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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 hes. “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 Russel 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. 
