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ship of plant physiology and applied botany in the Henry Shaw 

 School of Botany at Washington University at St. Louis. 



The Marine Biological Laboratory, situated at Woods Hole, 

 Mass., gives the usual six-week courses beginning June 30. The 

 courses in botany are in morphology and taxonomy ; each course 

 requires the full time of the student; the fee is $50. The 

 laboratory is open the entire summer to investigators. 



Professor George L. Goodale, of Harvard University, with 

 which institution he has been connected for more than thirty 

 years, will retire this June from active service. Mr. Oakes 

 Ames, for several years actively connected with the Harvard 

 Botanical Garden, has, since the resignation of Professor Goodale, 

 been made director of the Garden. 



The George Washington Memorial Association is initiating a 

 movenitint to erect in Washington a great memorial building in 

 recognition of George Washington's expressed desire to promote 

 institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. The building 

 "will contain a great hall or auditorium and rooms for large 

 congresses" besides "rooms for small and large meetings, office 

 rooms and students' research rooms."" 



A James Fletcher memorial fund is being collected by the 

 Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. The suggestions as to the form 

 it shall take are a fountain, a statue, and a bust or portrait in 

 appropriate places in Ottawa, and a bursary at some Canadian 

 University. Contributions may be sent to the Secretary-Treas- 

 urer of the memorial committee, Mr. Arthur Gibson, Central 

 Experiment Farm, Ottawa. 



The University of Colorado is going to establish a Summer 

 laboratory for botany and zoology at Tolland, Colorado. The 

 laboratory will be in charge of the regular instructing staff of the 

 university, and there will be courses in elementary biology, plant 

 anatomy, plant taxonomy, and ecology. The location of the 

 laboratory, altitude 8,889 ^^^^> ^^^^ allow students to study con- 

 veniently the plants and animals of all the different life zones from 

 plains to alpine heights. 



