994 The American Naturalist. [October, 
more were conducting original investigations. Some of the results of 
the work done will be published at an early date. 
During the summer the laboratory purchased four additional lots of 
land just north of the premises of the U. S. Fish Commission. On 
one lot there is a dwelling-house, which will be used in future for a 
mess-house for students and instructors. It is proposed to move the 
present laboratory to another of these new lots; while on a third, 
when funds warrant, it is proposed to erect a permanent station at 
which work can be carried on throughout the year. As a result of 
these expansions, the laboratory concludes the year with a deficit, but 
one which is not so large as to occasion serious worry. It is desired, 
however, to obtain as much aid as possible, and the trustees feel that 
all the funds should not come from Boston. So far but about one-fifth 
of all the students have come from Massachusetts ; while, on the other 
hand, Boston has contributed over ninety per cent. of all the funds. 
The Western Society of Naturalists will hold its annual meeting this 
year in the buildings of Purdue University, at Lafayette, Indiana, 
November 12th and 13th. Dr. C. E. Bessey, the retiring president, 
will deliver the annual address. A feature of the meeting will be the 
discussion of natural science as a requirement for admission to college. 
The secretary of the society is Dr. J. S. Kingsley, of Lincoln, Nebraska. 
Howard Evarts Weed, M.Sc., recently a graduate student of the 
Michigan Agricultural College, has been appointed entomologist and 
horticulturist of the Mississippi Experiment Station. 
Professor S. A. Forbes spent the summer in the Yellowstone Park 
investigating fish food conditions for the U. S. Fish Commission. 
Mr. A. B. Cordley, of the Michigan Agricultural College, has been 
appointed entomologist of the Vermont Experiment Station. 
At the recent meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricul- 
tural Science, Dr. C. E. Bessey was re-elected president, and Prof. W. 
R. Lazenby secretary, while Prof. H. W. Wiley was elected to the 
executive committee. "The following gentlemen were elected members 
of the Society: Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University ; Professors 
Chas. S. Plumb and W. E. Stone, of Purdue University, and Prof. 
B. E. Fernow, of the U. S. Forestry Division. 
| The cotton worm has been recently receiving attention at the hands 
of Messrs, G. C. Davis and F. W, Malley, the former for the Arkansas Ex- 
periment Station, and the latter for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
L. H. Dewey, recently of the Michigan Experiment Station, has 
been appointed an assistant in the U. S. Division of Botany. 
