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"workers to purchase the separate parts which interest them. A sub- 

 scription to the entire work is too much to expect, except from 

 Universities, Museums, learned Societies and the like ; and even some 

 of these seem slow to recognise that the purchase is a duty. We are 

 told, for instance, that from one of our famous university towns, with 

 libraries, museums, and rich colleges, no single order for " Das Tierreich " 

 has as yet been received. What an ungrateful world it is. 



The Hopkins Seaside Laboratory. 



In the American Naturalist for August, Professor Vernon L. Kellogg 

 gives an account of the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford 

 Junior University. It is situated on the bay side of the promontory 

 Point Pinos, which is the southern limit of the Bay of Monterey. In 

 addition to a fauna more or less peculiar to itself, the bay contains a 

 number of sub-tropical and sub-boreal types peculiar to the north and 

 south zones of the Pacific coast between which it lies. " A well-known 

 and experienced biologist of the University of Chicago, who spent a 

 summer at the Hopkins Laboratory, has said that Monterey Bay and 

 the Bay of Naples are much alike in the abundance and representation 

 of species," and the laboratory has this in common with the Naples 

 Station, that it can be used to advantage at any time in the year. The 

 regular sessions for students are in June and July, and the fee is 

 twenty-five dollars. Investigators prepared to carry on original work 

 may use the laboratory and its equipment free of charge, and seventeen 

 private rooms are placed at their disposal. 



The Morning of Science. 



It was a momentary aberration which led a great zoologist — recently 

 lost to science — to suggest, in the enthusiasm of a retrospect, that it 

 was now time for us to be making a list of the things we did not 

 know. A very different suggestion is conveyed in a remarkable 

 sentence in the presidential address delivered by Dr. Edward Orton at 

 the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. After following Mr. Alfred Eussel Wallace in a retrospect of 

 the progress of science, the President pointed out that the very title of 

 the Association indicated that the work of science was far from com- 

 plete. " The founders of the Association, fifty years ago, clearly saw 

 that they were in the early morning of a growing day. The most 

 unexpected and marvellous progress has been made since that date, 

 but as yet there is no occasion and no prospect of modifying the title. 



