Scientific News. aie 283 
—The Committee on the Marine Biological Laboratory have 
issued an appeal for aid in establishing the laboratory, from which 
we learn that $8,000 of the desired $15,000 have already been 
secured, and that it is proposed to start work before the full endow- 
ment has been secured. It is hoped—first, to secure a location at 
Woods Holl, Mass., where the fauna and flora are abundant and 
varied; second, to build a, laboratory with two stories—the lower 
story to have accommodations for teaching at least twenty-five per- 
sons, the upper story to have work-places for investigators—to fur- 
nish aquaria, microscopes, microtomes, glassware, etc., also a con- 
stant supply of water for aquaria ; third, to have a convenient land- 
ing, boats, collecting apparatus, ete. To meet the running expenses, 
fees will be charged those who work at the laboratory. The labora- 
tory is to have two principal objects—first, the education of com- 
petent teachers of biology ; second, the furnishing of suitable facilities 
for original investigation, such as are afforded students in Europe. 
_ —The Boston Society of Natural History is agitating the estab- 
lishment of an aquarium and zoological garden. 
—Mr. Andrew Garrett, who has done so much to explore the 
molluscan fauna of the South Sea Islands, died in the Society 
Islands Noy. 1, 1887. 
—George Robert Waterhouse, of the British Museum, died in 
Putney January 21,1888. His later years were devoted to geology, 
ut some years ago he published a commencement of a monograph 
of the Mammalia, a very useful work, which deserved completion. 
—Dr. Max Schmidt died in Berlin February 3, 1888, in hi 
fifty-fourth year. He was formerly Director of the Zoological 
Garden in Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, but in 1884 was called to a 
Similar position in Berlin, as successor to Dr. Bodinus. 
—Dr. D. S. Jordan sails in June for Europe. It is his intention 
a rvored to Greece to study the fish-fauna of the Eastern Medi- 
ranean. 
— Professors O. P, Jenkins and B. W. Evermann have just 
alaa the collections which they made during last summer at 
fha mas, on the Gulf of California. They are especially rich in 
€s, some twelve species being new. 
—August Friedrich, Count Marschall, the author of the Nomen- 
T logicus (published in 1873), died in Vienna October hi, 
