NEWS. 
THE German Society of Naturforscher und Artze meets this year at 
Aachen from the 17th to the 21st of September. 
Mr. Dean C. Worcester has resigned his position as assistant pro- 
fessor of zodlogy in Michigan University, to accept his appointment 
as member of the new Philippine Commission. 
Dr. Th. M. Fries, professor of botany in the University of Upsala, 
has retired. 
The British Association for the Advancement of Science meets 
this year at Bradford, beginning September 5, under the presidency 
of Sir William Turner. 
An International Congress of General Botany is to be held in 
Paris from the rst to the roth of next October. The Congress 
will be under the auspices of the government in connection with 
the Exposition. 
The Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, announces the eleventh 
season of summer instruction in natural history. 
Professor C. B. Davenport will have for his staff: Professor H. S. 
Pratt, comparative anatomy ; Professor C. P. Sigerfoos, embryology ; 
S. R. Williams, zoólogy ; Gertrude C. Davenport and W. L. Tower, 
microscopic methods ; Dr. D. S. Johnson, cryptogamic botany ; Dr. 
H. C. Cowles, phanerogamic botany ; W. C. Coker, botany; Pro- 
fessor N. S. Davis, bacteriology; Dr. H. A. Kelly, nature study ; 
W. H. C. Pynchon, photography. The laboratory will be open from 
July 2 to August 25. Correspondence should be addressed to Pro- 
fessor Franklin Hooper, 5o2 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, or to Professor 
C. B. Davenport, University of Chicago. 
The Ohio State University announces a course of study for the 
summer of 1900 at its Lake Laboratory, at Sandusky, Lake Erie. 
Four courses are offered in zoology and three courses in botany. 
The staff consists of Professor H. Osborn, zodlogy and entomol- 
ogy; Assistant Professor Jas. S. Hine, entomology; F. L. Landacre, 
zodlogy ; Professor W. A. Kellerman, botany; Assistant Professor 
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