234 The American Naturalist. [March, 
school at Cold Spring Harbor received its first public scientific 
recognition by the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. This Association, on one of the excursions taken 
by it during its session at Brooklyn the past summer, went to 
Cold Spring Harbor, and a large party interested in biological 
work visited the laboratory. The appreciation of the Asso- 
ciation for the character of the work done was shown by an 
appropriation to the school for aiding in original investiga- 
tions. This money is to be used to pay for the rental of two 
private rooms to be known as American Association tables, 
and, as announced elsewhere in this magazine, these tables are 
open for application to all students of American biology. 9 
The school of Cold Spring Harbor has a field foritself. The 
growing importance of biological work in our schools is creat- 
ing yearly an increasing demand for facilities for summer 
work. The modern teacher is fast learning that he cannot 
hold his own in zoological or botanical lines without op- 
portunities of practical work with living animals and plants; 
and these opportunities can be had only at the sea shore itself. 
` There is, therefore, a growing number of teachers who are 
desirous of spending their summers in adding to their equip- 
ment for such work. A growing number of students are re- 
cognizing, that, in order to take their stand in the front ranks 
in our educational communities, a summer or two or more at 
a marine laboratory is becoming as inevitable a necessity as a 
college education itself. This growing demand is not to be 
met by one or two schools, but will necessitate in the future the 
establishment of many institutions of public instruction. The 
school at Cold Spring Harbor, by placing emphasis upon this 
matter of public instruction to teachers and students, has 
obtained a place for itself. Its continued success and its con- 
stant growth during its history prophecies well for its future 
and promises that it will remain as one of the permanent 
institutions of public education in America. 
