Notes and Comment. 



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NOTES AND COMMENT. 



The celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Dar- 

 win's birth by Columbia University bids fair to bring together 

 one of the most noteworthy of the series of contributions now 

 appearing on Charles Darwin and his influence on science. Nine 

 lectures on this subject w T ill be given at different dates from 

 February 12 to April 16, 1909, by Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 William Berryman Scott, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Franz Boas, 

 Edward Lee Thorndike, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, John 

 Dewey, George Ellery Hale, and Franklin Henry Giddings, 

 whose special fields of research range from botany, zoology and 

 •anthropology to modern philosophy and the evolution of 

 human institutions. 



An even more extended series of Darwin anniversary ad- 

 dresses to be given before the Biological Club of the University 

 of Chicago, beginning February 1 and closing March 18, includes 

 the following titles: "The World's Debt to Darwin," Prof. E. G. 

 Conklin; "The World of Thought Before and After the Publi- 

 cation of the Origin of Species," Prof. G. H. Mead; "Cosmic 

 Evolution," Prof. F. R. Moulton; "Bridging the Gap Between 

 Living and Lifeless," Prof. A. P. Mathews; "Phylogeny," Prof. 

 S. W. Williston; "Variation and Heredity," Prof. W. L. Tower; 

 "The Interpretation of Environment," Prof. H. C. Cowles; 

 "Darwinism and Political Science," Prof. C. E. Merriam; 

 "Human Evolution — Physical and Social," Dr. Geo. A. Dorsey; 

 "The Influence of Darwinism on Psychology," Prof. J. R. 

 Angell; "The Theory of Individual Development," Prof. F. R. 

 Lillie; "The Evolution of Religion," Prof. Shailer Mathews; 

 "Darwinism and Experimental Methods in Botany," Prof. 

 D. T. MacDougal, Carnegie Institution; "Evolution in Language 

 and in the Study of Language," Prof. C. D. Buck; "Selection, 

 Mutation, and Orthogenesis," Prof. C. O. Whitman. 



The commemorative exercises of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, held February 12, 1909, included a presentation to 

 the American Museum of Natural History of a bronze bust of 

 Darwin by Charles Finney Cox, president of the academy, and 

 addresses on Darwin and Geology, by John James Stevenson, 

 Darwin and Botany, by Nathaniel Lord Britton, and Darwin 



