1. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE. A course of ten lectures on Spanish and Portuguese Literature in Hopkins Hall, beginning Thursday, November 13, and continuing on successive Tuesdays and Thursdays till December 18.

MR. H. A. TODD, Instructor in the Romance Languages, three lectures on Contemporary Spanish Literature, as follows:

I. Thursday, November 13. Contemporary Poetry in Spain. Condition of Spain from the Peninsular War to the present. Literary Influence of Byron and the French Romantic School. Larra and Espronceda. The older generation of living poets: Zorrilla; Campoamor. The younger school: Nuñez de Arce; Selgas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Larra: Obras Completas, Madrid, 1843.

Espronceda: Pelayo; El Diable Mundo; Poesías líricas.

Zorrilla: Cantos del Trovador; Grenada; Don Juan Tenorio; El Caballo del Rey Sancho; El Alcalde Ronquillo; El Zapatero y el Rey,

Campoamor: Pequeños poemas; Poesías y Fabulas; Doloras y Cantares; El Drama Universal; Utilidad de las Fiores.

Nuñez de Arce: Haz de leña; Gritos del Combate; Raimundo Lull; La ultima lamentacion de Lord Byron; El Vértigo; La Vision de Fray Martin.

José Selgas: La Primavera; Hojas sueltas; Otras hojas sueltas.

La littérature espagnole contemporaine: Les Romanciers et les poètes, par Léo Quesnel. (Nouvelle Revue, tome XVIII, p. 128, 1882).

Un poète lyrique espagnol: Don Gaspar Nuñez de Arce, par L. Louis-Lande. (Revue des Deux Mondes, tome XXXIX, p. 414, 1880).

Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain, by James Kennedy. London, 1852.

Poems translated from the Spanish and German, by Henry Phillips, Jr. Philadelphia,

1878.

II. Tuesday, November 18. The Modern Spanish Novel. Recent discussions of the Art of Fiction. Home competition of Spanish with Foreign Novelists. Fernan Caballero. Antonio de Trueba. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Juan Valera. Perez Galdos.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Fernan Caballero: La Gaviota; La Familia de Alvareda; Cuentos y poesías populares andaluces; Relaciones; Elia; Cuadros de Costumbres; Cuartro Novelas.

Antonio de Trueba: Las Hijas del Cid; El libro de los Cantares; Cuentos campesinos; Cuentos populares; El Redentor moderno.

Pedro Antonio de Alarcon: Diario de un Testigo de la Guerra de Africa; El Sombrero de tres picos; La Alpujarra; Final de Norma; El Escándalo; La Prodiga; Novelas Cortas. Juan Valera: Pepita Jimenez; Las Ilusiones del Doctor Faustino; Daphnis y Chloé; Doña Luz; El Comendador Mendoza.

Perez Galdos: Episodios nacionales, primera y segunda série; Doña Perfecta; Gloria; Marianela; La familia de Leon Roch; El Doctor Centeno.

Un Roman de moeurs espagnol: Pepita Jimenez, par L. Louis-Lande. (R. des Deux Mondes, tome VII, p. 471, 1875).

La Casuistique dans le Roman, à propos d'un Roman espagnol, par F. Brunetière, (R. des Deux Mondes, tome XLVIII, p 453, 1881).

Rassegna delle letterature straniere: Valence et Valladolid, Nouvelles Etudes sur l'Espagne, (Nuova Antologia, VI, 202, 1877).

LIST OF GENERAL ARTICLES AND WORKS.

Diercks: Das Moderne Geistesleben Spaniens, Leipzig, 1883.
Hubbard: Histoire de la Litterature Contemporaine en Espagne, Paris, 1876.

L'Etat Moral et Politique de l'Espagne, par L. Louis-Lande. (R. des Deux Mondes, tome
XLI, p. 753, 1880).

Une Restauration: L'Espagne Sous Alphonse XII, par Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, (R. des Deux Mondes, tome XXI, p. 241, 1877).

Gaffarel: Le Congrès Américanisté de Madrid. (Revue Politique et Littéraire du 5 Nov., 1881).

