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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. la 



The addresses will be delivered in the 

 Lecture Hall of U. S. National Museum, 

 4:20 to 5:30 p. m., on the dates specified. 

 Citizens of Washington and their friends are 

 cordiallj^ invited to attend. 



The anthropologic course will comprise: 

 ( 1 ) an exposition of the elements of anthro- 

 pology \>y the President of the Anthropo- 

 logical Society, and (2) somewhat more de- 

 tailed expositions of the dififerent branches 

 of the science of man by representatives of 

 the four sections of the Society. The geo- 

 logic course, which is provisionally ar- 

 ranged, will comprise an exposition of the 

 growth of North America from the most 

 ancient geologic period to the present time, 

 illustrated by maps showing various stages 

 in continental development. 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



February 23. — What is the Science of Demol- 

 ogy f Major J. W. Powell. 



March 2. — Human Growth : De. Franz Boas. 



March 9. — The Founding of Sociology : Vice- 

 President Lester F. Ward. 



March 16. — The Progress of the Scientific 

 Method : Vice-President W J McGee. 



March 23. — The Gh-owth of Arts: Vice-Presi- 

 dent Frank Hamilton Gushing. 



geology. 

 March ZQ.—The Continent in Algonkian Time : 



Prof. C. E. Van Hise. 

 April 6. — The Continent in Cambrian and 



Silurian Time: Hon. Charles D. Wal- 



COTT. 



April 13. — The Continent in Devonian Time: 

 Marius R. Campbell. 



April 20. — The Continent in Cretaceous and 

 Tertiary Time: G. K. Gilbert. 



April 27. — The Continent in Glacial and Re- 

 cent Time: Prop. William B. Clark. 



A PROPOSED NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. 



Representative Hainer, of Nebraska, 

 has introduced a bill to establish the Uni- 

 versity of America, in which each State,Ter- 



ritorjr and Congressional District shall be en- 

 titled to an equal proportionate number of 

 students, chosen by means of open competi- 

 tive examinations. Instruction in all the 

 branches of all departments of knowledge is 

 to be given, and facilities furnished for scien- 

 tific and literarj' research and investigation. 

 The government of the University is to be 

 vested in a board of twenty regents. — Even- 

 ing Post. 



GENERAL. 



John Murray has published the report 

 of the Oxford meeting of the British As- 

 sociation edited by the Assistant Secre- 

 tary, Mr. G. Griffith. In addition to the 

 address of the President, Lord Salisbui-y, 

 and those of the Vice-Presidents of the 

 several sections, there are printed in full 

 eight papers by special invitation of the 

 general committee, among them Professor 

 Langley's On Recent Researches in the Infra 

 Red Spectrum. The other papers are given 

 in abstract or by title onlJ^ Four hundred 

 pages, half the volume, are taken up by the 

 reports of committees and investigators, 

 previously appointed. 



Dr. Hermann Weber, a Fellow of the 

 College of Physicians in London, gave last 

 December £2, .500 for the purpose of found- 

 ing a prize to be given triennially for the 

 best essay on tubercular consumption. The 

 competition is open to writers in all coun- 

 tries. 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences has 

 received by the will of Josef Treitel 800,- 

 000 florins to be used for the advancement 

 of astronomy. 



Professor Weldon is announced to dis- 

 cuss Variation in Animals and Plants at the 

 second of the special meetings of the Royal 

 Society. 



M. GuiGNARD has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Section of Botanj^ of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, succeeding M. de 

 Chartre. 



