652 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



In the autumn and following spring field lessons were given on 

 marine zoology, the object being to study animals in their natural 

 habitats. Another excursion was made to Woods Hole, Buzzards 

 Bay, and a summer laboratory established for ten days at Goldsbor- 

 ough, Maine, where work similar to that done the previous summer 

 was here carried out. Among the field lessons of the spring of 1899 

 was an excursion of four days' duration to Cuttyhunk, one of the 

 Elizabeth Islands, where there was an opportunity to study a ma- 

 rine fauna southern in character and different from that found on 

 the Maine coast. On the afternoon of Agassiz's birthday a sail 

 was taken to another of this group of islands Penikese, the site 

 of the famous summer school. In the evening the class of seven- 

 teen persons listened to the reading of selections from the life of 

 Agassiz, poems regarding him, and magazine articles describing 

 events connected with the great meeting in the summer of 1873. 

 The next day an excursion was made to Gay Head, Martha's Vine- 

 yard, where the afternoon was spent in studying the wonderfully 

 colored clay cliffs and in searching for fossils. As an outcome of 

 Mr. Grabau's field lessons the Hale House Natural History Club 

 was formed. This club consists of teachers and other persons who 

 have banded together for the study of natural history. Meetings 

 are held twice a month, and similar classes have been formed for 

 children of the neighborhood. 



The Teachers' School of Science has been of great assistance to 

 the Boston Normal School by furnishing certain of its pupils with 

 instruction in geology and zoology. 



In 1893 The Teachers' School of Science took part in the exhi- 

 bition of elementary science teaching made by certain teachers of 

 the schools of the eastern part of Massachusetts. The school was 

 enabled to take part in this public exhibit through the generosity 

 of Mr. T. A. Watson, a pupil in the school, who paid the necessary 

 expenses. 



A COLLECTION of articles obtained by the Baron de Baye in a scientific 

 expedition last year to Siberia and the Russian Caucasus contains speci- 

 mens from very ancient times down. Among them are mammoth bones 

 and chipped flints, like those of the Mousterian period in France, from the 

 Yenisei; arrowheads, like the European and American, from the same 

 region ; bronze weapons from the Caucasus ; iron arrowheads like those of 

 the Congo; skulls, weapons and ornaments, necklaces of hard, polished, 

 pierced stones, from the Kurgans of the steppes, dating from antiquity 

 down to the beginning of the middle ages; Caucasian jewels, and ceramic 

 ware ancient and modern. A very curious object is one of the statues, 

 called Kamenaia Baba, of a kind supposed to have been set up by the 

 Scythians and always held in veneration, of which the present specimen 

 is the only one yet allowed to go out of Russia. 



