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of the London B.Sc. syllabus, and it is most satisfactory to us 

 that all have expressed themselves extremely gratified with the 

 accommodation and material provided for their work. In these cases 

 a full supply of all the living types required, is provided free to all 

 renters of laboratory compartments, and as the rent of these, inclusive 

 of the full use of reagents, microtomes, dissecting dishes, library, &c, 

 varies between the modest sums of 7/6 and 12/6 per week, we 

 scarcely require to emphasize the great boon our Station is to those 

 who elect to make use of it. .Undoubtedly the facilities we offer, are 

 more extensive and lower priced than any to be had elsewhere in 

 this country. We have, at the very doors, a fauna immensely 

 richer and more valuable than that available to any other British 

 Zoological Station. 



A vital necessity to such an establishment as ours is a good 

 reference library, kept well up to date. And this keeping up to date 

 is a weak point with us. Our means — unsupplemented by the 

 Government and local grants so freely given to marine stations well 

 nigh everywhere else but in this belated island of Jersey — are quite 

 inadequate to this strain, and we appeal earnestly to friends to help 

 us in this respect either by the gift of books or pamphlets, or by 

 donations to the library fund. Several gentlemen have been ex- 

 tremely kind in this way. Thus among others — to all of whom we 

 beg to tender our most sincere thanks — Mr. W. Hatchett Jackson 

 has, within the last few days, sent his extremely valuable revision of 

 Prof. Rolleston's " Forms of Animal Life " ; while Mr. Theo. T. Groom 

 has contributed his monograph " On the Early Development of 

 Cirripedia," and the Smithsonian Institution contribute their " Proc. 

 of the U. S. Nat. Museum." To the Editors of " The Journal of 

 Malacology," "The Naturalist," "The British Naturalist," "Knowledge," 

 " Science Gossip," " Neptunia," and several others whom space pre- 

 vents naming, we have also to return thanks for the favour of 

 exchanges. 



As to the future — we have pleasure in announcing that Mr. Theo. 

 T. Groom, our foremost British authority on the Cirripedes, will 

 contribute to our next number a very interesting article of original 

 observations upon the development of the Barnacle (Balanus), 

 while Mr. Ernest H. L. Schwarz will be responsible for an equally 

 important paper on the ancestry of the Octopods, and the close rela- 

 tionship of the fossil Ammonites with this group. " A Naturalist's 

 Year " will, it is hoped, also be commenced either in this or the next 

 following issue. In this will be recorded the breeding times, and 

 occurrence of notable marine animals upon the Jersey coast, with 

 such items of investing interest as may from time to time crop up. 



