Scientific News. 89 
—The project of a Marine Biological Laboratory on the New 
England Coast is not languishing. Several thousand dollars have 
already been subscribed towards the erection of the necessary build- 
ing and its equipment and maintainance. The committee on the 
laboratory have arranged a course of eight lectures, the proceeds of 
which are to be added to the fund. These lectures are as follows: 
Jan. 18.—Professor W. H. Niles, of Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology —“ Mountain Sculpture.” n. 26. j ee < 
Poweil, Director of the United States Geological Survey — 
“Savagery, Barbarism and Civilization.” Feb..1.—Professor H. 
N. Martin, of the Johns Hopkins University—“ A Hen’s Egg.” 
Feb. 8.—Professor George L. Goodale, of Harvard College— 
“ Seeds.” Feb. 16.—Professor F. W. Putnam, Director of the 
Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, at 
‘Cambridge—* The Serpent Mound and the Ancient People of the 
Ohio Valley.” Feb. 22.—Professor Alpheus Hyatt, Curator of 
the Boston Socicty of Natural History —“ A practical Example of 
the Evidence for Evolution.” Feb. 29.—Doctor Henry P. Bow- 
ditch, Dean of the Harvard Medical School—(Subject to be 
announced.) March 7.—Professor Edward S. Morse, Director of 
the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem—“ Reptilian Affinities of 
Mammals.” ‘The lectures will be illustrated by the stereopticon 
and the tickets for the course are placed at $5.00. 
—In the spring ground will be broken for another section of the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. It will 
a continuation of the present west wing, and will be used to 
accommodate the growing needs of the botanical department. It 
will contain laboratories for the study of both cryptogamic and 
phenogamic botany. There will also be rooms for the exhibition of 
the collections already accumulated, for which there is no adequate 
accommodation. The fund for building has already been raised, 
through the exertions of Prof. J. M. Goodale. A collection of 
Superb glass models, representing the principle species of flowering 
plants, is now being made in Germany, especially for this exhibit. 
When this addition is completed and the collections arranged, it 
will be surpassed by few in the world. The Museum has long out- 
grown its exclusively zoological character and has for many years 
contained the geological collections and some of the botanical labora- 
tories have had accommodations in it for some time. 
—Volume I, No. 1, of the American Journal of Psychology, G. 
Stanley Hall, Ph.D., editor, has appeared. It contains 206 pages, 
‘original papers, and 79 pages to reviews and digests of recent 
