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SCIENCE 



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of Michigan, as a part of its regular stumner 

 session, during the eight weeks from June 28 

 to August 20 inclusive, 1909. 



The station will be located near the Bogar- 

 dus Engineering Camp of the university on a 

 tract of about 1,700 acres of land owned by 

 the university and stretching from Douglas 

 Lake to Burt Lake in Cheboygan County, 

 Michigan, seventeen miles south of the Straits 

 of Mackinaw. This region, diversified by hills 

 and valleys, was formerly covered by primeval 

 forest, and vestiges of this still remain. It 

 contains many lakes of clear water, unsur- 

 passed in the state for size, depth and beauty 

 of setting. The elevation of the camp, be- 

 tween two and three hundred feet above Lake 

 Michigan, insures cool nights and makes the 

 location favorable for hay fever sufferers. The 

 topography of the region immediately about 

 the Bogardus Camp is such as to afford a 

 variety of floral and faunal conditions. 



It is not the purpose of the station to dupli- 

 cate the work offered at the university, but to 

 provide facilities for field work of a sort that 

 can not be so well carried on at the university 

 or under the limitations imposed by a univer- 

 sity schedule. 



The courses of instruction will include : The 

 natural history of vertebrate animals, fresh- 

 water special work and research in zoology, 

 teachers' course in ecology, identification of 

 trees and shrubs, botanical survey of the Bo- 

 gardus Camp region, and research in ecology. 

 Professor Eeighard, head of the department 

 of zoology, and Dr. George P. Burns, assistant 

 professor of botany in the University of Mich- 

 igan, will be in charge of these courses. 



Not more than twenty students can be ac- 

 commodated, and no registration will be ac- 

 cepted if received after June 10. Applications 

 should be addressed to Professor E. H. Kraus, 

 secretary of the Summer Session, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. 



80IEWTIFIG NOTES AND NEWS 

 Me. Cakes Ames has been appointed direct- 

 or of the Botanic Garden of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. E. R Gates, of the University of 

 Chicago, has accepted a position in the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, where he wiU devote 

 himself to continuing his cytological experi- 

 ments and breeding experiments with (Eno- 

 thera. 



Dr. E. p. Verneau has been appointed to 

 the professorship of anthropology in the Paris 

 Museum of Natural History in succession to 

 the late Professor Hamy. 



Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, secretary of the 

 London Zoological Society, will reside at the 

 gardens when the society's library and ofiices 

 are transferred there. Under him there will 

 eventually be three curators, one each for mam- 

 mals, birds and reptiles. Mr. E. I. Pocock, who 

 is to retain his present post of garden-superin- 

 tendent, will have charge of the mammals, 

 and temporarily of the reptiles, while Mr. D. 

 Seth-Smith is to take over the custody of the 

 birds, combining with this duty the office of 

 inspector of works. 



Dr. Eeederic Ward Putnam, Peabody pro- 

 fessor of American archeology and ethnology 

 in Harvard University, has resigned from ac- 

 tive service. It will be remembered that Pro- 

 fessor Putnam celebrated his seventieth birth- 

 day on April 16. 



Professor Viktor von Lang has retired 

 from the chair of experimental physics at 

 Vienna. 



A portrait of Dr. James Law, the first 

 director of the Veterinary College of Cornell 

 University, has been presented to the college 

 as a gift of the New York state alumni. The 

 presentation was made by Dr. G. S. Hopkins, 

 and the portrait was accepted on behalf of the 

 university by President Schurman. Ad- 

 dresses were delivered by ex-President White 

 and Director Moore. 



The faculty of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology at the last regular faculty 

 meeting of the year adopted the following 

 resolution by a unanimous rising vote : 



Resolved, Tliat the members of the faculty of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology desire 

 to express to Dr. Arthur A. Noyes, upon his con- 

 cluding his work as acting president, their deep 



