134 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY. [July, 



paign, 111. A circular giving specific information regarding railway fares, hotel rates, 

 etc., will be issued by the Secretary in July. 



The New Marine Biological Laboratory. — The new laboratory is at Wood's HoU, 

 Massachusetts. A convenient site has been secured close to the shore and to the lab- 

 oratories of the United States Fish Commission. The laboratory building consists of 

 two stories, the lower story for the use of students receiving instruction, the upper story 

 exclusively for investigators. The laboratory will have boats, dredges, and other col- 

 lecting apparatus ; it will also be supplied with running sea-water, with alcohol, and 

 other reagents, glassware, microtomes, aquaria, etc., a limited number of microscopes 

 for students' use, and a small reference library. 



The laboratory for students will be opened on Tuesday, July 17th, at 9 A. M., for a 

 systematic course of six weeks in zoology. By permission of the director students may 

 continue their work until September 20th without additional payment. Microscopes, 

 glassware, etc., will be supphed without extra charge, except for breakage. Hand 

 lenses, dissecting instruments, drawing materials, etc., may be bought at cost in the 

 laboratory. It is desired that students owning microscopes should bring them. The 

 fee for this course is twenty-five dollars, payable in advance. The number of students 

 will be limited to twenty-five. 



The laboratory for investigators will be opened on July loth, and will be closed on 

 September 22d. It will be equipped as fully as the means permit. Microscopes will 

 not be provided, but it is believed that investigators will find most of their indispen- 

 sable wants satisfied. The fee for an investigator's table will be fifty dollars for the 

 present season. 



Rooms accommodating two persons may be obtained near the laboratory at prices 

 varying from $3.00 to ^4.00 a week, and board from j';4.5o to $7.00. Applications for 

 places in the lalDoratory should be made imincdiatcly to the ' Secretary of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, Nahant, Mass.' Wood's Holl, owing to the richness of the marine 

 life in the neighboring waters, offers exceptional advantages. It is situated on the 

 north shore of Vineyard Sound, at the entrance to Buzzard's Bay, and maybe reached 

 by the Old Colony Railroad (2^ hours from Boston), or by rail and boat from Fall 

 River and New Bedford. Persons coming by the way of Boston should buy round-trip 

 tickets (#2.85). 



American Association. — The thirty-seventh meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will be held at Cleveland, Ohio, beginning Wednesday 

 morning, August 15, and lasting until Tuesday evening, August 21. By vote of the 

 Association at the New York meeting, Cleveland was fixed upon as the place of meet- 

 ing for 1888. Owing to the national gathering of the Knights Templars in Cleveland, 

 and at the earnest solicitations of the local committee, the Council have changed the 

 date to August 15. 



A special office and reception rooms for the Association have been opened at No. 

 407 Superior street, next door to the HoUenden, where will be the hotel headquarters. 

 The meetings will be held in the Central High-School Building on Wilson Avenue, 

 where, also, will be the offices of the local committee, and of the Permanent Secretary 

 during the week of the meeting. Board may be had at moderate rates in various 

 hotels and boarding-houses within easy reach of the High-School Building, and, as the 

 ladies of the local committee will provide a lunch in the building, members will not be 

 obliged to leave the building during the heat of the day. 



A special circular in relation to railroads, hotels, and other matters will be issued by 

 the local committee, and members who are about changing their address for the sum- 

 mer should notify the local secretary at once. It can now be stated, however, that 

 arrangements have been made by Mr. Dudley and the Special Committee on Trans- 

 portation by which members and their families will generally be able to obtain return 

 tickets for one-third the regular rate. It is probable that all the railroads will insist 

 upon the three-day limit before the meeting for the sale of tickets with certificates se- 

 curing reduced return rates. Arrangements for excursions and receptions will be an- 

 nounced by the local committee. 



For all matters pertaining to membership, papers, and business of the Association, 

 address the Permanent Secretary, at Salem, Mass. , up to August 9. From August 9 until 

 August 22, his address will be 407 Superior St., Cleveland, Ohio. 



A compass plant. — An extraordinary plant is said to grow wild in the States of Ore- 

 gon and Texas, the leaves of which point due north and south. If so, it can be utilized 



