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" Not the slightest effort was made, however, to prevent the 

 unchecked cutting of the trees or to secure reforestation. . . . 

 The big trees disappeared centuries ago, so that now one of these 

 is never seen save in the neighborhood of temples, where they 

 are artificially protected ; and even here it takes all the watch and 

 care of the tree-loving priests to prevent their destruction." 



NEWS ITEMS. 



Professor John M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago, and 

 his family were on the steamer Republic during the recent col- 

 lision with the Florida. Professor Coulter lost the manuscript of 

 his proposed new book on gymnosperms. He expects to resume 

 his journey soon ; he had originally planned to attend the Darwin 

 celebrations in England. 



The University of Wisconsin is to build on its campus a build- 

 ing suitable for the United States Forestry Service, thus enabling 

 the Service to concentrate its western laboratories, and carry on 

 a series of investigations on timber, lumbering, the making of 

 wood pulp, and the utilization of present by-products. The 

 government will in return equip the building and provide for 

 lectures to students at the university. 



A series of nine lectures on Charles Darwin and his influence 

 on science are being given Friday afternoons, at 4 p. M., in 309 

 Havemeyer Hall, Columbia University. The first two on " Dar- 

 win's Life and Work " by Henry Fairfield Osborn and "Terres- 

 trial Evolution and Paleontology " by William Berryman Scott, 

 have been given. The others are : " Darwin's Influence on 

 Zoology" by Thomas Hunt Morgan, February 26 ; "Darwin 

 in Relation to Anthropology " by Franz Boas, March 5 ; " Dar- 

 win's Contribution to Psychology " by Edward Lee Thorndike, 

 March 12 ; " Darwin's Influence on Botany" by Daniel Trembly 

 MacDougal, March 19; "Darwinism and Modern Philosophy" 

 by John Dewey, March 26 ; "Cosmic Evolution " (date subject 

 to change) by George Ellery Hale, April 2 ; and "Darwinism in 

 Relation to the Evolution of Human Institutions " by Franklin 

 Henry Giddings, April 16. 



