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[ NEWS AND NOTES. J 



The Laboratory of the United States Fish Commission at Woods Hole, 

 Mass., will be opened on June 15th for the ninteenth season of its existence. 

 The privileges of the laboratory, including the services of the stafif of collectors 

 and use of the commission's fleet of vessels, are, as usual, extended free of 

 charge to those competent to carry on research in marine biology. Applications 

 for tables should be sent to the director of the laboratory, Dr. F. B. Summer, 

 17 Lexington Ave., New York City. 



The Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 

 located at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, announces the summer session for 

 1903 to begin July 1, and continue for six weeks. Investigators may arrange to 

 use the laboratory from the middle of June until the middle of September. Ex- 

 tensive courses in Zoology, Botany, and Microscopical Methods are arranged, 

 supplemented by a semi-weekly Biological Club, evening lectures, and numer- 

 ous excursions. For full information address Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, 502 

 Fulton St., Brooklyn. 



The Lake Laboratory of Ohio State University, located at Sandusky, on 

 Lake Erie, will open for the 1903 summer session on June 29th and close August 

 7th. The laboratory offers a number of courses in Zoology, Entomology, 

 Botany and Physiology, and provides opportunity for investigators to carry on 

 research work in any direction. Applications and correspondence should be 

 addressed to the director, Prof. Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University, 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



The Alstead School of Natural History will hold its fifth session at Alstead 

 Center, New Hampshire, during five weeks of the summer of 1903. The ar- 

 ranged courses embrace the following subjects : Ornithology — The Native Birds ; 

 Zoology, with special reference to Entomology ; Flowers and Insects ; General 

 Botany ; Trees and Shrubs ; Physiography — The Making of the Landscape. 

 Information may be secured by addressing Mr. Wm. L. W. Field, Milton, Mass. 



To Make a Sterile Cotton-Wool Swab. — Take a piece of stout copper 

 wire about the length of a test-tube, and bend about half an inch at one end 

 firmly over a piece of cotton-wool, twirl the wool with the fingers into a firm 

 lump somewhat smaller in diameter than the test-tube, fix the free end of the 

 wire into a soft cork or into another plug of wool, which closely fits the mouth 

 of the tube, and, holding the tube within the points of a pair of Cornet forceps, 

 pass it the full length backward and forward in a Bunsen flame for a few minutes. 

 When the wool swab in the tube begins to show signs of scorching it is sterilized. 

 The same result may, of course, be obtained by placing in a hot-air sterilizer. 

 Affix a label, which is filled in when used with the name of patient, date, and 

 clinical information. — Jour. State Med. XI : 3. 



