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It is lined with pitch pine, and provided with all the necessary 

 apparatus for research. The walls are shelved for specimen jars, 

 whilst the open rafters afford storage-room for dredges, tow-nets, 

 ropes, &c. A strong table runs down the centre of the laboratory 

 for aquaria, and books, microscopes and other apparatus are con- 

 veniently stored in set-in cupboards fitted to the walls. Fresh water 

 is collected from a natural spring in a cistern behind the station, 

 and supplied to the work-tables within by a tap. Salt water is of 

 course close at hand. From the short passage leading from the 

 entrance open off two small rooms, six feet by eight, one of which 

 forms a Secretary's office, the other a private laboratory for the 

 Director and members of the Committee. Naturalists who may 

 wish to work at the station may do so on application to the Hon. 

 Director (Prof. Herdman, F.E.S.), University College, Liverpool, 

 on becoming subscribers to the funds of the station to the extent of 

 £1 Is. and upwards per annum. Special arrangements have been 

 made with the proprietor of the Bellevue Hotel, Port Erin, on 

 whose grounds the station is built, whereby naturalists working at 

 the station can be provided with bed and board at a tariff of 6s.°6d. 

 per day. Early application for permission to work in the laboratory 

 is essential. 



We regret that space will not allow us to give a detailed sketch 

 of the life of Prof. Sereno Watson, whose death we briefly recorded 

 at p. 128. Full notices will be found in the Bulletin of the Torrsu 

 Club for April, and in the liotanical Gazette for May. From the 

 latter notice, by Prof. J. M. Coulter, which is accompanied by an 

 excellent portpiit of Prof. Watson, and a view of the interior of the 

 Gray Herbarium, we extract the following summary : — " Sereno 

 Watson was born December 1, 1826, at East Windsor Hill, Con- 

 necticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1847 ; taught school 

 for several years in different States ; studied medicine at the 

 University of New York ; was a practising physician for two years 

 at Quincy, Illinois; was Secretary of the Planters' Insurance 

 Company, of Greensboro', Alabama, from 1856 to 1861 ; became a 

 professional botanist in 1868; was Botanist of Clarence King's 

 U.S. Geological Survey during the seasons of 1868 and 1869; 

 became Prof. Gray's assistant at Cambridge in 1871 ; and was 

 made Curator of the Gray Herbarium and Library in 1888, a 

 position which he held at the time of his death, March 9, 1892. M 



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tributions to the topographical Botany of the West of Scotland, by 

 Mr. Peter Ewing, who also contributes an interesting note' on 

 Juncus tenuis. This plant, although not then recognised, was 

 collected in Renfrewshire in 1863, and a specimen is preserved in 

 the Greenock Museum. 



Dr. F* Buchanan White publishes an interesting address on the 

 Perthshire Flora in the last part (vol. i., part v.) of the Proceeding 

 of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science. The previous part 



