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standpoint if our medical schools and hos- 

 pitals, our veterinary hospitals and even 

 our cat and dog hospitals and other places 

 for the care of sick animals could all be 

 concentrated in one institution for the 

 broad study of disease. This indeed is now 

 being attempted in certain institutions and 

 no doubt will result in a broader conception 

 of pathology. David John Davis 



University op Illinois, 

 College of Medicine, 

 Chicago, III. 



INVESTIGATIONS AT THE WOODS 



HOLE BIOLOGICAL STATION 



OF THE UNITED STATES 



BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



The laboratory of the Woods Hole Biological 

 Station of the United States Bureau of Fisher- 

 ies opened for the season's operations on June 

 19, under the directorship of Dr. P. H. 

 Mitchell of Brown University. The various 

 investigators are: Dr. W. W. Browne, of the 

 College of the City of New York, who is 

 studying various phases of bacteriology of 

 fishes including bacterial changes during cold 

 storage and the occurrence of pollution bac- 

 teria in food fishes; Dr. I. A. Field, of Clark 

 University, who is completing a comprehen- 

 sive report on the biology and economic value 

 of the sea mussel and is conducting investi- 

 gations on its embryology; Dr. C. W. Hahn, 

 of the New York City High School of Com- 

 merce, who is studying sporozoan parasites of 

 fishes with especial reference to modes of in- 

 fection ; Dr. Edwin Linton, of Washington and 

 Jefferson College, who is studying fish para- 

 sites and the food of certain fishes; Dr. 

 Sergius Morgulis, formerly of the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, who is continuing 

 researches on the metabolism of fishes ; and Dr. 

 G. G. Scott, of the College of the City of 

 New York, who is studying the oxygen re- 

 quirements of various marine forms and the 

 oxygen consumption of developing fish em- 

 bryos. The scientific assistants are: Mr. A. 

 E. Barnard, of Brown University, who is 

 working with the director on the nutrition of 



oysters; Mr. E. L. Barney, of Brown Univer- 

 sity, who is aiding the director in the study 

 of diatoms of green gill oysters and the life 

 history of sporozoan parasites; Mr. F. B. 

 Dieuaide, of the College of the City of New 

 York, who is assisting Dr. Scott and is ma- 

 king a collection of Woods Hole marine flora; 

 Mr. E. W. Fuller, of Amherst College, who is 

 assisting Dr. Morgulis; and Mr. K. S. Eice, 

 of Brown University, who is assisting the 

 director in the study of the food supply of 

 oysters. 



The facilities of the laboratory have also 

 been extended to the following table appli- 

 cants : Dr. N. A. Cobb, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, and the Misses Cobb and Mr. 

 Alfred Steinberg, who are assisting Dr. Cobb 

 in the study of the physiology of nematodes; 

 Dr. S. A. MacCallum, of New York City, who 

 is investigating fish parasites, especially the 

 helminthes; Dr. Albert Mann, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, who is studying the 

 diatom flora of the Woods Hole region; Dr. 

 A. M. Eeese, of West Virginia University, who 

 is investigating light reactions of Diemyctylus; 

 Mr. A. C. Eedfield, of Harvard University, 

 who is studying the melanophores of lower 

 vertebrates especially in relation to adrenal 

 glands of fishes; Mrs. A. C. Eedfield, who 

 is studying respiration in lamellibranchs ; Dr. 

 F. P. Eeagan, of Princeton University, who 

 is studying the development of Fundulus 

 heteroclitusj and Mr. C. C. Speidel, of Prince- 

 ton University, who is sharing a table with 

 Dr. Eeagan, and is investigating the function 

 of certain peculiar cells of the spinal cord of 

 the skate. The facilities of the laboratory 

 will also be granted, during September, to Dr. 

 F. C. Weber and assistants, from the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, for investigations concerning 

 copepods as food for sardines. The laboratory 

 closes on September 15. 



P. H. Mitchell 



Woods Hole, Mass., 

 August 29, 1916 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The American Astronomical Society met in 

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