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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. 19. 



paronj'my was approved by the Committee 

 on Biological Ifomenclature iu the Report 

 adopted by the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, August, 1892. 



Naturally the application of the principle 

 has been easier with the French and Italian 

 than with the German. Yet nearly all 

 recent works in this language contain paro- 

 nyms either unchanged (excepting for 

 capitalization), e. g., Dura, or with slight 

 changes, e. g., Hipiyohamp for hippocampus. 



The last example of Gex-manization to 

 come under my notice is in Eisler's ' Das 

 Gefass- und periphere Nervensystem des 

 Gorilla," where the customary heteronym, 

 Herzheutel, is abandoned for the regular paro- 

 nym of j^;e7'ica7'rfMW)i, Perikarcl. Curiously 

 enough in English we have hitherto re- 

 tained the useless termination, but analogy 

 with pericarp (from ]->eriearinimi) not only 

 warrants but demands the abbreviated form, 

 pericard. Burt G. Wilder. 



Ithaca, N. Y. 



THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABOBATOBY. 



The annual announcement of the ' Ma- 

 rine Laboratory' for the eighth season, 

 1895, has recently appeared. 



The ofl&cers are as follows : Dr. C. 0. 

 Whitman, Director, Head Professor of Zo- 

 ology, Universitjr of Chicago, and editor of 

 t\\e> Journal of Morphplogxj ; Dr. H. C. Bumpus, 

 Assistant Director, Professor of Compara- 

 tive Anatomj', Brown University. 



•ZOOLOGY. 



A. Investigation. Howard Ayers, Pro- 

 fessor of Biologj', University of the State of 

 Missouri ; E. G. Conklin, Professor of Bi- 

 ology, Northwestern University ; S. AVatase, 

 Assistant Professor of Zoology, University 

 of Chicago ; M. M. Metcalf, Professor of Bi- 

 ology, The Woman's College of Baltimore ; 

 C. M. Child, Fellow in Zoology, University 

 of Chicago; F. E. Lillie, Instructor iu Zo- 

 ology, University of Michigan ; 0. S. Strong, 

 Instructor in Zoology, Columbia College ; 



H. S. Brode, Fellow in Zoologj', University 

 of Chicago. 



B. Instruction. W. M. Eankin, Instruc- 

 tor in Zoology, Princeton College ; J. L. 

 Kellogg, Professor of Biologj-, Olivet Col- 

 lege ; P. A. Fish, Instructor in Physiology 

 and Anatomy, Cornell Universitj' ; A. D. 

 Mead, Fellow in Zoology, University of 

 Chicago; H. E. Walter, Chicago. 



BOTANY. 



W. A. Setchell, Instructor in Botany, 

 Yale Universitj- ; W. J. V. Osterhout, In- 

 structor in Botany, Brown University. 



PHYSIOLOGY. 



Jacques Loeb, Associate Professor of 

 Physiology, University of Cliicago; W. N. 

 Norman, Professor of Biology, University of 

 Texas. 



The work of the laboratorj'- is definitely or- 

 ganized ^^ith reference to the needs of tlu-ee 

 classes of workers, namely, (1) students, (2) 

 teachers of science, and (3) investigators. 

 There are regular courses of instruction, con- 

 sisting of lectures and laboratory work under 

 the supervision of the instructors, given in 

 Zoologj', Botany, Embrj'ology and Physi- 

 ology. In addition to these, there will be 

 courses of lectures on special subjects as fol- 

 lows: Embryology, by the Director, Pro- 

 fessor CO. Whitman; on Botanical Museum 

 Development, bj' J. M. McFarlane, and on 

 Matter and Energy, by E. A. Dolbear. 



There will also be evening lectm-es on 

 biological subjects of general interest. 

 Among those who contribute these lectures 

 may be mentioned: G. F. Atkinson, E. G. 

 Conklin, Northwestern University; J. M. 

 Coulter, President Lake Forest University; 

 A. E. Dolbear, Tuft's College; Simon Flex- 

 ner, John Hopkins Hospital; E. 0. Jordan, 

 University of Chicago; William Libbey, Jr., 

 Princeton College; F. S. Lee, Columbia Col- 

 lege; W. A. Loey, Lake Forest University; 

 J. M. MacFarlaue, University of Pennsj^l- 

 vania; C. S. Minot, HarvardMedical School; 



