September 13, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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dynamics and circulation of the atmosphere was 

 urged by the Russian meteorologist, Woeirof, 

 at the Meteorological Congress in Paris last 

 year, North and south of the equator, within 

 the trade-wind belts, kites might be employed 

 to determine the height to which the trades ex- 

 tend, and also the direction and strength of the 

 upper winds, concerning which the high clouds, 

 rarely seen in those latitudes, furnish our only 

 information. In order to deduce the velocity 

 of the upper current from the resultant velocity 

 recorded at the kite, it is necessary to ascertain 

 the direction of this latter force, which could 

 be done from the orientation of the kite, 



A. Lawrence Rotch. 

 Blue Hill Meteorological Observa- 

 tory, August 24, 1901. 



QBADUATE COURSES IN SCIENCE. 



At the request of the editor, I have drawn 

 up a list of the graduate courses in pure science 

 offered by several of our leading universities 

 during the academic year 1901-1902. Chicago, 

 Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, 

 Pennsylvania and Yale have been chosen be- 

 cause during the past four years each of these 

 universities has almost invariably conferred 

 from 20 to 40 doctorates of philosophy, whereas 

 no other university in our country has on the 

 average conferred more than eight. 



This information has been collected from the 

 most recently issued announcements of gradu- 

 ate courses to be given by the respective univer- 

 sities during the ensuing academic year, and has 

 been made as complete as the material at com- 

 mand will permit. In some instances the an- 

 nouncements of courses fail to distinguish clearly 

 between primarily undergraduate courses and 

 purely graduate courses, and the compiler 

 has in such cases endeavored to discriminate 

 as carefully as possible. Wherever the infor- 

 mation has been obtainable, there is added in 

 parenthesis to the announcement of each course 

 the number of hours a week for which that 

 course is scheduled. Unless otherwise stated, 

 the common denominator employed is the unit 

 hour per week during the entire academic year. 

 Laboratory hours are distinguished by italics. 

 The graduate courses given at the University of 

 Chicago during the summer quarter of 1901 



have been omitted, as also the graduate courses 

 given at the recent summer sessions of several 

 of the universities. 



ANATOMY. 



( Consult also Zoology. ) 

 Chicago. 



Professor Barker : Seminar ; Advanced work and 

 original research. 



Columbia. 



Professor Huntington : Laboratory courses in ani- 

 mal morphology. 



Harvard. 



Professors Dwight and Dexter : Eesearch course in 

 anatomy. 



Johns Hopkins. 



Professors Mall, Harrison and Bardeen : Advanced 

 work and original investigation (daily). 



Professors Mall, Harrison, Drs. Sudler, Lewis : 

 Systematic instruction in gross human anatomy (af- 

 ternoons). 



Professor Bardeen, Drs. Knower, MacCallum : Sys- 

 tematic instruction in histology, microscopic anatomy, 

 neurology, and embryology (mornings). 



Pennsylvania. 



Professor Jayne : Eesearch in human anatomy. 

 Tale (see Zoology). 



anthropology. 



Chicago. 



Professor Starr: Physical anthropology, lab. (4) ; 

 Laboratory work in anthropology (4) ; Japan (4, 6 

 wks. ) ; Pueblo Indians of New Mexico (4, 1 qr. ). 



Columbia. 



Professor Boas : Ethnography of America (2) ; Sta- 

 tistical study of variation (2); Physical anthropology 

 (2) ; American languages (2). 



Professor Farrand : General introductory course 

 (2); Ethnology, primitive culture (2). 



Professors Boas and Farrand : Eesearch work in 

 physical anthropology, ethnology and North Ameri- 

 can languages (daily). 



Harvard. 



Professor Putnam : American archeology and 

 ethnology (research). 



Drs. Woods, Dixon : General anthropology (3). 



Dr. Dixon : Primitive religions (Ij); Special eth- 

 nology (1^), 



Yale. 

 Professor Sneath : Philosophical anthropology (2). 

 Professor Sumner : (See Sociology and statistics. ) 



astronomy. 

 Chicago. 



Professor Hale: Solar physics (8); Stellar spec- 

 troscopy (8); ditto (4). 



Professor Frost: Astronomical spectroscopy (4); 

 Stellar spectroscopy (4); Celestial photometry (4, 

 Iqr.). 



