1298 Journal of Applied Microscopy 



Journal of Seaside, lakeside, and field labo- 



ratories will soon open, and, judging 



Applied Microscopy from the preparations being made, the 



3"'^ attendance this year will be larger and 



Laboratory Methods. more representative than ever. It is 



interesting to note in this connection 

 — :: the progress which has recently been 



Edited by L. B. ELLIOTT. 



Issued Monthly from the Publication Department made in the establishment and expan- 



of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., ^ 



Rochester, N. Y. sion of summer laboratories. It is but 



SUBSCRIPTIONS: ^ f^^ years since Agassiz and his pupils 



One Dollar per Year. To Foreign Countries, $1.25 began their investigations in the CX- 

 per Year, in Advance. ° ° 



== tremely unpretentious laboratory at 



The majority of our subscribers dislike to have their "PoniL-oco Tlici oi->mi o- a-ycr\ "11 



files broken in case they fail to remit at the expiration .reniKese. 1 ne COlIling SeaSOn Will 



of their paid subscription. We therefore assume that no r:„j „,„ii „„.,;„„„j i„u <- :„„ „ „"i 



interruption in the series is desired, unless notice to "nd WCll equipped laboratories, CaSlly 

 discontinue is sent. 



. accessible from all parts of the country, 



with hundreds of teachers and students, 



many of them entering for the first time into the real spirit of research work 



and gaining a clearer view of the possibilities for development in their own 



laboratories, where of necessity the most time is to be spent. 



The opportunity to come in personal contact with the various forms of life in 

 their native places, to study them under these most favorable conditions with 

 the assistance of experienced and enthusiastic instructors, and to meet as co- 

 laborers a similarly interested company, is one which ought to be taken advantage 

 of by every teacher of biological science, especially since the cost is made so 

 very moderate. Specially prepared short courses are now offered at most of the 

 laboratories which are suitable for those beginning this work, and the informa- 

 tion gained is of such a nature as to be of practical assistance for class use. 



The life at a summer laboratory is conducive to physical recuperation, and 

 the new ideas and impulses gained will be an antidote for the fossilizing 

 tendency of sticking too closely to the native heath. 



Some have helped defray expenses by collecting at the seaside laboratory 

 sufficient material for class use during the ensuing year — star fish, sea urchins, 

 crustaceas, worms, sea anemones — which can be easily preserved and sent 

 inland by freight. 



There are in every state many science teachers and others preparing for 

 teaching who could spend two or three months at a summer laboratory at 

 scarcely greater expense than any ordinary vacation costs, and reap benefits 

 which could be had in no other way. "No doubt many who would spend the 

 summer vacation at some laboratory, do not do so from a lack of confidence in 

 the practical value /o //lem of the work and an exaggerated idea of the expense 

 involved. We would suggest in such instances correspondence with the directors 

 of the various laboratories. 



