- 136 The American Naturalist. [February, 
mittee was appuinted by the parent Society of Naturalists to suggest to 
the society some measures looking toward a combined organization, 
so that future cooperation might be assured. Such a combination 
would hold a winter meeting corresponding to the summer meeting of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with the 
difference that it would consist of professional naturalists only. 
—Tue Smithsonian Institution has been requested by a petition 
signed by a large number of American naturalists and by a resolution 
of the American Society of Naturalists, to pay for the support of a 
table at the Naples Marine Biological laboratory to be occupied by . 
American students. It would seem that such an appropriation of 
money is within the objects of the Institution as defined by the will of 
Smithson. As a school for original investigators, the Naples Labora- 
tory has been, and doubtless will continue to be, of the greatest utility. , 
