1887] Editors’ Table. 747 
EDITORS’ TABLE. 
EDITORS: E. D. COPE AND J. S. KINGSLEY. 
In most university work study and instruction naturally cease 
with the beginning of the long summer vacation. The broiling 
suns of July and August are not conducive to the study of Greek 
roots, or problems connected with the fourth dimension of space. 
With biological studies the summer is most important, for then 
is the time when the student, relieved from all other duties, can 
carry on uninterruptedly a course of study and investigation 
_ Which supplements in an admirable manner the lectures, dissec- 
tions, and demonstrations of the college year. As our colleges 
and universities are situated, it is extremely difficult to give the 
students, in term-time, any adequate idea of marine forms and 
their wonderful development,—points which are of great impor- 
tance in a broad and well-balanced biological education. It is 
the recognition of this fact which has led to the establishment of 
marine laboratories along the eastern coast of the United States. 
In them are learned facts which could be obtained in no other 
Way. 
The importance of these laboratories or stations is recognized 
by every biologist, for in them a large part of the biological in- 
truction is given, and in them a large portion of the original 
"vestigation is carried on. It is only a few years since there 
were none of these regularly established stations. Then the 
3 Student went to some favorable spot, hired a building or a room 
be the shore, and conducted his researches with the most prim- 
se oo and under the most discouraging circumstances, 
wi ; z ENY there have been various stations established, more 
: ‘Sss permanently, and to these students have flocked from all 
: B the Union. To show their importance no better ex- : 
= i Pes be taken than the summer laboratory of Johns Hop- 
4... versity, This dates almost to the first year of the insti- 
which supports it. It has constantly been conducted by 
+K. Brooks at various points along the coast from the 
PEN oe she Chesapeake to the West Indies. The results w. 
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omplished can be seen by the various publications that 
~~ Proceeded from it, and the positions now occupied by those 
