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Of the thirty-one students who attended the course, this year about one-half 

 were teachers. The other half was made up of students who were either making 

 credits in their regular college work or who were preparing for a course in med- 

 icine. One practicing physician took the course. A few who took the work 

 had come to Wood's Holl for the Nature course which was not given this year. 



After the work of the day the instructors met for a short time in the 

 director's room and went over the work next to be given. Difficult points were 

 demonstrated by the instructor who would be in charge of the work and methods 

 of presenting the subject were discussed. 



Formerly, at the time each group was being taken up, an investigator, espec- 

 ially interested in the group but not otherwise interested in the course, has been 

 invited to lecture on his specialty before the class. The duty of the instructors 

 was only to assist in the laboratory work, while the director in charge of the 

 course was responsible for the selection of the types to be studied and for the 

 manner in which each group was presented to the students. While this method 

 may be the theoretically ideal way of introducing students to the study of zool- 

 ogy it is lacking in practice in some important respects ; it is not always possi- 

 ble to get investigators of certain groups of animals to lecture at the time the 

 lectures are needed, and often the work goes on without lectures. Investigators, 

 not knowing the students to whom they are lecturing, nor the work they have 

 done, often fail to present their subjects in the best manner possible. It was to 

 ensure a coordination between lectures and laboratory work, and lectures adapted 

 to beginning students, that the director this year. Dr. G. A. Drew, not only asked 

 each instructor to give the lectures on certain groups but to take charge of the 

 laboratory work on the same. 



The success of the plan was to be seen in the active interest of the students 

 in their work which continued throughout the course. Very little ciittvig was 

 done and on the last day twenty-eight of the thirty-one students who began the 

 course reported for work. Caswell Grave. 



Johns Hopkins University. 



Botany at the Biological Laboratory at Wood's Holl. 



BOTANICAL STAFF. 



Bradley Moure Davls, Instructor in Botany, University of Chicago. 



Gkorge T. Moork, Instructor in Botany, Dartmouth College. 



Rodney H. True, Lecturer at Harvard University. 



Charles H. Shaw, Professor of Botany, The Temple College. 



Anstruther A. Lawson, Fellow in Botany, University of Chicago. 



LiLiJAN G. MacRae, Curator and Collector in Botany. 



Developments, such as have in recent years taken place at Wood's Holl in 

 physiology and in botany, afiford illustrations of the all-embracing love of knowl- 

 edge so characteristic of this unique station by the sea, the Mecca of American 

 biology. More than ever, during the past season, botany has made itself felt as 

 a live and considerable part of the laboratory. The building was full to the 

 last table. On the upper floor were assembled the workers in cryptogamic botany 

 under Dr. Davis and Dr. Moore. These were divided into three groups, those 



