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work with the microscope. In addition to the ae eoa 
in zoology by Dr. A. S. Packard and Messrs. C. S. Minot, J. H. 
merton and J. S. Kingsley, a series of afternoon per on 
microscopy will be given by Rev. E. C. Bo lles. Admission fee, 
$20.00; board, $5.00 to $7.00 per week. 
Besides this tempting arrangement, a marine zoological labor- 
atory will be opened June Ist, on the outer shore of Salem Neck, 
under the care of Messrs. Emerton and Minot, in a position most 
favorable for the study and collection of marine plants and 
animals. The cost will be $20.00 per month, and students can 
conveniently attend the Summer School of Biology. at Salem. 
SoirEES.—The annual meeting of the Buffalo Microscopical 
Club, at Goodrich Hall in that city, terminated in a soirée and 
exhibition of microscopic objects. A large variety of popu- 
ar and interesting objects were shown under nearly twenty micro- 
scopes, to the universal gratification of the large audience. Dr. 
Geo. E. Blackham, of Dunkirk, and Chas. E. Fuller, of James- 
town, assisted the local members in the entertainment of the 
evening. 
The microscopical section of the Troy Scientific Association 
and a large party of invited guests were entertained at the resi- 
dence of the chairman of the section, Dr. R. H. Ward, on the 
occasion of the annual soirée on the evening of March 4th. The 
_ microscopes, over thirty in number and many of them first-class 
=~ instruments, were arranged on tables in different parts of the 
house, and the objects were classified in a strictly natural manner, 
each table with its group of instruments being used to illustrate 
some one field in the study of nature. By substituting this plan 
for the want of method which is generally allowed to result from 
promptly notwithstanding the large crowd in attendance. e 
soirée was the largest and most enthusiastic meeting ever held by 
the section. 
ExcHANGEs.—Wanted, some well-posted a to give the 
correct names of diatoms (arranged) on a few slides in exchange 
for the slides. C. M. Vorce, 164 Lake'street, Cleveland, Ohio. 
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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— A paper has been recently published in the Pean Monthly 
Magazine by William Blasius of Philadelphia, in which he criticizes 
the methods of meteorological investigation usually adopted. 
e, however, commends those. employed | y Prof. Loomis, of Yale 
College, but asserts that they have been mostly derived from his 
Own previously issued publications. 
