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wisdom of President Carter and the board of trustees, 

 Williams College has secured from Dr. Anton Dohrn 

 the right to a table in the Naples station. It is intend- 

 ed to make this in reality an American table ; it being 

 open to any original worker from the United States 

 who has received his appointment from the authori- 

 ties of Williams College. The only agreement 

 necessary in connection with an appointment is, 

 tliat the appointee, on his return to America, deliver 

 a brief course of lectures at Williams, by which the 

 college may gain some of the advantages which liave 

 been afforded the appointee at Naples. The name of 

 eacli naturalist who lectures at the college will 

 appear in the catalogue as lecturer on the staff of 

 instruction. 



Dr. Edmund B. Wilson, Fellow by courtesy of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, is the first and present 

 appointee to tlie position. 



— 3Ir. Common of Ealing, Eng., presented to tire 

 Eoyal astronomical society, at its meeting Marcli 9, 

 a Woodburytype enlargement of a photograph of the 

 nebula of Orion, taken Jan. 30, 1883, with his great 

 three-foot reflector, the exposure being thirty-seven 

 minutes long. He considered that it showed a 

 marked advance on iprevious pliotographs. Some of 

 the finer details were lost in the enlargement, yet 

 this showed several features not rendered in any 

 drawing. . Mr. Common called attention to several 

 differences between the photographs and the draw- 

 ings of Lord Rosse. 



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