Warlike character of the old Lusitanians; battle of Ourique (1139); birth of the Portuguese monarchy; University of Lisbon founded (1284); Moorish power crushed at the memorable battle of Tarifa (1340); murder of Inez de Castro; John the Bastard, "da boa memoria," second founder of the Portuguese monarchy; battle of Aljubarrota (1385), “which was to the Castilian what Ourique had been to the Moor"; "The Twelve of England"; Da Gama and the discovery of India (1498); Almeida, the first viceroy of India; the "terrible Albuquerque, Primus in Asia, Cæsar in Portugal"; "Goa the Golden"; Birth of Camoens (1524); culmination of Portugal's fame; discovery of Brazil; John de Castro, consolidator of the Portuguese Empire in the East; Don Sebastian; failure of "the universal idea"; corruption of the Lieges; battle of Alcacerquiver (1578); downfall of Portugal in the East; Philip II of Spain and the "sixty years captivity" of Portugal; death of Camoens.

III. Tuesday, December 9. Life of Camoens (1524-1580).

1537, enters college at Coimbra;

CHRONOLOGY.

1542, visits the royal court at Lisbon;
1546, enamored of Catherina d'Athayde; first banishment;
1547, sent to Ceuta (Africa), second banishment;

1553, sails to India in the ship San Bento, third banishment;

1556, sent to China (Macao), fourth banishment; Catherina dies in Lisbon;

1558, returns to India (Goa); is shipwrecked off the coast of Cambodia, saving only his poem The Lusiads; hears of the death of Catherina on his arrival at Goa; 1567, accompanies Barreto, the governor of Mozambique, to Sofala; is found there in great destitution; 1569, 1570, returns to Lisbon; presents the MS. of The Lusiads to the king, Don Sebastian, to whom the poem is dedicated; 1572, Editio princeps of The Lusiads; 1578, the drama of Alcacerquiver;

1580, first translation (Castilian) of The Lusiads by Benito Caldera; death of the poet in a hospital at Lisbon.

IV.

Thursday, December 11.

Minor Works of Camoens.

The Rimas and Dramas of Camoens in their relation to the Lusiads, comparison of the Rimas of Camoens with those of Petrarch; the Camoens sonnet compared to that of Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, the renovators of the sonnet in Spain; characteristics of Camoens' Cançons, Elegies, and Odes; Italian style followed in all these species of verse; in his dramatic works he follows the peculiar style of his country; exquisite beauty of the poems dedicated to Dona Catherina; extracts.

V and VI. Tuesday, December 16; Thursday, December 18. The Lusiads.

The subject of this poem the most memorable achievement in Portuguese history-the discovery of India by Da Gama; the Lusiads "The Epos of Commerce," an epic national picture of Portuguese glory; machinery and action of the poem; the Lusiads the first epopoeia of modern literature; chief characteristics of Camoens' poetry; Camoens compared with Dante, Tasso, and Ariosto; the episodes, their strongly marked dramatic interest; Camoens' descriptions of nature; his patriotism; his powerful personality. The following episodes are of special interest:

I. Council of deities on Olympus i, 20-40; II. Interviews of Jupiter and Venus, ii, 33-43 (Venus appeals to Jupiter on behalf of the Lusians); III. The Maria-Mission, iii, 101-6, the "lovely Maria" (Queen of Spain) asks succor from her father, D. Alfonso IV, King of Portugal; *IV. Inez de Castro, iii, 119-135 (preferred by La Harpe to anything in the Paradise Lost of Milton); V. The Dream of D. Manoel, iv, 66-75; VI. The old man's fare

well address at Belem (near Lisbon) whence Da Gama's fleet sailed July 8, 1497, iv, 94-end; *VII. The Adamastor-Apparition off the Cape of Good Hope, v, 37-59 (Nelusco of Meyerbeer's opera, L'Africaine, taken from this episode); VIII. The Palace of Neptune with its council of sea-gods, vi, 16-37; IX. Knightly Tale of the "Twelve of England,” vi, 43-68; X. Calming of the Storm by Erycina (Venus) and her Nymphs, vi, 83-93; *XI. The Ilha-dos-Amores (Isle of Love), ix, 51-84.

(*These three episodes will be read).

The three great battles of The Lausiads:

I. Ourique (1139), iii, 42-52 (birth of the Portuguese monarchy); II. Tarifa (1340), iii, 98-99 (last important invasion from Africa); III. Aljubarrota (1385), iv, 24-44 (the Spaniard crushed: independence of Portugal).

VII. Tuesday, December 23. Camoens at Home and Abroad in the Nineteenth Century.

Translations of the Lusiads (Spanish, Italian, French, English); special notice of English versions: Fanshaw, Mickle, Musgrave, Aubertin, Duff, and Burton; the great tercentenary festival of Camoens' death, Lisbon, June 10, 1880; its national character; solemn ceremonies of transferring the bones of Vasco da Gama and of Camoens to the convent of San Jeronymo at Belem ; exhibition of Camonean works; foundation of special Camonean libraries and of the National Camonean Society with its Annuario.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Dalbuquerque: The commentaries of the great Alfonso Dalbuquerque, second Viceroy of India. Translated from the Portuguese edition of 1774, with notes and introduction by Walter de Gray Birch. Printed for the Hakluyt Soc. 3 vols. London, 1875. (P.) Herculano (Alexandre): Historia de Portugal desde o começo da monarchia até o fim do reinado de Affonso III. 3 ra Ed. Lisboa, 1863. (P.)

