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SCIENCE. 



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The laboratorj' is housed in the former State 

 Hatchery building which has been arranged 

 with tables, dark room, aquaria, etc., and is 

 supplied with microscopes and other apparatus 

 from the university. Boats, collecting appara- 

 tus, dredges, seines, etc., are well supplied and 

 special attention will be given to the methods 

 of collecting and field work. 



The courses of instruction will open July 2d, 

 and run eight weeks. Five days each week 

 will be devoted to regular exercises and one 

 day left open for individual or special excur- 

 sions. 



Following the plan which has been in opera- 

 tion for several years past, the laboratory will 

 be open to properly qualified persons who may 

 desire to engage in investigations of biological 

 problems pertaining to the life of the locality. 

 No fees will be charged and table room, use of 

 ordinary reagents, boats, aquaria, etc., will be 

 supplied, subject only to such provisions as may 

 be necessary to make the facilities equally 

 available to all. Each investigator will be ex- 

 pected to furnish his own microscope, cutting 

 instruments, and special apparatus or reagents 

 needed in his investigation unless otherwise ar- 

 ranged. 



The laboratory will be open for investigators 

 from June 15th to September 15th. Applica- 

 tions for table room should be made as early as 

 possible with indication of the time during 

 which space will be desired. 



'SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The bill for the establishment of a govern- 

 ment biological station on the coast of North 

 Carolina has become a law. The sum of $12,- 

 500 is appropriated for the construction and 

 equipment of the station, which, it is under- 

 stood, will be located on Beaufort Harbor. 



The Senate Committee has made a report on 

 the Nicaragua Canal bill, favoring the provision 

 by Congress of money to construct the canal 

 after having secured authority from Nicaragua. 

 The proposition to buy the works by the French 

 on the Panama route was rejected. 



The House Committee has submitted a favor- 

 able report on the measure now before Congress 



designed to prevent the adulteration, misbrand- 

 ing and imitation of foods and drugs. The bill 

 would create a chemical bureau under the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



A COMPLIMENTABY dinner was given on May 

 15th to Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cor- 

 nell University, by his associates and pupils in 

 the department of physical chemistry. The 

 occasion was the fifth anniversary of the in- 

 auguration of the department. Speeches were 

 made by Professor E. L. Nichols, Professor J. E. 

 Trevor, and others ; and many messages of con- 

 gratulation were received from friends and old 

 associates of Professor Bancroft in other univer- 

 sities. 



Peofessoe C. a. Young, director of the Hal- 

 sted Observatory, Princeton University, will 

 give a commencement oration at Western Re- 

 serve University. Professor Young was pro- 

 fessor at Western Reserve University before 

 going to Dartmouth and Princeton. During the 

 commencement there is to be an informal open- 

 ing of the new telescope, which has been given 

 to the university by Mrs. W. R. Warner and 

 Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland. 



Dr. Eduaedo Wilde, the new minister to the 

 United States from Argentina, was formerly 

 minister of Public Instruction and is known for 

 his studies in yellow fever. 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott, curator of the ornitho- 

 logical collections of Princeton University, has 

 returned from a visit abroad where he has been 

 studying the ornithological collections in Lon- 

 don and Paris with a view to his monograph 

 on the Patagonian birds collected by Mr. J. B. 

 Hatcher. 



A DINNER was given in London on April 28th 

 to Sir W. MacCormac and Mr. Trevors to cele- 

 brate the occasion of their return from South 

 Africa. 



James M. Constable, Vice-President of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, died on 

 May 12th, at the age of eighty-eight. Mr. Con- 

 stable was born at Stonington, Sussex, Eng- 

 land, but came to New York in 1836. 



The death is announced at the age of 77 

 years of Professor Wenzel Hecke, formerly a 



