University of Virginia Library

Noted Ecologist
To Lecture
On Population

By PAT GRANEY

Dr. Garrett Hardin, a human ecology
professor at the University of California
at Santa Barbara, will present a lecture
entitled "Ethics On An Overcrowded
Spaceship" at 8 p.m. Monday in the
Chemistry Building auditorium.

As a noted scholar in human ecology,
Mr. Hardin will visit the University to
participate in the Human Biology and
Society program next week.

To Attend Seminar

He will also attend an environmental
science seminar on "Population.
Environment and the Law" at 4 p.m.
Tuesday in the Newcomb Hall South
Meeting Room.

Mr. Hardin has served as the visiting
professor at several universities including
Stanford University, University of
California at Berkeley and Los Angeles
and the University of Chicago.

He is also well known for his lectures
on abortion, conservation and population
control and his articles in scientific
journals.

Books On Ecology

Mr. Hardin is the author of several
books on ecological problems. His works
include an elementary biology textbook,
"Biology: Its Problems and
Implications," an introduction to
evolutionary problems, "Nature and
Man's Fate, and a collection of essays
"Population, Evolution, and Birth
Control".

The Human Biology and Society
Program which Mr. Hardin will attend is
directed by former vice chancellor for
medical affairs Dr. Thomas Hunter. Dr.
Hunter now serves as the University's
Owen Cheatham Professor of Science.

The program is geared toward the
promotion of interdisciplinary study of
broad social and scientific problems by
scholars in medicine, the basic sciences,
the humanities and other academic
disciplines.