SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



■ the endowment and 

 >ve recently 



established under the auspices of the Leland Stanford Junior Univer- 

 sity, mention of which was made in the last number of this journal. 

 It is intended to make this a place for original investigation of the 

 habits, life history, structure and development of marine animals and 

 plants and to carry on work here similar to that which has made the 

 aquarium at Naples known all over the world. 



The Hopkins Laboratory will be under the general direction of 

 Profs. Gilbert, Jenkins and Campbell. It will be open during the 

 summer vacation and its facilities will be at the disposal of persons 

 wishing to carry on original investigations in biology as well as of 

 students and teachers interested in that line of subjects. It will be 

 fully provided with aquaria while microscopes, microtomes and other 

 instruments necessary for investigations will be taken from the labora- 

 tories of the University. 



The Botanical Club of San Francisco has 155 members. It holds 

 meetings on the first and third Mondays of each month in the lecture 

 hall of the California Academy of Sciences. The officers for the 

 present year are : President, Dr. Douglass H. Campbell ; Vice Presi- 

 dent, Mrs. S. W. Dennis ; Secretary, Frank H. Voslet Trca urer, 

 Miss A. M. Manning ; Librarian, Mrs. S. W. Burtchaell ; Curator, 

 Miss E. B. Falkenan ; Councillors, Mrs. L. D. Emerson, C. C. Kiedy, 

 and Miss C. H. Hittell. 



The announcement is made that Grevillea, the well-known journal 

 of eryptogamie botany, will cease publication with the close of 

 twentieth volume, unless other hands than those of its present editor, 

 Mr. M. C. Cooke, take it up and carry it on. 



' F. B. Caulfield, an entomologist of Montreal, died in that city 



Dr. Unna offers vearly a prize of Mark 300 for dermatology! 

 essays. This year the subject is "Schwund und Regei 

 elastischen Gewebes der Haut unter verschiedenen pathologischen 