Adamson: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Luis de Camoens, by John Adamson. 2 vols. London, 1820. (P.)

Burton, (R. F.): The Lusiads. 4 vols. London, 1881. (H.)

Jurominha (Visconde de): Ensaio biographico, constituting vol. I of his Obras de Camoes. 7 vols, large 8vo. Lisboa, 1860-1880. The best work on Camonean Literature. (H.) Aubertin (J. J.): Seventy Sonnets of Camoens. Portuguese text and translation. London, 1881. (P. H.)

Storck (Wilhelm): Luis de Camoens' Sämmtliche Gedichte (Tr.) Erster Band; Buch der Lieder und Briefe: Buch der Sonette. Paderborn, 1880. (H.)

Strangford (Viscount): Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens. London, 1803. Bouterwek: Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit seit dem ende des XIII Jahrhunderts. II Bände. Göttingen, 1801-19. (P.)

Braga (Theophilo): Historia da Litteraturà Portugueza. 13 vols. Porto, 1870-74. Especially secs. 12-14; Historia da Poesia Portugueza. 8 vols. (Vols. VI, VII, VIII). (P.) Simondi: Literature of the South of Europe. Vol. II, 446-540. Bohn ed. London, 1853. (P). Bibliographia Camoniana por Theophilo Braga. Lisboa, 1889.

Bibliographia Camoniana servindo de catalogo official da Exposição Camoniana de Centenario, por Joaquim de Vasconcellos. Porto, 1880.

English translation of The Lusiads especially recommended: The Lusiads of Camoens translated into English Verse, by J. J. Aubertin. 2 vols., 80. London, 1878.

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III. ENGLISH LITERATURE. (PRELIMINARY NOTICE.)

EDMUND GOSSE, Esq., of London, Clark Lecturer on English Literature, will give a course of six lectures on English Literature from Shakespeare to Pope, or the causes and history of the change from the Romantic to the Classic School in the seventeenth century, beginning Monday, January 5, and continuing, on successive Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to January 16. MR. GOSSE will, by special request, also give two lectures on the poet Gray, to whose life and writings he has recently given special attention.

IV. ON SHAKESPEARE. (PRELIMINARY NOTICE.)

PROFESSOR HIRAM CORSON, LL. D., of Cornell University, will give a course of twenty lectures on Shakespeare, beginning on Friday, January 23, and continuing on successive Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to March 11.

He will present ten or more Plays of Shakespeare, representing the poet's early, middle, and late work, and, along with a presentation of the organic structure of the plays selected, will indicate Shakespeare's progress in the creation of character, contrast his portrayal of characters with that of Ben Jonson and other contemporary dramatists, and especially set forth his interpretation of life which is concretely resident in the plays,--in a word, he will present the plays on the human side rather than on the scholastic.

LECTURES.

1. Mr. Wm. I. Marshall, of Fitchburg, Mass., six illustrated lectures, Nov. 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, on The Far West.

1. The New West, including the arid region or "Great American Desert "-its possibilities and its limitation. 2. Rise and progress of Mormonism till it reached Utah in 1847, The Book of Mormon. 3. Mormonisin in Utah; the scenery and resources of Utah; the strength and weakness of Mormonism. 4. Oregon-its discovery, exploration missionary and pioneer settlements to 1846. 5. Oregon since 1846-its scenery, resources and industries. 6. California-its cities, towns, orange groves, vineyards, forests, and

scenery.

II. Prof. B. L. Gildersleeve, LL. D., of Johns Hopkins University, two lectures, Nov. 25, 27, on 1. Sappho. 2. Socrates.

III. Robert B. Morison, M. D., of Baltimore, one illustrated lecture, Dec. 2, on The Complexion and Hair.

IV. John N. Mackenzie, M. D., of Baltimore, one illustrated lecture, Dec. 4, on The Mechanism of the Voice and its Care.

V. Mr. Locke Richardson, of New York, four lectures with recitals, Dec. 9. 11, 16, 18, on four of Shakspere's plays.

1. Twelfth Night. 2. Henry IV., Part I. 3. The Winter's Tale. 4. The Merry Wives of Windsor. (RECESS OF TWO WEEKS).

VI. Mr. George M. Towle, of Boston, two lectures, Jan. 6, 8, on 1. Charles Dickens as a man. 2. Charles Dickens as an author.

