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ies " and other interesting localities affords 

 many opportunities for relaxation. 



Owing to the delay in the issuance of the 

 second circular of the Eighth International 

 Zoological Congress, at Graz, the president 

 requests us to call the attention of the Amer- 

 ican members to the following points. Ap- 

 parently all the state railways of Austria as 

 well as the " Siidbahn " will allow a very ma- 

 terial reduction in the price of tickets, upon 

 the exhibition of membership or participant's 

 cards as soon as the Austrian frontier is 

 crossed. It is therefore best for all to have 

 these cards before entering Austria and pros- 

 pective members should send their remittance 

 (members 25 Kronen, participants 12 Kronen 

 — a Krone is a little more than 20 cents) to 

 the " account of the VIII. International Zo- 

 ological Congress " at the Steiermarkische 

 Escomptebank in Graz. All applications for 

 accommodations should be addressed to the 

 Presidium des VIII. Internationalen Zoolo- 

 genkongress, Universitatsplatz 2, Graz, Aus- 

 tria, and should specify the number of rooms, 

 beds, price desired, the day, and where pos- 

 sible the hour of arrival in Graz. The hotel 

 accommodations of the city are rather limited 

 and it is probable that students' rooms will 

 have to be used, this involving getting the 

 meals in another place. It is expected that 

 the English edition of the second circular will 

 be issued about the first of May. 



Graduate students in geology from the 

 University of Wisconsin are spending the 

 month of May in detailed mapping of the 

 pre-Cambrian rocks of the Menominee iron- 

 bearing district of Michigan. Professor C. 

 K. Leith and Mr. W. J. Mead are in charge of 

 the party. This work constitutes a regular 

 course in geology at the University of Wis- 

 consin. 



The first meeting of New York state teach- 

 ers of educational psychology was held at 

 Ithaca, April 8 and 9, at the invitation of the 

 Educational Department of Cornell Univer- 

 sity. Eepresentatives of the college and 

 normal schools of the state discussed the ex- 

 tent and form of instruction in the nervous 

 system, and the place of experimental work, 



in the course in educational psychology. The 

 latter discussion resulted in the formulation 

 of the chief purposes for which experimental 

 work might be introduced, and of the criteria 

 for the selection of specific experiments. The 

 discussion of experimental work was supple- 

 mented by an exhibition of the apparatus 

 used for demonstration in the Cornell course 

 in general psychology, of the drill and re- 

 search equipment of the psychological labora- 

 tory, and of apparatus in the educational 

 laboratory for the conduct of mental tests. 

 By invitation, the evening meeting was held 

 in the psychological laboratory, where the 

 formal program was followed by an exposi- 

 tion by Professor Titchener of the contribu- 

 tions of the Cornell laboratory to structural 

 psychology, with special reference to the ex- 

 perimental psychology of the thought-proc- 

 esses. A committee consisting of Professor 

 G. M. Whipple, of Cornell (chairman), Pro- 

 fessor George M. Forbes, of Eochester, Dr. 

 W. Van Dyke Bingham, of Columbia, and 

 Dr. Susan F. Chase, of the Buffalo Normal 

 School, was appointed to arrange for a meet- 

 ing next year. 



Provision has been made for instruction 

 and field work in botany, zoology and geog- 

 raphy at the Illinois Biological Station 

 recently established on Quiver Lake, an offset 

 of the Illinois Eiver one and a fourth miles 

 above Havana in Mason County, Illinois. 

 The students will have as the field of their 

 observations, the banks of the Illinois Eiver 

 itself, a series of lakes, streams and bayous 

 of the vicinity, and the bottoms, bluffs and 

 uplands adjacent, which present a great vari- 

 ety of situations unusually rich in all plant 

 and animal forms. All students will have the 

 use of the Chautauqua grounds of the State 

 Association of Epworth Leagues. Sleeping 

 and dining rooms, laboratories and a lecture 

 room are thus provided, ready for use. The 

 grounds are on a forest-covered, somewhat 

 sandy, elevated bank or bluff, bordering 

 Quiver Lake, are lighted by electricity and 

 are abundantly supplied with pure water. 

 The session will begin June 20 and continue 

 six weeks. 



