1889-] Scientific News. 1037 
])ecker and high holder. This is the first recorded instance of the ne>t 
of this bird having been found on the Island. 
Mr. James Raymond presented a large stone axe, skin scraper and 
several arrow heads from Tottenville. 
Mr. Arthur Holiick showed fossils, mostly corals, found in the yel- 
loNv gravel overlying the limonite ore on Todt Hill. 
Dr. Britton remarked that an outcrop of Cretaceous clav had been 
recently reported at the foot of Eltingville road, and Mr. Holiick 
stated that recent excavations near the railroad trestle beyond Arling- 
ton station had exposed Triassic shale in considerable quantity, and 
that the locality would probably repay careful examination. Other 
exposures of this formation at Mariners' Harbor and Erastina, were 
described in the proceedings for April nth, 1889. 
A list of the fungi in the cabinet of the .Association, named by Mr. 
J. B. Ellis, of Newfield, N. J., was presented, which will be published 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS 
The session of the Marine Biological Laboratory during the past 
summer was as successful as the most sanguine could wish. Every 
room and table was occupied, and some applicants were refused merely 
on account of lack of accommodations. Altogether forty-four per- 
sons were at work there during the summer. Among the changes 
made the following were the more important : The northern side of 
the investigator's room was divided by partitions into ten small studies 
for advanced students, who were invited to avail themselves of the 
facilities of the Laboratory free of expense. Each room was furnished 
with table, chair, glassware, reagents, aquarium, etc. The iron water 
pipes were replaced by wooden ones, and a large tank was erected out- 
side the building. The library proved extremely valuable. Through 
the generosity of Mrs. Evans of Boston the trustees had $r,ooo to 
spend for books, and this was increased by an appropriation from the 
general fund. The result is that the lib 
_ ' furnished ^ 
- ^.. ....p.. cant journals, while naturalists all over the United 
States contributed "extras" of their papers. 
Twenty-five students occupied the lower laboratory, spending 
vhile the 
present were engaged in investigation, and soon the woria 
to see the results of their work. Among the subjects studit 
