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Tue University of the Philippines and the 
Bureau of Science will combine this year to 
inaugurate a marine biological survey of the 
Philippines. The party to take the field will 
be composed of Mr. Alvin Seale, chief of the 
division of fisheries, Bureau of Science, Dr. 
Lawrence E. Griffin, associate professor of 
zoology, University of the Philippines, Dr. 
Reinhart P. Cowles, assistant professor of 
zoology, Mr. Lawrence D. Wharton and Mr. 
S. F. Light, instructors in zoology, and three 
Filipino assistants. The station this year will 
be at Puerto Galera, a small harbor on the 
northern coast of Mindoro, where marine life 
is extremely abundant and the facilities for 
collecting observations are unusually fine. 
The party will be in the field about three 
months. 
A station for instruction and research in 
biology will be maintained by the University 
of Michigan, for the fourth season, as a part 
of its regular summer session during the 
eight weeks from July 2 to August 23 inclu- 
sive, 1912. The station will be located near 
the Bogardus Engineering Camp of the uni- 
versity on a tract of about 1,666 acres of land 
owned by the university and stretching from 
Douglas Lake to Burt Lake in Cheboygan 
County, Michigan, 17 miles south of the 
Straits of Mackinac. This region, diversified 
by hills and valleys, was formerly covered by 
forests of hardwoods and conifers. Small 
tracts of the former still remain. It contains 
many lakes of clear water, unsurpassed in the 
state for size, depth and beauty of setting. 
The elevation of the camp, between one and 
two hundred feet above Lake Michigan, in- 
sures cool nights. The staff of instructors in- 
cludes Professors Jacob Reighard, Frank 
Smith and Henry Allen Gleason, and Drs. 
A. F. Shull and R. M. Harper. 
THE ninth annual session of the Puget 
Sound Marine Station will convene at Friday 
Harbor, Washington, on June 24, and will 
continue for a period of six weeks. The plant 
has been considerably augmented so as to pro- 
vide facilities for an increase in attendance 
over the session of 1911, when nearly one 
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hundred persons were present at the station. 
The courses to be offered are as follows: 
Algology, H. B. Humphrey, Washington 
State College; Systematic botany, A. R. 
Sweetser, University of Oregon; Elementary 
zoology, W. A. Redenbaugh, Seattle High 
Schools; General ecology, H. S. Brode, Whit- 
man College; Embryology of invertebrates, 
W. J. Baumgartner, University of Kansas; 
Ichthyology, E. V. Smith, University of 
Washington; Advanced ecology, Trevor Kin- 
eaid, University of Washington; Plankton, 
John F. Bovard, University of Oregon. Fa- 
cilities will also be offered for research work 
along botanical and zoological lines. The 
systematic survey of the local fauna which 
has been in progress for several seasons will 
be continued by further deep water explora- 
tion. The director of the station, Professor 
Trevor Kincaid, of the University of Wash- 
ington, will be glad to give more extended in- 
formation to persons planning to visit the 
laboratory. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
THe Maryland legislature has voted the 
sum of $600,000, to be followed by an annual 
grant of $50,000 to establish a school of tech- 
nology in connection with the Johns Hopkins 
University. 
A Girt of $300,000 to Princeton University 
from Mr. William Cooper Proctor, of Cincin- 
nati, for the endowment of the Charlotte Eliz- 
abeth Proctor fellowships in the graduate 
school is announced. Mr. Proctor, who had 
previously given $500,000 to the graduate 
school, was elected a life member of the board 
of trustees to succeed Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, 
of New York, who resigned last autumn. 
Mr. E. C. Converse, of New York City, has 
given $125,000 to Harvard University for the 
establishment of an Edmund Oogswell Con- 
verse professorship of banking in the gradu- 
ate school of business administration. The 
university has also received $28,000 from Mrs. 
J. K. Paine, for the establishment of the John 
Knowles Paine fellowship in music. 
Tue University of Chicago has established 
a system of retiring allowances for professors 
