﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  President 
  

  

  23 
  

  

  Columbia 
  University 
  Lectures 
  

   In 
  cooperation 
  with 
  the 
  Museum 
  

  

  A 
  series 
  of 
  lectures 
  on 
  Light 
  was 
  arranged 
  by 
  Columbia 
  

   University 
  and 
  delivered 
  as 
  follows 
  (Dr. 
  Richard 
  C. 
  Maclaurin, 
  

   lecturer) 
  : 
  

  

  November 
  18. 
  — 
  I. 
  

  

  Object 
  of 
  Course. 
  Newton's 
  Experiments 
  and 
  Contri- 
  

   butions 
  to 
  Optical 
  Theory. 
  

  

  Colour 
  Vision 
  and 
  Colour 
  Photography. 
  

  

  Dispersion 
  and 
  Absorption 
  of 
  Light. 
  Recent 
  Theories. 
  

  

  Spectroscopy. 
  Applications 
  to 
  chemistry 
  and 
  

   astronomy. 
  

  

  Polarisation, 
  with 
  some 
  applications 
  to 
  chemistry 
  and 
  

   molecular 
  physics. 
  

  

  Course 
  continued 
  in 
  January 
  and 
  February, 
  1909. 
  

  

  25.— 
  II. 
  

  

  December 
  2. 
  — 
  III. 
  

  

  9.— 
  IV. 
  

  

  16.— 
  V. 
  

  

  Board 
  of 
  Education 
  Lectures 
  

  

  In 
  cooperation 
  with 
  the 
  Museum 
  

  

  Tuesday 
  evenings 
  

  

  January 
  7. 
  — 
  The 
  Picturesque 
  Rhine 
  Francis 
  L. 
  Strickland 
  

  

  " 
  14. 
  — 
  Historic 
  Castles, 
  Chateaux 
  and 
  Cathedrals 
  of 
  France, 
  

  

  Mrs. 
  Helen 
  Rhodes 
  

  

  " 
  21. 
  — 
  Spain 
  John 
  C. 
  Bowker 
  

  

  28. 
  — 
  Isles 
  of 
  Fantasy 
  (the 
  Azores, 
  Madeira 
  and 
  the 
  Canaries), 
  

  

  John 
  C. 
  Bowker 
  

  

  February 
  4. 
  — 
  France. 
  Her 
  History 
  Written 
  in 
  Stone 
  Louis 
  F. 
  Berry 
  

  

  '* 
  11. 
  — 
  The 
  Highlands 
  and 
  Islands 
  of 
  Scotland. 
  . 
  .Clinton 
  G. 
  Abbott 
  

  

  18.— 
  The 
  Homes 
  of 
  the 
  Poets 
  Sutton 
  Fletcher 
  

  

  " 
  25. 
  — 
  Fighting 
  the 
  Polar 
  Ice 
  (the 
  Story 
  of 
  the 
  Ziegler 
  Polar 
  Expedi- 
  

  

  tion 
  of 
  1903, 
  1904, 
  1905, 
  by 
  its 
  Commander), 
  

  

  Anthony 
  Fiala 
  

   March 
  3. 
  — 
  Our 
  Own 
  City 
  (Modern 
  New 
  York, 
  — 
  Its 
  growth, 
  commercial 
  

  

  interests, 
  social 
  and 
  civic 
  life, 
  and 
  future 
  expansion), 
  

  

  John 
  B. 
  Creighton 
  

   10. 
  — 
  Density 
  and 
  Distribution 
  of 
  Nationalities. 
  (Addresses 
  

   arranged 
  in 
  cooperation 
  with 
  the 
  Conference 
  on 
  the 
  

   Problems 
  of 
  Congestion 
  of 
  Population.) 
  

  

  The 
  Housing 
  Problem 
  Robert 
  W. 
  de 
  Forest 
  

  

  Moral 
  Standards 
  and 
  Family 
  Life 
  in 
  Tenements. 
  . 
  Felix 
  Adler 
  

   Ellis 
  Island, 
  the 
  Door 
  to 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  Robert 
  Watchorn 
  

  

  The 
  School 
  as 
  a 
  Social 
  Center 
  Henry 
  M. 
  Leipziger 
  

  

  17. 
  — 
  Literary 
  and 
  Historic 
  Shrines 
  of 
  Boston 
  and 
  Vicinity, 
  

  

  Isaac 
  F. 
  Smith 
  

  

  " 
  24. 
  — 
  The 
  Mississippi 
  Valley 
  and 
  the 
  Southern 
  States.. 
  S. 
  T. 
  Willis 
  

  

  31. 
  — 
  Through 
  the 
  Canadian 
  Rockies 
  John 
  Jay 
  Lewis 
  

  

  