792 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



has the use of loan collections of objects from Mexico, the Aleu- 

 tian Islands, the Utah cliff-dwellers, Japan, etc. The most im- 

 portant of these loans is the Ryerson collection from Mexico a 

 large series of antiquities gathered by Senor Abadiano, and form- 

 ing an excellent general representation of Mexican archaeology. 

 No journal of anthropology is published, but a series of Bulletins 

 has been started. These will be octavo publications in pamphlet 

 form, presenting new material or results of investigations by in- 

 structors or advanced students in the science. Two have already 

 been published, dealing with points of Mexican archaeology. 



The Hull Biological Laboratories are the newest buildings 

 upon the grounds. They are the gifts of Miss Helen Culver, and 

 are named in memory of her uncle, Charles J. Hull. They form 

 a group of four buildings arranged with an inclosed court. The 

 buildings are grouped into two pairs, the members of which are 

 connected by covered passageways or cloisters. Biology and Bot- 

 any are thus united, and Anatomy and Physiology. The Biologi- 

 cal and Anatomical Laboratories are at the front of the group 

 and are connected by a short passage surrounded by a rather 

 striking entrance way. The four buildings themselves, while 

 conforming in style to the rest of the university structures, have 

 been erected with special reference to their intended use, and 

 neither space nor light has been sacrificed to the demands of 

 Gothic decoration. In the center of the rectangular area sur- 

 rounded by these buildings it is planned to have a pond of water 

 of considerable size for supplying material in the direction of 

 pond life. The Zoological Laboratory is under the direction of 

 Head Professor C. O. Whitman, and consists of four floors and 

 basement. Connected with the latter is a greenhouse arranged 

 for supplying light and dark conditions, also rooms for animals 

 in captivity, and various workshops. On the first floor is the 

 general laboratory for elementary students, the general biological 

 library, and a museum of illustrative series of life forms. The 

 remaining floors are given up to suites of rooms for the head 

 professor and his assistants, and to research laboratories. When 

 the university was founded, Prof. Whitman brought with him 

 a force of instructors and advanced workers from Clark Uni- 

 versity, at which institution he had developed the work in zo- 

 ology to remarkable completeness. The work begun at Worces- 

 ter has been prosecuted at Chicago with diligence. Among the 

 important researches here conducted by Dr. Whitman and by 

 his helpers, William M. Wheeler, Edwin O. Jordan, Sho Wa- 

 tase, and others, are contributions to annelid morphology, mol- 

 luscan morphology and structure, and the development of arthro- 

 pods and invertebrates. Important work in the line of cellular 

 biology has also been done. An investigation now being con- 



