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its students with lodging places. For this reason the need of a dormi- 
tory has been seriously felt for the last two years. The Wawepex 
Society has recently decided to erect such a dormitory and this build- 
ing will be begun and finished during the coming spring, so as to be in 
condition for use during the coming session of 1895. The attempt will 
be made to furnish comfortable rooms to students at a very nominal 
price.—H. W. Conn. 
The Biological Survey of Indiana.—Special efforts are now 
being made to make a Biological Survey of the state, the object being: 
(1) To ascertain the character and extent of the life of the state. (2) 
To associate the various workers throughout the state so that they all 
may labor toward the same end. (3) To stimulate the teachers of 
biology to encourage in their students the accumulation of material. 
(4) To secure for the Academy a collection that will illustrate the 
biology of the state. 
Three directors have general charge of this work. Prof. Underwood 
in charge of the botanical division made a very encouraging report of 
the work in that field. The other directors made no report. 
The Academy took an advance step in arranging matters to ask the 
state legislature to publish its Proceedings. Heretofore, the Academy 
has had to meet this expense. 
The Spring meeting of the Academy will be held at the Wyandotte 
Cave in Crawford County.—A. J. BIGNEY, Asst. Sec. 
Summer Course at the University of Pennsylvania.—The 
Department of Biology, in the Summer Meeting of 1895, will be under 
the immediate direction of Dr. William P. Wilson, Professor of Botany 
in the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the newly estab- 
lished Philadelphia Museums. The lectures and laboratory work of 
the courses in the Biological Department have been arranged with a 
view to the needs of teachers in general, and of the teachers of Phila- 
delphia in particular. They will aim to suggest much new material 
for study in the school-room, to give information concerning it, the best 
and most modern methods of using it for nature study, and also such 
technical training in the use of the microscope, ete., as will enable 
those who complete the course to continue their work in the University. 
The lectures in the various courses will be fully illustrated by natural 
objects, charts, diagrams, and by lantern. 
The courses will be elementary, and no special preparation on the 
part of the student will be pre-supposed. Advanced instruction will 