VII. Mr Eadweard Muybridge, of the University of Pennsylvania, one illustrated lecture, Jan. 13, on Animal Locomotion.

VIII. Mr. John Fiske, of Cambridge, Mass., thirteen lectures, Jan. 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, Feb. 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, on the American Revolution. 1. The first misunderstandings, 1761-67. 2. War clouds gathering, 1767-74. 3. The coming on of the storm, 1774-75. 4. Independence declared, 1775-76. 5. The times that tried men's souls, 1776. 6. Attack on the centre, 1777. 7. The centre saved, 1777. 8. Change of front, 1778. 9. Beginning of the end, 1778-79. 10. Spreading of the war, 1779-80. 11. A year of disasters, 1779-80. 12. Darkness before dawn, 1780-81. Arnold's treason. 13. Independence achieved, 1781-83.

A Third Series of University Studies, comprising about 600 pages, in twelve monthly monographs devoted to American Institutions and Economics, is hereby offered to subscribers at the former rate, 83. As before, a limited number of Studies will be sold separately, although at higher rates than to subscribers for the whole set. Special uncements are herewith made as to the subjects of the early numbers in the Third Series, for which subscriptions will now be received. In general it may be said that the New Series will include papers on Local and Municipal Government, State and National Institutions, and American Economic History.

By

I. Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States.
HERBERT B. ADAMS, Ph. D. (Heidelberg). January, 1885. In press.
II-III. Virginia Local Institutions:-The Land System; Hundred; Parish;
County; Town. By EDWARD INGLE, A. B. (J. H. U.). February and March, 1885.

IV. The Land System of the New England Colonies. By MELVILLE EGLES-
TON, A. M. (Williams College).

V. City Government of Baltimore. By JOHN C. ROSE, Assistant Professor of Law,
University of Maryland, (School of Law).
VI.

Constitutional Growth in the United States. By AUSTIN SCOTT, PH. D.
(Leipzig). Professor of History, Political Economy, and Constitutional Law, Rut-
gers College.

With the December number, the Second Series of the University Studies is completed and supplied with an Inder. Copies of Volume II, bound in cloth and uniform with Volume I, will be sent post-paid by the Publication Agency of the University upon receipt of price, $3.50. A few copies only of Volume I are still on sale at the rate of $5, but only in connection with Volumes II and III, and only to libraries or to subscribers desiring complete sets.

APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR NEWCOMB.

At a meeting of the Trustees, October 6, 1884, Professor SIMON NEWCOMB, LL. D. (Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and Corresponding Member of the Institute of France), of Washington, Superintendent of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, was invited to succeed Professor Sylvester, under the title of Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in the Johns Hopkins University. This appointment he has accepted and has already entered upon his duties. Professor Newcomb has been more or less associated with the University since its origin. He was one of the first to receive the appointment of a Lecturer, he was announced as one of the original associate editors of the American Journal of Mathematics, to which he has occasionally been a contributor, and he has acted as an Examiner in Mathematics. The subjects of his principal scientific memoirs are:-on the Secular Variations, etc., of the Asteroids; investigations of the Motions of the Moon; the Theories of the Planetary Motion; Tables of Neptune and Uranus; etc.

He has also been a frequent contributor to the magazines on political economy and on the progress of science.

The American Journal of Mathematics begins its seventh volume with Professor Newcomb as Editor, and Associate Professor Craig, as Associate Editor.

GUSTAV BISSING, A. B., has resigned his Fellowship in Mathematics, to accept a position as one of the examiners in the U. S. Patent Office, Washington.

ALBERT H. TOLMAN, A. B., has resigned his Fellowship in English, to accept the position of Professor of English Literature and Rhetoric in Ripon College, Wisconsin.

JAMES R. DUGGAN, PH. D., has resigned his Fellowship in Chemistry, in order to be free to engage in certain chemical work not quite compatible with his duties as a Fellow.

The vacant fellowship in Philosophy was assigned by the Trustees, October 6, at the recommendation of the Academic Council, to WILLIAM NOYES, JR., A. B., Harvard, 1881.

COURSE OF LECTURES TO GRADUATE STUDENTS. The second annual course of EDUCATIONAL LECTURES by various members of the Faculty was begun with a lecture by President Gilman on Academic Degrees, on Saturday, November 15, at 10 a. m., in Hopkins Hall. A second lecture was given by Professor Hall on Student Life, on November 22.

