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140 SALLE AAU MINt WHEKLY —— ‘orbin’s orner These next few weeks are the time when one needs his dress suit and frock coat more than at any other part of the year. We are quite busy on that kind of work. If you are pleased to order, give us as much time as you can. You can order from anywhere. F. A. CORBIN, 1000 CHAPEL ST., New Haven, Conn. [a9~ MY DAY IN NEW YORK is Thursday Place, Astor House. Time, 12 to 4. Yale Forestry Ass’n Officers. Forestry in its scientific phase is at- tracting an increasing following among Yale men, and this fact was emphasized strongly at the annual meeting of the American Forestry Association at Wash- ington, in December. Among the Yale men present were: Timothy L. Wood- ruff, Yale ’79, Lieutenant-Governor of New York, who delivered an excellent address on forestry in that State and of his interest in the subject as President of the Forest Preserve Board; Edward A. Bowers, Yale ’79, of New Haven, formerly Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, Department of the ‘Interior, the office in general charge of the forest reserve lands; Gifford Pinchot, Yale ’89, Forester of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, head of all the forest experimental work of the govern- ment; Arnold * Hague" Yale* 63) Ss. of the U. S. Geological Survey, and George P. Whittlesey, Yale ’78, Record- ing Secretary of the Association, all members of the Board of Directors; Henry S. Graves, ’92, Superintendent of working plans of the Division of For- estry;. J. K, Stauffer, <65.> huior_ of The Forester, the official magazine of the association; T. H. Sherrard, ’o7,- and W. C. Hodge, Jr., ’99, of the Division of Forestry, Washington. . At the election of officers Mr. Whit- tlesey declined to serve another term as Treasurer, although retaining his posi- tion as Recording Secretary. Mr. Pin- chot entertained the members of the Association in attendance upon the con- vention at a reception at his home on Rhode Island Avenue. ~<a ~~ Harvard Boathouse Burned, On the morning of December 27 fire destroyed the new Harvard boathouse, and badly damaged the new launch, the Frank Thomson. Loss on the _boat- house is estimated at $20,000. The boat- house was nearing completion. Re- building will begin soon. Che “Hew Gem” THE FACE. SIMPLEST No experience required. keep them sharp for one year. a & 5 SS Baked 3 BS Well, That’s Fine 2 te" Send for Illustrated Price List. THE CEM CUTLERY CO 673 Hudson Street; New York. Safety-Razor It’s the BEST and Safety ever devised. We guarantee and Price $2, Postpaid. TEN SCIENTIFIC BODIES. [Continued from 136th page.| properties of the isomeric forms of potassium ferricyanide. Other papers were by Prof. W. O. Atwater, Wesleyan; Prof. A. P. Saun- ders, Cornell; Prof. S. W. Johnson, Yale; Prof. H. W. Wylie, United States Agricultural Department; Prof. Edward Hart, Lafayette College, editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society; Prof. F. W. Clark, head chem- ist of the United States Geological Sur- vey. Among the lady members of the Association is Miss Charlotte Bragg of Wellesley College. POINTS OF ARCHAEOLOGY. The Archeological Institute of Amer- ica held its meeting in the Art School. Prof. Charles Eliot Norton is the hon- orary President of the Institute. Particularly interesting was the ac- count of Mr. E. P. Andrews of Cor- nell, telling how he deciphered the in- scription on the east architrave of the Parthenon. Mr. Andrews observed on this architrave three parallel rows, each sixty feet long, of holes which appar- ently had been made by staples fasten- ing on the letters of an inscription which had been torn off. He first made a copy by rubbing the row of stones, two feet high, which contained the holes, and placed it in order around his room where he could study it constantly. On the hypothesis that the relative posi- tion of the holes must indicate roughly the general outline of the Greek letters, and that similarly related holes must indicate the same letters, he made guesses as to what the letters were. Guessing out one word and then another, he seems to have made a