General Notes. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— The Geological Society was organized at Ithaca, New York, on 
December 29, 1888. The original fellows number one hundred and 
nine. The admission fee is $10. 
—The trustees of the Australian Museum, Sydney, have recently 
decided to continue the publication of the rich collection of drawings 
and MSS. left by the late Alexander Scott, and since acquired by them, 
and the work of revising and editing this material has been entrusted 
to his daughter, Mrs. E. Forde, and Mr. A. Sidney Olliff. 
— The Marine Biological Laboratory has just issued its circulars for 
the coming summer's' session. Dr. C. O. Whitman will be the di- 
rector. He will be assisted in the Investigator's Department by Drs. 
Howard Ayers and E. G. Gardiner, and in the Student's Department 
in- Drs. J. S. Kingsley and J. P. McMurrich and Prof. J. Ellis 
Humphrey. 
The laboratory is located at Wood's Holl, Mass., near the labora- 
tories of the United States Fish Commission. The building consists 
of two stories : the lower, for the use of students receiving instruction, 
the upper, exclusively for investigators. The laboratory has aquaria 
supplied with running sea-water, boats, collecting apparatus, and 
dredges ; it will also be supplied with reagents, glassware, and a 
limited number of microtomes and microscopes. The library will be 
provided, not only with the ordinary text-l)ooks and works of refer- 
ence, but also with the more important journals of zoology and 
botany, many of them in complete series. The Laboratory for In- 
vestigators will be open from June 3 to August 31. It will be fully 
t'(iui]iped with aquaria, glassware, reagents, etc., but microscopes and 
microtomes will not be provided. In this department there are eight 
jirivate rooms for the use of investigators not requiring instruction, 
wh(^ are invited to carry on their researches at the laboratory. Those 
who recpiire supervision in their work, or, being already prepared to 
begin original work, desire special suggestions and criticism, or ex- 
tended instruction in technique, will occupy tables in the general 
laboratory for investigators, and will pay for its privileges a fee of 
fifty dollars. The Laboratory for Students will be opened on Wednes- 
day, July 10, for regular courses of seven weeks in Marine Zoology 
and Microscopical I'echnique. Botany will be taught for the present 
season during August. Opportunities will be given for collecting and 
preparing material for use in the class room and for special lines of 
study. The fee for workers in this department is twenty-five dollars, 
payable in advance. The number of students will be limited to 
twenty-five, and preference will be given to teachers or others already 
([ualified. By permission of the Director, students may begin their 
individual work as early as June 15, without extra charge, but the 
regular courses of instruction will not begin before July 10. 
Applications should be addressed tO Miss A. D. Phillips, Secretary, 
23 Marlboj-p St, Boston, Mass. 
