Medicine of Harvard Uni- 

 versity offers a course of free public lectures, 

 to be given at the Medical School, Longvrood 

 Avenue, Boston, on Sunday afternoons, be- 

 ginning January Y, and ending May 5, 1912. 

 The lectures will begin at four o'clock and the 

 doors will be closed at five minutes past the 

 hour. 



January 7 — Dr. F. C. Shattuck: Catching Cold, 

 etc. 



January 14 — Dr. John Lovett Morse: Feeding 

 of Infants. 



January 21 — Dr. Myles Standish: The Care of 

 the Eyes. 



January 28 — Dr. S. B. Wolbach: A Medical 

 Expedition to West Africa. 



February 4 — Dr. Abner Post: SyphUitie He- 

 redity. 



February 11— Dr. E. E. Southard: The Mental 

 Life in the Light of Modern Efforts to Map the 

 Brain. 



February 18 — Dr. Charles S. Minot: The Human 

 Face. 



February 25— Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait: The Ef- 

 fect of Posture upon the General Efi&ciency of the 

 Human Being. 



March 3— Dr. C. P. Putnam: The Care and 

 Training of Children. 



March 10 — Dr. Maurice H. Eichardson: Con- 

 servation, not Destruction, the Chief Object of 

 Surgical Endeavor. 



March 17 — Dr. Charles J. White: Possibilities 

 of Infection of the Skin in Public Places. 



March 24 — Dr. E. H. Bradford: Some Causes of 

 Backache. 



March 31 — Dr. George Burgess Magrath: The 

 Massachusetts System of Medico-legal Inquiry. 



April 7 — Dr. Charles M. Green: Certain Topics 

 in the Hygiene of Women. (To women only.) 



April 14— Dr. E. H. Nichols: The Sexual In- 

 stinct — Its Abuse and Control. (To men only.) 



April 21 — Dr. John Bapst Blake: Fractures, 

 Sprains and Minor Injuries: Diagnosis and Treat- 

 ment. (Illustrated by lantern slides.) 



April 28 — Dr. George T. Tuttle: Some Forms 

 of Mental Disease and the Methods now employed 

 in their Treatment. 



May 5 — Dr. C. J. Blake: The Prevention of 

 Unnecessary Noise. 



The home universities committee of the 

 Congress of the Universities of the British 

 Empire, consisting of the vice-chancellors of 

 the universities of the United Kingdom and 

 other representatives, have prepared the pro- 

 gram of subjects for discussion at the con- 

 gress in July, 1912. The meetings of the con- 

 gress vpill be held on July 2, 3, 4 and 5, on 

 four mornings and two afternoons. There 

 will be, in addition, a business meeting. The 

 subjects for discussion fall under two heads, 

 and are as follows: 



I. Universities in their relation to one another : 

 1. Conditions of entrance to universities and the 



possibility of equivalence and mutual recognition 



of entrance tests to degree courses. 



