HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

On successive Wednesday evenings during term-time until about June 1, there will be given, under the auspices of this society, familiar talks upon the Massachusetts fauna. These talks will deal with the haunts, habits, and peculiar forms of animals, thus furnishing a suitable introduction to shore and field collecting. They will be abundantly illustrated. They will be given in the Lawrence Scientific School building, west wing, room 4, and will be open only to members and graduates of the University. The subjects and speakers for the first four meetings are as follows:

March 30. Massachusetts Reptiles; Mr. Samuel Garman, president of the Boston Scientific Society.

April 13. Massachusetts Butterflies; Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, president of the Boston Society of Natural History.

April 20. Massachusetts Birds; Mr. Wm. Brewster, president of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.

April 27, Something about Crabs; Mr. J. S. Kingsley, editor of the "American Naturalist."

FRENCH READINGS.A course of six French Readings, beginning March 21, 1887, will be given in Lecture-room No. 11, Sever Hall, on Mondays, at 4 p.m., by Professors Bocher and Cohn.

These readings are given for the purpose of enabling the French department to purchase books needed in the special library now in Sever 21.

The six readings will be distributed as follows:

March 21 - Alfred de Musset, Carmosine. Professor Bocher.

March 28 - Chanson de Roland. (Reading in modern French from the old French text.) Professor Cohn.

April 4 - Moliere. La Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes. Professor Bocher.

April 18 - Bossuet, Oraison funebre de Henriette d'Angleterre. Professor Cohn.

April 25 - Theodore de Banville, Gringoire. Professor Bocher.