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ance of marine life is exceptionally great. In the immediate vicinity 
of the Laboratory are exceptionally fine collecting grounds. 
ExpeEnseEs.—To investigators prepared to carry on original work 
the use of the Laboratory and its equipment is tendered free of charge. 
Students in the Leland Stanford Junior University, will be charged 
a fee of fifteen dollars. 
The fee for other students is fixed at twenty-five dollars for the 
term of six weeks. 
Pacific Grove, is well supplied with boarding accommodations, with 
considerable range in price. Cottages and tents, furnished for light 
housekeeping, can be rented at reasonable rates. For further informa- 
tion address the Directors: _ : 
CHARLES H. GILBERT, 
OLIVER P. JENKIN”. 
The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine-Arts of Bel- 
gium offers prizes for Memoirs on researches concerning the following 
subjects: 1. Original investigations on the intervention of phagocytosis 
in the development of invertebrates. 2. Description of mineral phos- 
phates, sulphates and carbonates found in Belgium, including the 
locality and formation in which the deposits occur. 3. Original in- 
vestigations on the peripheral nervous system of Amphioxus, and, espe- 
cially, the constitution and genesis of the sensory roots. 4. Original 
investigations on the mechanism of the cicatrization of plants, 
The next meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science will commence on the 11th of September at Ipswich, under the 
Presidency of Sir Douglas Galton, F.R.S. The general secretaries 
are Sir Douglas Galton and A. G. Vernon Harcourt, F. R.S. The 
Presidents of the Sections are as follows: 
Section A, Mathematical and Physical Science, Prof. W. M. Hicks, 
M. A., D.Sc., F. R.S.; Section B, Chemistry, Prof. R. Meldola, F. R. 
S., For. Sec.C.S.; Section C, Geology, W. Whitaker, B. A., F. R. S., 
F. G.S. ; Section D, Zoology, Prof. W. A. Herdman, D. Sc.. F. R.S. ; 
Section E, Geography, H. J. Mackinder, M. A., F. R.G.S.; Section F, 
Economic Science and Statisties, L. L. Price, M. A., F.S.S.; Section 
G, Mechanical Science, Prof. L. F. Vernon Harcourt, M. A., M. Inst. 
C. E. ; Section H, Anthropology, Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, D. C. L. ; 
Section I, Physiology. This Section will not meet at Ipswich; papers 
on Animal Physiology will be read in Section D; Section K, Botany, 
W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, C. M. G., C. I. E., F. R.S. 
