608 The American Naturalist. [June, 
from Providence, Fall River, or New Bedford. Rooms accommodating 
.two persons may be obtained near the laboratory at prices varying 
from $1.00 to $3.00 a week, and board from $4.00 to $6.00. Board 
will be supplied to members at The Homestead at $5.00 a week. 
The location of the Laboratory at Wood’s Hole, gives it exceptional 
advantages for study and research. The shore is varied by necks, 
points, flats, gutters, holes, bays and islands; there are numerous fresh- 
water ponds and lakes in the vicinity ; there is no muddy river or city 
sewerage to pollute the sea-water; the fauna and flora are exceptionally 
rich; the climate is especially favorable for summer work, and the 
place is free from the inconveniences'and distractions of fashionable 
-summer resorts. 
The Laboratory consists of. four two-story buildings, with forty 
private rooms for the exclusive use of investigators, and seven general 
laboratories. Itis supplied with aquaria, collecting apparatus, reagents, 
glassware, and a limited. number of microtomes and microscopes for 
use in the introductory courses. The investigators’ rooms are furnished 
with glassware and reagents, but not with microscopes and microtomes. 
No alcohol is supplied beyond what is allowed for the work done in 
the laboratories ; and expensive reagents, such as osmic acid and gold 
-chloride, are not included in the list of free reagents. The laboratory 
has a steam launch, boats, dredges, and all the apparatus necessary for 
collecting and keeping alive material reserved for class work or re- 
searc. 
The library is provided a many works of reference and the more 
important journals of zoology and botany, some of them in complete 
series, Members of the Laboratory are allowed the use of books from 
the Library of the Boston Society of Natural History, through the 
courtesy of the Curator and the Librarian. 
A department of laboratory supply has been established in order to 
facilitate the work of teachers and others at a distance, who desire to 
-obtain material for study or for class instruction. Certain sponges, 
hydroids, star-fishes, sea-urchins, marine worms, crustaceans, mollusks, 
vertebrates and marine plants are generally kept in stock, though 
larger orders should be filed some time before the material is needed. 
Circulars giving information, prices, etc., may be obtained on paros 
tion. 
Bowdoin College Summer Courses in Science.—Beginning 
July 9, 1895, and continuing for five weeks, the following courses in 
science will be conducted by instructors in Bowdoin College at the 