This course will comprise about twelve lectures and, like that of last year, is designed only for graduate students, who are invited to attend. Special registration in a book provided at the office, and special cards of admission are requisite.

Lectures have been promised by the following persons, on the subjects named, the dates to be fixed hereafter.

S. NEWCOMB. Mathematics and education.

J. RENDEL HARRIS. On the study of ancient MSS.
W. K. BROOKS. The zoological significance of education.

M. WARREN. Application of the historical method to the study of Latin.
R. T. ELY. Educational value of political economy.

M. BLOOMFIELD. Method of comparative philology as pursued to-day.
E. M. HARTWELL. Physical training in American colleges.

A. M. ELLIOTT. Methods in the study of modern languages.
W. E. STORY. Methods of teaching arithmetic.

T. CRAIG, Mathematical teaching in France.

FORMATION OF A SHAKESPEARE CIRCLE.

In order to encourage the study of Shakespeare in this University, during the current year, among all the students, in science as well as in literature, a SHAKESPEARE CIRCLE has been formed under the general guidance of Dr. Browne and Dr. Wood. The members of the Circle will receive special aid and encouragement in this study. They will have the privilege of attending not only Mr. Corson's lectures, but also other less formal conferences and meetings, in which various Shakespeare scholars will take part. All members of the University who wish to join this Circle, may inscribe their names in a book at the Registrar's office and receive a card of membership.

The first meeting was held Monday, November 24, when the plan of the winter's work was made known, and hints were given in respect to good methods of study, adapted to the members of the Circle.

FORMATION OF AN ART CIRCLE.

Under the auspices of the Archæological Society of the Johns Hopkins University, it is proposed to form an ART CIRCLE to develop an interest in Art and Archæology. All students, those of the scientific and literary, as well as those of the historical, philosophical and classical classes are invited to join.

On entering their names in the book kept for the purpose at the Registrar's office, they will receive the card of membership.

The Circle will hold frequent meetings at 106 West Monument street, under the direction of members of the Archæological Society, either for the informal study of works of art on exhibition, or for the consideration of some interesting art-topic.

The members of the Circle will have the right to attend the art loan exhibitions during the term, as well as the meetings of the University Archæological Society.

NOTICE OF THE MATRICULATES' LITERARY SOCIETY. Under the auspices of the Matriculate Society of the University, a LITERARY SOCIETY was organized last year, which had for its object the promotion of literary exercises of all kinds. The society was organized by matriculates, but its membership already includes a number of graduate students. The Society's Committee asks the coöperation and aid of all students to make successful the efforts of the society during this, its second year of existence; and for that purpose requests their presence, when possible, and contributions to the exercises of the society. Essays, addresses, and the like are desired, and in the regular debates any persons present are requested to take part.

The officers for the current term are the following: President: Theo. Hough. Vice-President: A. L. Lamb. Secretary: H. M. Brune. Executive Committee: Langdon Williams, Chairman; C. E. Coates, Theo. Hough, H. O. Thompson, Allan C. Woods.

The meetings are held at the rooms of the Matriculate Society, 111 W. Monument street, at 8 p. m., on alternate Mondays.

LOAN EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS, ETC.

By the liberality of A. L. Frothingham, Esq., a large number of original drawings by early Italian masters, chiefly of Bologna, and some interesting marble fragments, bought from the Campana collection, were placed on exhibition in the rooms at 106 Monument street. Some other interesting archæological relics have also been exhibited in the same house. This will be followed by periodical exhibitions of engravings, photographs and antiquities. The arrangements are under the auspices of the Archæological Society of the University. (See p. 28 of this Circular). The rooms are open Saturdays from 2 p. m., till dark.

The autumn meeting of the American Oriental Society (Prof. W. D. Whitney, President; Prof. C. R. Lanman, Secretary), was held in Hopkins Hall, Wednesday and Thursday, October 29, 30.

The annual session of the American Academy of Medicine (Dr. Benjamin Lee, President) was held in Hopkins Hall, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 28, 29.

The graduate students and their friends were invited to a reception in the Biological Laboratory, Monday evening, December 1, 1884.

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NOTE RESPECTING THE EXCURSION MAP OF BALTIMORE, PUBLISHED BY THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.

This map of Baltimore and its vicinity is intended primarily for the convenience of members of the Johns Hopkins University Field Club and such other students as may be desirous of investigating the natural history or exploring the natural beauties of this neighborhood. It is hoped that it will also prove a useful guide to other citizens of Baltimore whose walks or drives may lead them into the adjoining country.

