THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 



Columbia University in the City of New York 



LECTURES ON SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND ART 



A SERIES of twenty-one lectures descriptive in non-technical 

 language of the achievements in Science, Philosophy, and 

 Art, and indicating the present status of these subjects as concepts 

 of human knowledge, were delivered at Columbia University, during 

 the academic year 1907-1908, by various professors chosen to repre- 

 sent the several departments of instruction. 



MATHEMATICS By CASSIUS JACKSON KEYSER, Adrain Professor of 

 Mathematics. 



PHYSICS By ERNEST Fox NICHOLS, Professor of Experimental Physics. 



ASTRONOMY By HAROLD JACOBY, Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy. 



GEOLOGY By JAMES FURMAN KEMP, Professor of Geology. 



BIOLOGY By EDMUND B. WILSON, Professor of Zoology. 



PHYSIOLOGY By FREDERIC S. LEE, Professor of Physiology. 



BOTANY By HERBERT MAULE RICHARDS, Professor of Botany. 



ZOOLOGY By HENRY E. CRAMPTON, Professor of Zoology. 



ANTHROPOLOGY By FRANZ BOAS, Professor of Anthropology. 



ARCHAEOLOGY By JAMES RJGNALL WHEELER, Professor of Greek Ar- 

 chaeology and Art. 



HISTORY By JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON, Professor of History. 



ECONOMICS By HENRY ROGERS SEAGER, Professor of Political Economy. 



POLITICS By CHARLES A. BEARD, Adjunct Professor of Politics. 



JURISPRUDENCE By MUNROE SMITH, Professor of Roman Law and 

 Comparative Jurisprudence. 



SOCIOLOGY By FRANKLIN HENRY GIDDINGS, Professor of Sociology. 



PHILOSOPHY By NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, President of the University. 



PSYCHOLOGY By ROBERT S. WOODWORTH, Adjunct Professor of Psy- 

 chology. 



METAPHYSICS By FREDERICK J. E. WOODBRIDGE, Johnsonian Professor 

 of Philosophy. 



ETHICS By JOHN DEWEY, Professor of Philosophy. 



PHILOLOGY By A. V. W. JACKSON, Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages. 



LITERATURE By HARRY THURSTON PECK, Anthon Professor of the Latin 

 Language and Literature. 



These lectures are published by the Columbia University Press sep- 

 arately in pamphlet form, at the uniform price of twenty-five cents, 

 by mail twenty-eight cents. Orders will be taken for the separate 

 pamphlets, or for the whole series. Also to be had in one volume, 

 blue cloth, at $5.00 net; by mail, $5.27. 



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