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information in regard to this department may be had by addressing 
Professor Hermon.C. Bumpus, Woods Holl, Mass., to whom applica- 
tions for admission should also be made. 
THE BOTANICAL LABORATORY FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS 
will be opened on Wednesday, July 5. The laboratory work in Botany 
will be restricted to the study of the structures and development of 
types of the various orders of the Cryptogamous Plants. Especial 
attention will be given to the study of the various species of Marine 
Algz which occur so abundantly in the waters about Woods Holl, 
and students desiring to give their entire attention to these plants will be 
encouraged to do so, The Fungi and Higher Cryptogams will receive 
less attention than the Algae, and will be studied in fewer types. Lec- 
tures will accompany the laboratory work. The course may be out- 
lined somewhat as follows : 
First week, Cyanophycee—Lyngbya, Calothrix, Rivularia, Stigo- 
nema, Tolypothrix, Anabena. Second week, Chlorophycee—Spiro- 
gyra, Ulva, Enteromorpha, Chetomorpha, Bryopsis, Vaucheria, 
(Edogonium ; Phaeophyceae, Ectocarpus, Mesogloia, Leathesia, Lami- 
naria, Fucus, Sargassum. Third week, Rhodophycee—Batrachosper- 
mum, Nemalion, Callithamnion, Chondriopsis, Rhabdonia. Fourth 
week, Phycomycetes — Mucor, Sporodinia, Peronospora, Cystopus, 
Achlya; Uredinei, Æcidium, Uredo, Puccinia, Uromyces. Fifth 
week, Basidiomycetes—Agaricus, Lycoperdon; Ascomycetes—Micro- 
sphæra, Sordaria, Peziza, Physcia. Sixth week, Muscinee—Riccia, 
-= Madotheca, Marchantia, Mnium, Tetraphis, Hypnum; Filicineæ— 
Dicksonia, Adiantum, Equisetum, Lycopodium, Marsilia, Selaginella. 
The tuition for students in the regular course of laboratory work 
and lectures is thirty-five dollars, payable in advance; for students 
engaged in investigation the tuition is fifty dollars. 
Students are expected to supply their own instruments, or to pay an 
extra fee for those borrowed from the Laboratory. Applications 
should be addressed to William A. Setchell, 2 Hillhouse Ave., New 
Haven, Conn. 
The Physiological Laboratory will be open from June 1 to Septem- 
investigators. 
bine ai two persons may be obtained near the Lab- 
oratory, at prices varying from $2.00 to $4.00 a week, and board from 
from $4.50 to $6.00. By special t, board will be supplied 
to members at The Homestead at $5.00 a week. 
