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Harvard University, on November 9, with a 

 general introduction and survey. The succeed- 

 ing lectures will be as follows : ' The Public 

 School System,' Dr. William DeWitt Hyde, 

 president of Bowdoin College, November 16 ; 

 'Supplementary Educational Agencies,' Dr. 

 George Harris, president of Amherst College, 

 November 23 ; ' The Place of Industrial and 

 Technical Training in Popular Education,' Dr. 

 Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, December 7 ; 

 ' The Place and Function of Science in Popu- 

 lar Education,' Dr. Ira Eemsen, president of 

 Johns Hopkins University, December 14 ; 

 ' Comparison of American and Foreign Systems 

 of Popular Education,' Dr. G. Stanley Hall, 

 president of Clark University, December 21. 



The National Geographic Society has issued 

 its program of lecture courses for the coming 

 season. The popular course consisting of thir- 

 teen lectures will be delivered in the National 

 Rifles Armory, on Friday evenings at 8 o'clock, 

 commencing November 8, and alternating with 

 the Technical Meetings which will be held in 

 the Assembly Hall of Cosmos Club. The fol- 

 lowing dates have been definitely assigned : 



Novembers, 'The Twelfth Census,' Honorable 

 Frederick H. Wines, Assistant Director of the 

 Census. 



November 22, ' The Interior of Borneo,' Professor 

 A. C. Haddon, Cambridge University. 



December 6, 'Peary's Progress toward the Pole,' 

 Herbert L. Bridgman, Vice-President Arctic Club 

 of America. 



December 20, ' The Trans-Siberian Railway,' Hon- 

 orable E. J. Hill. 



January 3, 'The New Mexico,' Honorable John 

 W. Foster, Ex-Secretary of State. 



January 17, ' American Progress and Prospects in 

 the Philippines,' General A. W. Greely, Chief 

 Signal Officer, U. S. A. 



Arrangements have also been made for the 

 following popular lectures, at dates to be an- 

 nounced later. 



' The Appalachian Forest Reserve, ' Honorable 

 James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



' The Warship and its Work,' Rear- Admiral W. 

 S. Schley. 



' Fifty Years of Immigration,' Honorable E. F. 

 McSweeney, Asst. Com. Immigration. 



' Cliff Dwellings of Mesa Verde,' Mrs. John Hays 

 Hammond. 



'Explorations in New York City,' Mr. Jacob A. 

 Riis. 

 ' Finland,' Mr. George Kennan. 



Provisional arrangements have been made for 

 lectures on Pacific Cables, Actual and Pro- 

 posed ; Our Coming Oceanic Canal ; America 

 before the Advent of Man ; Chinese Problems ; 

 Lands and Life in Ocean Depths ; Columbia ; 

 Danish West Indies, and Afghanistan — the 

 Bufifer State. Regular meetings of the Society 

 for the reading of technical papers and discus- 

 sions will be held in the Assembly Hall of 

 Cosmos Club on Friday evenings, at 8 o'clock, 

 and alternating with the popular lectures. 

 The following are announced : 



November 1, 'Symposium on the Growth and Pros- 

 pects of the Society,' President A. Graham Bell 

 followed by Professor Heilprin and others. 



November 15, 'The Lost Boundary of Texas,' 

 Marcus Baker, Cartographer, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



November 29, 'The Best Isthmian Canal Route,' 

 Arthur P. Davis, Chief Hydrographer, Isthmian 

 Canal Commission. 



The Christmas course of six lectures to young 

 people, at the Royal Institution, will this win- 

 ter be delivered by Professor J. A. Fleming, 

 F.R.S. , professor of electrical engineering in 

 University College, London. His subject is 

 ' Waves and Ripples in Water, Air and Ether.' 

 Sir H. Trueman Wood will deliver the next 

 Christmas Juvenile Lectures at the Society of 

 Arts, the subject being ' Photography and its 

 Applications.' 



A STATEMENT concerning the vital statistics 

 of the city of Havana for the month of Sep- 

 tember, 1901, compiled from official reports on 

 file in the division of insular affairs of the War 

 Department and abstracted in the daily papers, 

 shows that the health conditions were decidedly 

 the best attained in any month. The least 

 number of deaths occurring in any previous 

 September since 1889 was 496 in 1899; the 

 greatest number, 2,397, in 1898 ; average, 877. 

 For September, 1901, there were 339 deaths. 

 The least number of deaths occurring in any 

 one preceding month during the last eleven 

 years was in February, 1901, when there were 

 408 deaths. The lowest death rate for Sep- 



