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sons of small attendance. The Endow- 
ment Fund now amounts to over $3,500 
and has been carefully husbanded, but it 
should be increased to at least $50,000. 
And the special funds, the Lucretia Crock- 
er Fund for Scholarships and the Library 
Fund, may profitably be added to. 
One effect of the recent changes in the 
By-laws will be, or may be, to diminish the 
special interest in and sense of responsi- 
bility for the Laboratory heretofore shown 
in the city of Boston and its immediate 
vicinity, to which, as is well known, the 
institution owes its initial impulse and 
much continuous and generous support. 
In appealing, as they do now, to a wider 
constituency, the Trustees are in no wise 
unmindful of the debt which the cause of — 
science and of sound learning owes to this 
intelligent and kindly support in the past, 
some of which support, as they are assured, 
will hereafter be extended, with unwearied 
generosity, from the same locality. The 
Laboratory now looks to the country at 
large for its main sources of income and 
upon all the corporate members, in whose 
hands the recent changes have placed the 
entire control, rests the correlative duty of 
supporting the work. With power comes 
responsibility. 
The Trustees, therefore, have decided to 
raise the annual dues of members of the 
Corporation to two dollars ($2.00). The 
fiscal year now begins on the second Tues- 
day in August, and this sum is due for 
the year ending August 9, 1898. Members 
ofthe Corporation will kindly forward it, to- 
gether with all back dues, to the Treasurer, 
D. Blakeley Hoar, 220 Devonshire St., Bos- 
ton, Mass. 
For the reasons given above, the Trustees 
also appeal to the members of the Corpora- 
tion to send with their annual dues such 
further sums, however small, as the means 
and interest of each in the work may in- 
spire. All contributions will be duly noted 
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in the annual report which is in course of 
preparation and will be issued early in the 
coming year. A contribution of not less 
than $100 entitles the donor to a life mem- 
bership, exempt from annual dues, or, at his 
option, to nominate a person to occupy a 
private room in the Laboratory, free of 
charge, during one season. A contribution 
of $50 entitles the donor to a free scholar- 
ship, exempt from tuition fees, during one 
season. Contributions of smaller amounts 
will be gratefully received and duly ac- 
knowledged. 
The forthcoming report will show fully 
all the recent changes in the organic law of 
the Association, and will be sent to all 
members in good standing. 
By order of the Trustees, 
Heyry F. Oszorn, President, 
H. C. Bumpus, Secretary, 
D. Buaxetry Hoar, Treasurer, 
C. O. Wurrman, Director. 
Epwarp G. GARDINER, Chairman 
of Executive Committee, 
James J. Peck, Assistant Director, 
Executive Committee, 
Camittus G. Kipper, Hvecutive 
Committee. 
All matters relating to scientific adminis- 
tration should be addressed to Professor C. 
O. Whitman, University of Chicago, Chi- 
cago, Ill. All applications for membership, 
to the Secretary, Professor H. C. Bumpus, 
Brown University, Providence, R. I. All 
dues and subscriptions, to the Treasurer, 
D. Blakeley Hoar, 220 Devonshire St., Bos- 
ton, Mass. 
A NEW LABORATORY DISH. 
In the laboratory of the college we use 
for routine work the paraffin method al- 
most exclusively. The blocks of tissue are 
infiltrated in the usual manner, and the 
sections cut with the Ryder or Minot micro- 
tome. The student cuts his sections and 
fastens them on to the slide by means of Ole- 