satisfactory restoration of the entire inscription. His first idea that the inscription was of the fourth century B. C., threw him off the track, as he found later that it was of the first century A. D. Mr. Andrews’ paper was illustrated by ster- eopticon views. By the researches of Prof. Rufus B. Richardson, head of the American School of Classical Study at Athens, stylish gentlemen of the present day may know how to wear their mustaches as did the Greeks of old. Other papers were presented by Mr. Edward Robinson, Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Prof. F. B. Tarbell, Univer- . sity of Chicago; Dr. Joseph C. Hoppin, Bryn Mawr: Miss May L. Nichols, Vassar; Mr. S. O. Dickerman, Yale ’96; Dr. W. N. Bates, University of Penn- sylvania; Prof. G. F. Wright, Oberlin; Prot. J:“"R. : Sterrett;: “Amherst: Prot John Williams White, Harvard; Dr. Cyrus Adler, United States National Museum. Washington; Dr: Clarence H. Young, Columbia; Prof. H. M. Fowler, Western Reserve University: Prof. Tracv Peck, Yale; Prof. W. W. Good- win, Harvard; Dr. William Hayes Ward editor of the Independent; Prof. A. L. Frothingham, Princeton; Prof. C. L. Brownson, College of the City of New York: DrM: Ty -Hartle.Columbia< Dr. G. B. Hussey, University of Chicago; Prof. Paul Haupt, Johns Hopkins: Mr. Edmund von Mach, Wellesley; Prof. Ebersole, Cornell: Mr. Paul Baur, Heidelberg: Prof. Mitchell Carroll. Co- lumbian University; Prof. W. G. Hale, University of Chicago: Miss Daphne Kalopothakis: Rev. Walter Lowrie, the American School of Classical Study in Rome: Prof. T. D. Seymour, Yale: Dr. qT. M, Heérmance.. Yale ’o3: Prof. -W. C. Lawton, Adelohi College; Prof. Andrew Fossum, St. Olaf College; Prof. F. W. Kelsey, Michigan University: Prof. Frank Carter, McGill University. Mont- real; Miss Florence Tuckerman. Youngs- town: Prof.” Edward Capps. University of Chicago; Prof.J. H. Huddleston. Uni- versity of Maine; Prof. J. »M- Paton, Wesleéyan. | ANTHROPOLOGISTS—-EASTERN AND WESTERN WOMEN. The Anthropological Section of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science met in the Psychological Laboratory and Osborn Hall. Prof. Putnam of Harvard announced an important discovery, a human bone in Trenton gravel, found in the digging for a railroad cut in New Jersey. If the find is genuine and the bone was not accidentally displaced, the discovery may change somewhat the date generally set "? for the antiquity of man in this country. Prof. Seaver of Yale presented the first table ever made of the compara- tive statistics of the physical charac- teristics of American women in different parts of the country. They were. col- lected from the records of measurements on 1,500 young women in each of three colleges representing the East, the Cen- tral part and the Middle West of the United States, Wellesley, Oberlin and the University of Nebraska, respectively. The average Wellesley woman is taller and heavier than the typical woman of either of the Western groups. She is of the long-legged and short-trunked type. The Eastern group excels in girth of upper arm, but is inferior in girth of forearm. This is explained by the fact that Western women as a rule are more accustomed to physical work, which reduces the fatty tissue of the plump upper arm that the Eastern girl likes, while the forearm is given a marked muscular development. The same physical labor gives the westerner a larger lung capacity than the easterner, and with it a greater vitality and endur- ing power. The average Eastern woman has a larger girth of head, though proportionately narrower. SECRETARIES AND ADDRESSES. Persons who desire further special in- formation about any of the societies are referred to the following list of secre- taries and their addresses: ee Dr. T. H. Morgan, Bryn Mawr Col- lege, Bryn Mawr, Pa., Secretary of The American Society of Naturalists; Dr. Bashford Dean, Columbia University, New = York City, Secretary of The American Morphological Society; Dr. D. S. Lamb, 800 Tenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., Secretary of The Association of American Anatomists; Dr. F. S. 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