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who have been drilled in methods of study in marine laboratories in 
Europe and America, is established." 
The author has been told that a movement is now on foot to 
found a marine zodlogical station in California. It is hoped that 
the information is correct. It is believed that if such a laboratory 
is properly conducted it will lead to most important results in the 
advancement of science. 
EDITORS’ TABLE. 
EDITORS: E. D. COPE AND J. S. KINGSLEY. 
THE satire which has been everywhere for a half century leveled 
at the classical names of towns in New York State, given by some 
- schoolmaster who was in a position to give them, should have taught 
American nomenclators of later date a lesson. Perhaps the refer- 
ence to the classical dictionary has been less frequent since that 
time, but the poverty of imagination of the modern American has 
been none the less apparent. It is pardonable in immigrants to 
name a locality in America after their birthplace in some European 
country ; but when the “stock American” must search European 
and classical geographies for names, he advertises two things : first, 
his want of esthetic capacity ; second, if perchance he select some 
euphonious name from the Greek, his want of national spirit and 
character—in form at least. What can be more incongruous than 
the naming of one of the canyons of Colorado the Canyon of 
Lodore! But what especially moves us to make these remarks is 
the fact that we are threatened, according to the daily press, with a 
still more objectionable piece of Jenkinsism. The plain adjacent to 
the Salt River of Arizona, where so many important archeological 
1 It would be a most interesting part of my article, if space permitted, 
to record the many valuable papers which have already been published 
on Californian Marine Invertebrated Animals. These are mostly in 
systematic zodlogy. The Molluca are well known, something is known 
of the Crustacea, Echinoderms, Actinians,and Meduse. The sponges, 
Bryozoa, Tumicata, Worms, Nudibranchs and one or two other groups — ; 
await even systematic identification and description. The study of 
larval forms of animals, of embryology, of anatomy and histology iS _ : 
almost unknown as far as California marine invertebrates are concerned. 
