SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 65 
two persons in this country, Agassiz and Leidy. The former, how- 
ever, was a native of Switzerland, where the special work was done 
for which his prize was awarded. 
The collection of fossils made by Mr. W. E. Gurley, late state 
geologist of Illinois, is for sale. Besides duplicates and unclassified 
material, it contains over 14,000 specimens duly labeled. ` 
René Sand has an interesting review of the marine zoological 
laboratories of the world in the October number of the Revue de 
l’ Université de Bruxelles. He enumerates those of Ostend, Concar- 
neau, Arcachon, Sebastopol, Naples, Roscoff, Wimereux, Penikese, 
Luc-sur-Mer, Trieste, Helder, Kristineberg, Villefranche, Solovetsky, 
Banyuls, St. Andrews, Granton, Tarbert, Puffin Island, Woods Holl, 
Misaki, Marseilles, Dunbar, le Portel, Plymouth, Copenhagen, Ta- 
maris, Rovigno, Tatihou, Port Erin, Helgoland, Bergen, Jersey, False 
Bay, Tromsö, Drobak, Kiel, Flöderig, Millport, Liverpool, Bologna, 
Dieppe, les Sables d’Olonne, Santander, Cette, Messina, Alger, 
Newport, Palo Alto, and Cold Spring Harbor. The list includes 
those in operation as well as those abandoned, but fails to include 
the laboratories at Annisquam, Fort Wool, Beaufort, and the stations 
of the Johns Hopkins University in the West Indies. 
During the past summer there have been a number of scientific 
expeditions sent out by various institutions. We have already alluded 
in these pages to the misfortunes of the zoological expedition sent by 
Columbia University to Puget Sound and Alaska, and the more dis- 
astrous Jamaica laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University. Colum- 
bia University also sent out an expedition for fossils to Colorado and 
Wyoming, under the direction of Prof. Henry F. Osborn, while a 
Princeton University party, under Prof. William Libby, visited New 
Mexico. New York University students, directed by Prof. Charles 
L. Bristol, made large collections in the Bermudas. The University 
of California sent an archzological expedition to the Santa Catalona 
Island, off the coast of southern California, while the ethnological 
party of the American Museum of New York, under the direction of 
Dr. Franz Boas, made large collections among the tribes of British 
Columbia. Cornell University had two parties in the field. One 
studied the geology of the Catskills, while another visited Colorado. 
A party of Stanford University students accompanied President Jor- 
dan to the Pribilov Islands and made large collections there, while 
others continued the work at Monterey. Prof. Frederick Starr, as a 