The map is not to be regarded as complete or final in any respect, but only as the first step toward the attainment of a really good representation of the region. In the preparation of this first edition there has been no fresh survey; only the data already published have been compiled. These materials are more or less defective or inaccurate, and it is earnestly requested that all persons using the map, whether members of the University or not, make suggestions as to its improvement. It is proposed to publish new editions from time to time, upon which it is very desirable to embody all available new information or corrections concerning roads, paths, accurately determined elevations, important local names, etc., etc. Such information, as well as suggestions relative to the improvement of the general character of the map, are therefore solicited and may be sent in writing, with a signature, to the Field Club, at the office of the Johns Hopkins University.

For the purpose of additional convenience in its use the map has been ruled into squares of one mile each, the lines being lettered at the top and bottom and numbered at the sides for easy reference. Time tables of such lines of street cars as run from the city for a considerable distance into the country may be found in the Baltimore Directory.

A few copies of the map are for sale at Messrs. Cushings & Bailey, Messrs. J. Murphy & Co., and at the University. Price, $1.00.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLICATION.

By invitation of the Johns Hopkins University, SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, LL.D., F. R. S. L. and E., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, Scotland, gave a course of eighteen lectures, on Molecular Dynamics, before the physicists of the University, in October, 1884. Stenographic notes were taken by Mr. A. S. Hathaway, B. S., Cornell University, lately a Mathematical Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University, and these notes (with additions subsequently made by the lecturer) have been carefully reproduced by the Papyrograph Plate Process. A bibliography of the subjects considered will also be given with the lectures. In all there will be about 350 pages, quarto.

A few copies are offered for sale at $5.00 net. The edition is strictly limited to 300 copies, and orders should therefore be sent at once to the Publication Agency of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., U. S. A. Copies may also be procured from Messrs. Mayer & Müller, W. Französische Strasse 38, Berlin; A. Hermann, 8 Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris; Trübner & Co., 57 Ludgate Hill, London.

The following notice of the lectures is reprinted from Science, November 7, 1884:

The title 'Molecular dynamics' does not give an accurate idea of the nature of Sir William Thomson's recent course of lectures at the Johns Hopkins university. The object of the lectures was to consider the possibility of placing the wave-theory of light upon a perfectly tangible physical basis which should be sufficient to account for all the phenomena. The lecturer stated at the outset that he would be occupied more with pointing out difficulties than with removing them. He expressed the conviction that what takes place in the propagation of light-at least through gases, if not through solids and liquids-can be represented in its essential features by supposing a mass of vastly denser matter in the ether, bounded by a perfectly rigid shell; this shell surrounded at a small interval by another perfectly rigid spherical shell; and so on.

Each shell is connected with the one outside it by a number of spiral springs: the precise number of the shells is not a vital matter in the theory, and the actual number may be infinite, i.e., the system of shells may constitute a continuous atmosphere to the molecule. The problem of the modes of vibration of this system is essentially the same as that of a system of particles connected by springs in a straight line. As for the ether itself, it is to be considered as a substance which may not be an elastic solid, but which, so far as the luminiferous vibrations are concerned, moves as if it were an elastic solid. The lecturer carried on the mathematical discussion of these two dynamical problemsthe propagation of waves in an elastic solid, and the motion of a system of spring-connected particles in a straight line-side by side, usually devoting the first half of a lecture to one problem, and the remainder to the other.

It is impossible here to give any specific account of the contents of the lectures; it may be stated, however, that many of the cardinal phenomena of light were shown to be explicable by the hypothesis sketched above, but that the phenomenon of double refraction presented apparently insuperable difficulties, as it has done in all previous attempts to explain it. By proper suppositions regarding the elasticity of the springs (in the mechanical 'model' of the phenomenon given above) double refraction would indeed be produced; but its law would be widely different from that actually observed.

The lecturer was conversational in his manner, made almost no use of notes, and was full of enthusiasm for his subject. The audience was composed of professors of physics from eastern and western colleges, scientific men from Washington, and students and instructors of the Johns Hopkins university. The lectures, while not condensed in form, presupposed thorough familiarity with the physical and mathematical theories involved. A verbatim report of them, from stenographic notes, will be issued in a limited edition, by the use of the papyrograph process. At the close of the course, Sir William Thomson was presented by the class with one of Rowland's concave gratings, as a memento of their connection with him.

Scientific Association.

November 5.-Fifty-ninth regular meeting. Professor Martin in the chair. Fifty-one persons present.

