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ing species from Australia, Japan, South America, and other 

 parts of the world. The east end of the fourth floor of the zoologi- 

 cal building is devoted to the work in bacteriology. Prof. Jor- 

 dan, who conducts this work, has a large laboratory and several 

 smaller individual laboratories equipped with steam sterilizers, 

 hot-air sterilizers, autoclavs, incubators, refrigerators, and all 

 other necessary apparatus for culture and study of pathogenic 

 bacteria and other germs. In connection with this work a Bacte- 

 riological Journal Club has been organized for reading and dis- 

 cussing the current literature of the field. On this floor, also for 

 the present, are the quarters of Dr. Baur, Professor of Vertebrate 

 Paleontology. The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology is 

 under the direction of Prof. G. Baur. Before coming to the uni- 

 versity Dr. Baur worked at Munich and afterward assisted Prof. 

 O. C. Marsh at Yale. In 1891 he had charge of the Salisbury Ex- 

 pedition to the Galapagos Islands. His work at the university 

 began at the founding of the institution in 1892. His courses 

 cover vertebrate zoology and paleontology. Special reference is 

 given to the great problems in taxonomy, distribution, and phy- 

 logeny. There are extensive collections for practical study from 

 the South Dakota Miocene, the Wyoming Laramie, Kansas Cre- 

 taceous, and Texas Permian. No reference to Prof. Whitman's 

 work would be complete which omitted the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory and the Journal of Morphology, although neither is 

 directly connected with the University of Chicago. The Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl, Mass., is thoroughly and 

 favorably known. Dr. Whitman is the director and has been 

 indefatigable in its development. The work done there during 

 the summer months is of the best. Students work in all grades, 

 from elementary class work to the most advanced original re- 

 search. Besides the laboratory work, which is of course the 

 chief feature, series of lectures more or less popular but thor- 

 oughly scientific in character are given. The University of Chi- 

 cago co-operates in these laboratories with the institutions of 

 learning which have preceded her in their development. The 

 Journal of Morphology, while not a university periodical, fur- 

 nishes the natural medium of the original investigations there 

 conducted. Dr. Whitman was connected with it before the uni- 

 versity opened, and is still associated in its editorial management 

 with Dr. Allis, of Milwaukee. 



While the university has not yet a medical department, one of 

 the new laboratories is arranged for anatomy. It is under the di- 

 rection of H. H. Donaldson, Head Professor of Neurology. Among 

 the features of the building is the handsome demonstration room. 

 In this building also are two special lines of work of an interest- 

 ing kind viz., the work in neurology and that in experimental 



