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The building consists of two stories: the lower for students receiving 
instruction, the upper exclusively for investigators. The laboratory 
as aquaria supplied with running sea water, boats, collecting appar- 
atus, and dredges; it will also be supplied with reagents, glassware, 
and a limited number of microtomes and microscopes. By the muni- 
ficence of friends the library will be provided henceforth not only with 
the ordinary text-books and works of reference, but also with the more 
important journals of zoology and botany, some of them in complete 
series. 
The laboratory for investigators will be open from June 2d to August 
goth. It will be fully equipped with aquaria, glassware, reagents, etc., 
but microscopes and microtomes will not be provided. There are 
fourteen private laboratories supplied with aquaria, running water, 
etc., for the exclusive use of investigators who are invited to carry on 
their researches here free of charge. Those who are prepared to begin 
original work, but require supervision, special suggestions, criticism, 
or extended instruction in technique, may occupy tables in the general 
laboratory for investigators, paying ‘for the privileges a fee of fifty dol- 
ars. The number of such tables is limited to ten. Applicants for 
them should state precisely what they have done in preparation for 
original work, and whether they can bring a complete outfit, viz. : 
microscope, microtome, camera-lucida, etc. 
The laboratory for students will be opened on Wednesday, July gth, 
for regular courses of seven weeks in Marine Zoology and Botany, an 
Microscopical Technique. It is desired that students owning micro- 
scopes or microtomes should bring them, and applicants for admission 
should state whether this requirement can be complied with. The fee 
for workers in this department is twenty-five dollars, payable in ad- 
vance. The number of students will be limited to thirty, and prefer- 
ence will be given to teachers or others already qualified. By permis- 
sion of the Director, students may begin their individual work as early 
as June 15th, without extra charge, but the regular courses of instruc- 
tion will not begin before July 9th. In addition to the regular courses 
of instruction, consisting of lectures and laboratory work under the 
direct and constant supervision of the instructors, there will be two or 
more courses of lectures on special subjects by members of the staff. 
One such courses of six lectures will be given by Dr. McMurrich o on 
the Hydrozoa. Similar courses on the Crustacea and Echinoderms wi 
be given by Prof. Kingsley and Dr. Rankin. There will also be ten 
or more evening lectures on biological subjects of general interest. 
The first of these will be given by Dr. Whitman on July oth. 
