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summer of the Dominion of Canada laboratory at Cansa, Nova 

 Scotia, which i? under the direction of Professor Prince. Many 

 investigators were in attendance, among them Professor Ramsay 

 Wright, of Toronto. Dr. Linville's work, upon the natural his- 

 tory of annelids, was continued later at Woods Holl. 



Dr. G. N. Calkins reported upon the work at the W^oods 

 Holl station of the United States Fish Commission, in charge of 

 the Scientific Director, Dr. Hugh M. Smith. Dr. Calkins' 

 work consisted of a survey of the protozoa of the waters of the 

 station, and also included a continuation of his experiments 

 upon senile degeneration in Paraniaxiiun. A paper on this 

 subject will be presented at an early date. 



Professor F. E. Lloyd spoke of his cytological studies carried 

 on during the spring in Strasburger's laboratory at Bonn. A 

 series of botanizing trips in Germany and Switzerland was also 

 described, as well as the meeting of the International Congress 

 of Botanists at Geneva. 



Mr. J. C. Torrey, who spent the summer at the Beaufort, N. 

 C, station of the U. S. Fish Commission, reported a successful 

 season. He obtained a further series of the eggs of Thalasseuia, 

 enabling him to carry forward his work upon the cytogeny of 

 this form. 



Dr. A. G. Mayer described the results of dredgings in the 

 waters of Massachusetts Bay, carried on by him, with Dr. 

 Gerould of Dartmouth. Besides collecting considerable mu- 

 seum material for the Brooklyn Institute, he obtained extensive 

 data bearing upon variation in star fishes. 



Mr. W. E. Kellicott spoke of the summer's work at the Cold 

 Spring Harbor laborator\-, where he had been a John D. Jones 

 scholar. A good attendance was reported. 



Professor 0. L. Bristol, who had again conducted the work 

 of the N. Y. University Laboratory at Bermuda, described an 

 interesting change in the distribution of many species as the re- 

 sult of a protracted winter's storm. Forms previously scarce 

 or absent from the shores of the bay near the laboratory ap- 

 peared this summer in profusion, while large areas of the ex- 

 posed reefs, or ** flats " were swept bare. 



