SUMMER SCHOOL. 



The second season of the Summer School of the Institute be- 

 gan on April 6. The following announcement on a folder giv- 

 ing a calendar of the spring and summer work brought to the 

 classes enthusiastic workers whose researches meant much for 

 the scientific knowledge of the vicinity : 



"The Summer School, inaugurated last year under the aus- 

 pices of the Institute, was admittedly an experiment, made in 

 the hope of securing to the members the advantages of system- 

 atic and united effort in certain clearly defined branches of na- 

 ture study. The result was so gratifjdng that there was no hes- 

 itation in arranging for a Summer School for the present season 

 on the same general plan, with the few modifications which ex- 

 perience suggested as desirable. 



Such interest has been shown in the study of Vertebrate Zool- 

 ogy at the Institute during the past 3"ear, that it has been deemed 

 best to extend the scope of the work which was last year under- 

 taken by the class in Entomology. This class, in the broader 

 field of Zoology, will attempt to make some study of wild animal 

 life, in whatever form it may be found, in pond and stream, and 

 field and forest — exclusive of the birds, which will, of course, 

 be left as the special field of the class in Ornithology. 



For the present the school will comprise three depart- 

 ments — Zoology, Ornithology^ and Mineralogj^ and Geology. 

 A class in Botany and M5'cology will probably be added later, 

 with special reference to the study of mushrooms and the late 

 flora. There will be practical demonstration in field work, un- 

 der competent instructors, for each class, on alternate Saturdays, 



