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by the authors and translators, has been completed by Drs. Mark 

 and Woodworth, and is being printed by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 

 of London and Macmillan & Co. of New York. 



Dr. Parker has completed a memoir on The Retina and Optic 

 Ganglia in Astacus, which will be published in the Mittheilungen 

 a. d. Zool. Station zu Neapel. 



A paper by Dr. Davenport and W. E. Castle, on The Acclima- 

 tization of Organisms to high Temperatures, is nearly completed. 



The funds hitherto employed in publishing the Contributions 

 from the Zoological Laboratory are not now available for that pur- 

 pose. The Department is therefore in need of immediate aid for 

 this object, to avoid the necessity of sending the Contributions to 

 foreign journals, or to those in America which are conducted in 

 the interests of other Universities. Although we still need as 

 much as ever aquaria and vivaria, this unexpected deprivation of 

 the means of publication is of far greater importance. No more 

 efficient aid could be rendered to the Department of Zoology at pres- 

 ent than the establishment of a fund to provide for the publication 

 of researches carried on in the Zoological Laboratories. 



