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Associate in Biology and Assistant Professor of Comparative 
Anatomy, will be in immediate charge as director. 
he Laboratory is provided with a steam launch ; small boats, 
nets, dredges, aquaria, microscopes, reagents, and a small reference 
library are also supplied by the University, for their use. Those 
admitted to the Laboratory will be charged a fee of $25. 
he Marine Laboratory is designed for advanced students and 
for those qualified to carry on original investigation. No definite 
courses of instruction will be given, as the persons received will 
be presumed to have sufficient knowledge to carry on their studies 
without such aid. Dr. Brooks will, however, exercise a genera 
Supervision, and control and direct the daily work of the Labora- 
tory. Board and lodging may be obtained in the town of Beau 
fort near the Laboratory, for from $20 to $30 per month. 
— That germs of disease may live long, seems to be proved 
by recent experiments of a French Committee directed by M. 
Pasteur. Seven sheep were led daily, for a few hours, to a piece 
of ground where some animals that died of anthracoid disease, or 
charbon, had been buried twelve years previously. Two of them 
caught the disease and died. There was no grass for the sheep 
sore of malignant pustule (the same kind of disease) on his own 
face. . Pasteur supposes that if the vegetables eaten had not 
been cooked, there might have been a different tale. The disease, 
too, might be communicated by the agency of insects, etc.— 
English Mechanic. 
— Pasteur has found on taking fowl cholera poison from a _ 
a fowl which has died, not of acute but of chronic disease, and 
cultivating this in several solutions of fowl-broth, that on transferring 
Virulence in the passage. However, experiments made by varying 
the length of the periods of time during which the solutions are left 
intact, after having the parasite added to them, show that the time 
sowed for its development is an important element in the ques- 
tion, 
oy The Kansas Academy of Science, at their November meet- 
‘98, appointed a Commission to memorialize the Legislature in 