Officers were eleeted for the ensuing year as follows:

Professor Martin, President; Professor Rowland, Vice-President; Dr. E. H. Keiser, Secretary; Committee on Papers, Professor Martin, Dr. Franklin, Mr. G. A. Liebig, Jr., Dr. Keiser, Dr. Brooks, and Mr. W. Noyes.

Papers read:

On Sir William Thomson's models to illustrate the theory of light, by H. A. ROWLAND.
On a New Theory of Variation, by W. K. BROOKS. (Abstract on p. 14).
Recent Experiments on the Sense of Rhythm, by G. S. HALL.

Philological Association.

October 10. Fifty-sixth regular meeting. Professor Gildersleeve in the chair. Thirtytwo members present.

Papers read:

On a Philological Expedition to Canada, by A. M. ELLIOTT. (Abstract on p. 20).
On the Meaning of Baalim and Ashtaroth in the Old Testament, by A. L. FROTHING-
HAM, JR.

November 7.-Fifty-seventh regular meeting. Professor Gildersleeve in the chair. Thirty-nine members present.

Papers read:

On Petrarca's relations to the Universities of his time, by A. EMERSON.
Two Etymological Notes, by M. BLOOMFIELD.

Some Account of Belock's Speculation on the Financial History of Athens, by C. D.
MORRIS.

On Weil's View of the Origin of the Word "Poet," by B. L. GILDERSLEEVE.

Historical and Political Science Association.

October 3.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

Pullman, a Social Study, by R. T. ELY. (To be published in Harper's Monthly.) The American Historical Association, by H. B. ADAMS.

October 10.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

Pennsylvania State Finance and Taxation, by T. K. WORTHINGTON.

Sources of information for the study of Slavery, by GENERAL WILLIAM BIRNEY. October 17.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

The House of Representatives, Revenue and Supply, by WOODROW WILSON. Review of Shaw's "Icaria," by D. R. DEWEY.

October 24.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

Review of the seventh volume of the U. S. Census on "Valuation," by JOHN C. ROSE. (Abstract published in The Nation, October 30, 1884).

The Progress of Civil Service Reform in the United States, by H. B. ADAMS. October 31.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

Land Laws of Mining Districts, by CHARLES HOWARD SHINN. (Published in full in the "Historical Studies," Second Series, XII, December, 1884).

The Government and Civil Service of China, by DR. MCCARTHY, for many years a resident in China.

November 7.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

History of Witchcraft in Connecticut, by C. H. LEVERMORE.

The House of Lords, by E. R. L. GOULD.

November 14.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

City Government in Baltimore, by JOHN C. ROSE.

The proposed Revision of the City Charter of Boston, by H. B. ADAMS.

Archæological Society.

On November 19, the Archæological Society of the University held its opening meeting at 106 W. Monument street, where the rooms of the Society are now established. MR. M. COHEN read a paper on Col. M. I. Cohen, who made the valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities recently acquired by the University. (See p. 21.) A communication was made by PROFESSOR HAUPT on some remarkable early Chaldean antiquities lately purchased by Prof. A. Marquand, of Princeton.

DR. FROTHINGHAM spoke on some Arabian and other antiquities belonging to the same collection.

DR. EMERSON called the attention of the Society to some interesting late works on the history of Greek Art.

PROF. HARRIS presented the photograph of the first lines of the "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," proving it to be in the same hand as the preceding part of the MS. On Saturday, November 22, there was opened at 106 Monument street, under the direction of the Archæological Society, an exhibition of original drawings, in red chalk, pen and ink, water colors and pencil, by old Italian masters, loaned from the collection of A. L. Frothingham, which was purchased by him in 1870 from the heirs of Prof. Angelini, of the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. There are 85 drawings, of which 52 are by masters of the School of Bologna, extending over the period from Prospero Fontana (1512-1597), the precursor of the Caracci, who were the regenerators of the School, down to Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802), the last of the imitators of the Caracci. Besides the Caracci (Lodovico, Agostino and Annibale), it includes good examples of Guido Reni, Guercino, Franceschini, and Donato Creti.

The Roman School is represented by 14 examples, including Sodoma of Sienna (1479-1554), Pellegrino Tibaldi, the imitator of Michel Angelo, and the Scholars of

Raphael, Polidoro da Caravaggio and Julio Romano: from Naples is a pen drawing by Josef Ribera, "Il Spagnoletto."

