38 Report of the President. 



Columbia University Course. 



mining and minerals. 



Dr. David T. Day, of the United States Geological Survey. 



January 5.- — The Mining Outlook of the Opening Century. 



" 12. — The World's Mineral Wealth, as Shown at the Paris Ex- 

 position. 



" 19. — The Petroleum Industry of the United States. 



" 26.— The Mineral Resources of China, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and 

 the Philippines. 



TREES, PARKS AND GARDENS. 



February 2. — Trees and Plants in the Gardens of the Renaissance. 



Prof. A. D. F. Hamlin 



" 9. — The Life of a Tree and the Life of a Forest C. P. Warren 



" 16. — How to Distinguish the Trees C. P. Warren 



" 23. — Trees and Shrubs for Shade and Ornament in Landscape 



Gardening Samuel Parsons, Jr. 



ASTRONOMY. 



Prof. J. K. Rees, of Columbia University. 



March 2. — The Sun: A Study of Its Surface and Surroundings. 



" 9. — The Inferior Planets: Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars. 

 " 16. — The Superior Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. 

 " 23. — The Use of the Photographic Telescope in Studying the Moon, 



Minor Planets, Stars and Nebulae. 

 " 30. — Tycho Brahe: The Great Danish Astronomer of the End of the 

 1 6th Century. 



The Linn^an Society of New York City. 



February 21. — The Sea Gardens of Bermuda. 



Prof. C. L. Bristol, of New York University 



" 28. — A Naturalist on the Coast of Alaska Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 



Chief of the Biological Survey, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 



City Board of Education Free Lectures. 



Winter and Spring Courses. 



January 8.- — -Among the Indians of Southern California. 



G. Wharton James 

 15. — Among the Basket-Making Indians of the Southwest. 



G. Wharton James 

 22. — Across the Grand Canyon to Point Sublime . G. Wharton James 



29. — The Bedouins of the Painted Desert G. Wharton James 



February 5. — The Navahos of Arizona and New Mexico. .G. Wharton James 



" 12. — The Isthmian Canal Prof. Emory R. Johnson 



19. — The Antarctic: The Cruise of the "Belgica". . H. L. Bridgman 

 26. — Brazil and Guiana Mrs. Florence J. Stoddard 



