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The Royal Society of Canada will hold its next Annual 

 General Meeting at Ottawa, during the week commencing 

 May 22nd., under the Presidency of Mr. Benjamin Suite. 



The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl, 

 Mass., will open its eighteenth session on the first of June 

 and continue until the first of October. Twenty private 

 research rooms have been placed at the disposal of the 

 Carnegie Institution, to whose Secretary applications for their 

 occupation should be made. In the Department of Zoology 

 35 private research rooms for investigators, and 20 research 

 tables for beginners who wish to take up problems under the 

 direction of the staff, are at the disposal of the Director to 

 whom applications should be made. In the Department of 

 Botany a certain number of private rooms and research tables 

 are at the disposal of the Director to whom applications should 

 be addressed. The prospectus offers attractive courses in the 

 several departments under the guidance of recognized 

 specialists. 



The Annual Field Day of the Natural History Society 

 will be held this year at Mt. Johnson, Iberville, P. Q., 

 on the 10th of June, leaving the Windsor Street Station at 9 

 o'clock a.m. The rich and diversified flora which clothes the 

 slopes of Mt. Johnson, covers its bold rock faces and fills the 

 ravine cutting across its eastern section ; its peculiar geological 

 structure, now well exposed by quarrying operations ; and the 

 interesting place which it occupies in the group of Monteregian 

 Hills, make it one of the most attractive as well as the most 

 accessible of all the localities the Society has visited in its 

 annual excursions. 



The origin of Amber. The recent discovery of am- 

 ber in the Cretaceous deposits of Staten Island, New York, 