Of the schools of North Italy are notable drawings by Leonardo da Vinci of Milan (1452-1519), Correggio of Parma (1494–1534), Andrea Mantegna of Padua (1430–1506), Giorgione of Venice (1478-1511). There is an interesting example of Henricus Goltzius (1558-1617), who, though not a native, studied in Italy and was a true child of the Italian Renaissance.

A number of fragments of Roman and Pompeian sculptures from the same collection were also on exhibition. They form a part of some acquired in 1871 at Rome at the sale of the remnant of the famous collection of the Marquis Campana. Most of the pieces are fragments of sarcophagi belonging to the second and third centuries after Christ. Some are heads which adorned the corners of the lids, some are narrow reliefs from the front of these lids, while the greater portion belonged to the lower part of the sarcophagus.

Metaphysical Club.

November 18.-Thirty-ninth regular meeting. Professor Hall in the chair. Nineteen members present.

It was decided to discontinue the existing Metaphysical Club and after proceeding tentatively for a few meetings, to effect an organization which shall better satisfy the needs of those interested in this department.

Reports of readings were made:

On Fred. Kapp's Grundriss einer Philosophie der Technik and on du Prel's Philosophie der Mystik, by G. S. MORRIS.

On "The Magnet" a fourteenth century manuscript of Petrus Peregrinus, by C. S. PEIRCE.

On a series of Books on Ultra-Longevity, by J. JASTROW.

On Meynert's Psychiatrie, Radestock's Genie u. Wahnsinn, and Sully's Psychology, by G. S. HALL.

A discussion on psychical research closed the meeting.

Baltimore Naturalists' Field Club.

October 15.-Dr. Williams in the chair. Thirteen members present.
The following officers were elected for the year:

President, Dr. G. H. Williams; Secretary, Dr. W. H. Howell; Chairman of Zoölogical section, Mr. Lugger; Chairman of Botanical section, Mr. Donaldson; Chairman of Geological section, Dr. Williams.

October 16.-Special meeting. Dr. Williams in the chair. Twenty-three members

present.

The new map of the region surrounding Baltimore published under the auspices of the Field Club, was exhibited and addresses in reference to it made by President Gilman, Dr. G. H. Williams, Mr. Uhler, Dr. B. W. Barton and Mr. G. L. Smith. November 19.-Regular monthly meeting. Dr. G. H. Williams in the chair. Twenty members present.

MR. NELSON read a note on the bark louse parasitic on the beech.

This louse is usually known as a coccus, but is probably an aphis. It has a peculiar brush-like appendage consisting of thin fragile white threads. These are composed of a substance allied to the wax secreted by bees and are a cellular secretion of epidermal glands, which in this insect are especially abundant on the dorsal side of the last four abdominal segments. In the coccus on the alder the secretion covers the whole of the back of the abdomen. The function of the secretion as far as known, is to keep the insect dry and warm. It is lost with the last moult and left clinging to the branches of the tree. No ant has been found near the colonies of the beech coccus. Neither oviparous females nor males were found in the beech coccus, but only winged viviparous females.

MR. DONALDSON of the Botanical section made a report of the field work for the past month and gave the plan of work to be adopted during the present year.

MR. MCMURRICH addressed the club on the methods of collecting and studying parasitic fungi, describing the methods to be followed in tearing out, macerating and cutting sections of specimens, and the method of innoculation experiments. MR. C. S. PALMER reported the mineralogical work of the Geological section of the Field Club.

Brown tourmaline in good crystals and tremolite in fibrous masses had been recently found in the crystalline limestone of Texas, Balto. Co. The anthophyllite-like mineral occurring at the Mt. Washington copper mine had been chemically examined by Messrs. Palmer and Kastle, who found that it agreed with anthophyllite in containing no lime, although a very considerable amount of alumina was present. The optical properties of this mineral, as determined by Dr. Williams, are those of the monoclinic system; it appears therefore to be what Des Cloizeaux has called amphibole-anthophyllite.

American Institute of Archæology, Baltimore Branch.

A meeting of the Baltimore Branch of the Archæological Institute of America, was held November 17, at 106 W. Monument Street. By grouping around Baltimore the members of several States besides Maryland, a total membership of about fifty was reached, which entitled the branch to be represented by two members at the General Council of the Institute.

It was decided that Mr. McCoy's gift to the society of one hundred dollars should be given in the form of a life-membership in the Institute to whomever, being a resident in Baltimore, should present an archæological dissertation judged worthy of the prize. Professors Gildersleeve, Warren and Elliott were appointed a committee to arrange the details of the above proposal. Finally the secretaries, Drs. Emerson and Frothingham, were chosen members of the Council, which met in New York on November 20.

[Issued December 5, 1884.]