The Faculty of Medicine of Harvard University offers, this year as last, a course of free public lectures, to be given at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, Saturday evenings at 8, and Sunday afternoons at 4, beginning January 3 and ending April 25, 1909. No tickets are required, admission being free. Following is a list of the lectures and their subjects, with dates:

Jan. 3--Fifty Years of Surgery: A Review. Dr. D. W. Cheever '52.

Jan. 9--Some Things Parents should know about the Teeth of their Children. Dr. C. A. Brackett '73.

Jan. 10.--Anatomical Variations. Dr. T. Dwight '66.

Jan. 16--Auditory Vertigo: Deafness due to Ear Disease. Dr. C. J. Blake '65.

Jan. 17.--Inflammation. Dr. W. T. Councilman h.'99.

Jan. 23--Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever. Dr. J. H. McCollom '69.

Jan. 24--The Circulation of the Blood. Dr. W. T. Porter.

Jan. 30--On the Work for the Relief of the Sick of Various Agencies Other than Medical. Dr. J. J. Putnam '66.

Jan. 31--Rabies. (Illustrated.) Dr. L. Frothingham '89.

Feb. 6--Curvature of the Spine, and School Life. Dr. E. H. Bradford '69.

Feb. 7--Methods of Testing the Acuteness of Vision and Color Perception. Dr. C. H. Williams '71.

Feb. 13--Psychotherapy: Its Use and Abuse. Dr. R. C. Cabot '89.

Feb. 14--Infantile Paralysis and its Treatment. Dr. E. H. Bradford '69.

Feb. 20--The Teeth of Public School Children: How Related to the Children's General Health and Development. Dr. W. H. Potter '78.