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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 487. 



The soil is very porous, so that there are 

 no streams, all the fresh water used in the 

 islands being rain water caught on white- 

 washed stone roofs and stored in covered cis- 

 terns. Endemic malaria and tropical fevers 

 are unknown. The roads are excellent, and 

 bicycles are much used. 



The marine fauna and flora are abundant 

 and such as are characteristic of coral reefs. 

 The experience of last summer shows that 

 there are available for study a great many 

 varieties of marine forms, and that most of 

 them occur in great abundance. The plan 

 adopted in 1903 of recording the precise lo- 

 cality in which different organisms were 

 found will greatly aid the investigator in 

 procuring such material as he may desire. 



Bermuda is reached in about sixty hours 

 from New York by the vessels of the Quebec 

 S. S. Co., which leave pier No. 47, North 

 Eiver, foot of West Tenth Street. During 

 June, July and August, S. S. Trinidad is 

 scheduled to sail from New York on the fol- 

 lowing dates : June 4, June 18, July 2, July 

 16, July 30, August 13 ; and returning to leave 

 Hamilton, Bermuda, on June 11, June 25, 

 July 9, July 23, August 6, August 20 and 

 September 3. 



By special arrangements with the Quebec 

 S. S. Co., and the Hotel Frascati, the total 

 expense of transportation from New York and 

 return, and for board and lodging — but not 

 washing — for six weeks at Bermuda, will be 

 one hundred dollars. Board and lodging in 

 excess of the period of six weeks will be 

 charged for at the rate of ten dollars per 

 week, but no arrangement will be made for 

 a period of less than six weeks. This price 

 is based on the understanding that two per- 

 sons will occupy a room together. The pay- 

 ment of one hundred dollars entitles the ap- 

 plicant to the privileges of the laboratory and 

 ample facilities for collecting and studying 

 the animals and plants of the coral reefs, 

 lagoons and shores. 



The laboratory is a new and well-constructed 

 building, and is furnished with all the ordin- 

 ary glassware, reagents and apparatus pro- 

 vided in modern marine laboratories; but 

 microscopes, dissecting instruments, slides and 



coverglasses are not supplied by the station. 

 The means of collecting include a steam 

 launch forty-five feet long and crew, a fish- 

 well sailboat and crew, row-boats, a two-horse 

 carriage carrying ten or twelve persons, nets, 

 seins, water glasses, towing and dredging ap- 

 paratus, etc. 



The postoffice address of the station is 

 Flatts, Bermuda. 



Zoologists and botanists who desire to take 

 advantage of the opportunities offered by the 

 station should send apjjlications as early as 

 possible, and not later than June 1, either to 

 Professor E. L. Mark, 109 Irving Street, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., or to Professor C. L. Bristol, 

 New York University, University Heights, 

 New York City. Applicants not ofiicially con- 

 nected with any scientific institution, or with 

 any university or college in the capacity of 

 instructors, should send letters of endorse- 

 ment from those under whom they have 

 studied. Applications should in all cases state 

 the nature of the work proposed, and if pos- 

 sible the precise problem or problems contem- 

 plated. It will be possible in some cases to 

 provide the use of books and monographs, if 

 applicants indicate those which they desire 

 but can not themselves procure. It should be 

 understood that the opportunities offered are 

 for investigations and that no formal instruc- 

 tion will be given. Each application should 

 be accompanied with the sum of fifty dollars. 

 If the application is accepted, a ticket and 

 state-room assignment will be promptly for- 

 warded to the applicant. Otherwise the fifty 

 dollars will be returned. The remaining fifty 

 dollars is to be paid upon arrival at Bermuda. 

 No reduction from the sum named (one hun- 

 dred dollars) can be made for any cause. 



The date of sailing from New York is July 

 2. If a change in this date is necessitated by 

 any change in the schedule of the Quebec S. 

 S. Co., timely notice will be sent to every 

 applicant. 



Biologists who intend to take away from 

 Bermuda collections, should ship to Bermuda 

 their own alcohol, formol and cans for trans- 

 porting specimens. Tax-free alcohol can be 

 exported from the United States, a certificate 

 of landing in Bermuda being all that will be 



