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SCIENCE. 



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Glohe-fish (Tetraodon). — It is the Ovoides 

 setosus. 



Rose-fish {Sebastes). — The Bebastodes ni- 

 grocinctus of California. 



An Antellarid. — This is by no means an 

 antennariid (as the word meant should have 

 been written) but a ceratiid (Gaulophryne 

 Jordani). 



Bat-fish. — As there are various fishes called 

 bat-fish more definiteness is required than 

 that name alone. The fish figured is the 

 Malthe vespertilio of the eastern coast of the 

 United States. 



Surely it is a wrong to the public as well 

 as to the author to give such work the wide 

 circulation that the new encyclopedia will 

 doubtless enjoy. The author of the article 

 of course knows — none better — ^what are the 

 right names to be attached to the figures and 

 those given furnish sufficient evidence of the 

 fact that the proof was not submitted to him 

 — or at least that he did not correct it. 



Theo. Gill. 



TBE MINNESOTA SEASIDE STATION. 



The Minnesota Seaside Station party of 

 1904 will meet at the Hotel Dominion, Victoria, 

 B. C, about the nineteenth of July. The pre- 

 cise date, depending upon the sailing of the 

 steamer. Queen City, will be announced, to 

 those who join the party, when the sailings 

 are determined upon by the navigation com- 

 pany. 



The party will proceed to the station and 

 will remain in camp for one month, returning 

 to Victoria in time to reach the east before 

 the opening of the schools in September. 



Owing to the impossibility of making agree- 

 ments about railway rates at the present time, 

 no announcement of a party from Minneapolis 

 can be made thus early. In the past it has 

 been an easy matter to get excursion rates 

 during July so that the railway fare and 

 sleeping car tariff between Minneapolis and 

 Victoria may be estimated under $75. If a 

 sufficient nimiber join the station and desire 

 the organization of a party to make the trip 

 together, such organization will be undertaken 

 and the trip will be made by one of the 

 northern transcontinental routes with the usual 

 stop-offs in the mountains. 



The Minnesota Seaside Station is a biolog- 

 ical camp and laboratory situated on the 

 Straits of Fuca opposite Cape Flattery and 

 in full view of the Olympic Mountains. The 

 large log living house and the two laboratory 

 buildings are upon the rocky and picturesque 

 shore of the sea, while immediately behind 

 there is the trackless forest of Vancouver 

 Island with scarcely a human habitation. The 

 combination of sea and forest and the absence 

 of any of the distractions of the iowa. make 

 this camp one of the best spots in the country 

 for study, recreation and health, as the hun- 

 dred teachers and students who have visited it , 

 during the last three years can very well at- 

 test. During the season sunny weather is to 

 be expected. There is an absence of noxious 

 insects. One may sleep out of doors by drift- 

 wood fires and there is a sand beach with 

 good bathing. Leisure moments can be oc- 

 cupied in cod or brook trout fishing, or in 

 hunting. 



The laboratories are equipped with micro- 

 scopes and ordinary laboratory apparatus and 

 during the month one can get a very complete 

 introduction to a knowledge of the plants and 

 animals of the shore. The configuration of the 

 coast is favorable to the development of a 

 varied fauna and flora. There are no restric- 

 tions placed upon legitimate collecting, and 

 many of those who have visited the station 

 have brought back large amounts of valuable 

 botanical and zoological material. There are 

 facilities for research and some important 

 work has already been accomplished by mem- 

 bers of previous parties. 



An interesting feature at the station is lec- 

 ture work conducted out of doors at various 

 places within easy walking distance of the 

 camp. Evenings are spent with informal 

 talks upon biological or educational subjects 

 or in song and story, sometimes in the large 

 living room of the camp and sometimes around 

 bonfires or mussel-bakes on the beach. 



The botanical work during 1904 will be im- 

 der the general direction of Professor Con- 

 way MacMillan, who will conduct special 

 laboratory courses upon the ecology and 

 morphology of the kelps and upon the anatomy 

 and classification of the liverworts and mosses 



