960 The American Naturalist. [November, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
A course of eight free lectures mainly upon Science and Travel has 
been arranged by the Field Columbian Museum for Saturday afternoons 
in October and November at the usual hour, 3 o’clock. Most of these 
lectures will be illustrated by steropticon views. Subjects, Dates and 
Lecturers: Oct. 3— Archeological Explorations in Peru,” Dr. G. A. 
Dorsey, Assistant Curator of Anthropology, Field Columbian Museum. 
Oct. 10.—* A Trip to Popocatapetal and Ixtaccihuatl,” Prof. O. O. 
Farrington, Curator of Geology, Field Columbian Museum. Oct. 17. 
—“ San Domingo,” Mr. G. K. Cherrie, Assistant Curator of Ornithol- 
ogy, Field Columbian Museum. Oct. 24.—“ Egypt and what we know 
of her,” Dr. J. H. Breasted, Instruction in Egyptology and Semitics, 
University of Chicago. Oct. 31.—“ The Petroleum Indastry,” Dr. D. 
T. Day, Chief of Division of Mineral Resources, U. S. Geological 
Survey. Nov. 7—* Alaska and its Inhabitants,” Prof. George L. 
Collie, Beloit College, Wis. Nov. 14.—“ The Economic Geology of 
the Sea,” Mr. H. W. Nichols, Curator of Economie Geology, Field 
Columbian Museum. Noy. 21.—“ The Physical Geography of New 
England,” Dr. H. B. Kiimmel, Assistant Professor of Physiography, 
Lewis Institute. 
Dr. Ludwig Reh, formerly assistant in the Museum at Sad Paulo, 
Brazil, has been appointed assistant in the Concilium Bibliographicum 
at Zürich. With this addition to the working force the Bureau will 
soon bring its work up to date; and its cards will be sent out more fre- 
quently than before. » 
The annual meeting of the American Psychological Association will 
be held at Boston, December 29th and 30th, 1896, that place and time 
having been chosen by the American Society of Naturalists and rati- 
fied by the President of the Association. 
The Executive Committee of the American Society of Naturalists 
have decided to hold the next meeting of the Naturalists at Boston and 
have chosen the Inheritance of Acquired Characters for the theme of 
discussion. 
The next session of the Association of American Anatomists shall be 
held in Washington City, May, 1897, in conjunction with the other 
societies of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons. 
