THE MARINE LABORATORY. 
The work of collecting and arranging has been going on satis- 
torily. Mr. Cl. P. Bulinan has been arranging and tabulating our 
collections of mollusca, and his results are being overlooked l>y 
Mr. Howes, of the Hancock Museum. A preliminary report 
embodying their results will soon bo ready. Mr. Spence worked in 
the laboratory for a month in the summer, devoting himself particu- 
larly to Polyzoa, of which he has made for the laboratory a collection 
and prepared a list, which, however, is to be reserved for a subsequent 
report. 
Miss K. A. Smith, a student of the College, made use of the 
laboratory during the spring for general work. Dr. W. G. Smith, 
of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, spent a week at Easter studying 
marine Algie. 
But, as I have pointed out before, the laboratory must be fitted 
with certain very necessary articles before we can invite workers 
particularly from a distance. And knowing the wants and short- 
comings. 1 have had actually to put off some applications which have 
been sent me. 
A young fisherman should be appointed who would devote a few 
hours a day to collecting, to making and mending nets, and keeping 
the place tidy. If we had a boat, he could make regular excursions 
in the bay with the tow nets and with the dredge, and thus add 
materially to our collections and materials for study. Because ol 
the want of means of storage, I have taken to the college some of 
the large specimens, where, indeed, a fishery collection would be of 
great value. 
