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The extensive reports on the marine invertebrates colle<-ted by the Harriman Alaskan expedition, are rapidly nearing completion. An equivalent of one large quarto volume will be contributed to the series by members of the Zoological Department. These four volumes will constitute the most extensive single contribution to the knowledge of the marine invertebrates of Alaska that has ever been made. The collections upon which the reports are based belong for the most part to the Universit~'. They were gathered b~· Professor Ritter, himself a member of the Harriman Expedition.

The work of the Department of Zoology at the Univer­sity's marine biological laboratory at San Pedro promises thf' widest scientific usefulness. These marine explorations in the waters off the coast of Southern California were made financially possible by the kindne!-ls of Mrs. Hearst, Mr. Henry W. O'Melveny, '79, Mr. J. A. Graves, Mr. Jacob Baruch, the Los Angeles Terminal Railway, and a number of residents of Los Angeles. The work done was both hydrographic and biological. Eighty-five dredging stations were occupied in the vicinity of San Pedro, Catalina Island. and San Diego. One hundred and sixty hauls were made by the trawl and dredge, and about seventy-five with the plankton net. Many soundings were taken, and a great number of determinations made of temperature and salinity. Large and valuable collections were procured. which are being gradually worked up by members of the. University and experts of other universities. A Summer School of Zoology was conducted at San Pedro, primarily for research work, but incidentally for elementary instruc­tion in zoology.

During the summer of 1902 the marine biological labora­tory was under the immediate charge of Professor Kofoid and Mr. Torrey. No elementary instruction was offered, and the work was wholly one of research. M11ny visiting. investigatQrs participated. It is strongly to be hoped that the San Pedro laboratory may be properly endowed and placed on a permanent basis. Its opportunity is unique.

Marloe Blolo&lcal Laboralol'}'.

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The ZoOlogical Museum is growing rapidly, particularly in the field of marine invertebrate zoOlogy. The utter inadequacy of the present storage capacity for these signifi·· caut collections has seriously hampered their usefulness.

A great number of students have followed Professor Ritter's course in elementary zoOlogy . His aim has been to give a comprehensive view of the animal creation as suhject to the laws of organic evolution, and of its culmina· tion in man . Hereafter these lectures are to be accompanied by conferences with small bodies of students, and by the demonstration of carefully selected types of animal form and animal structure. The accompanying laboratory courses further illuminate the great problems under dis­cussion. There is evid~ntly a growing tendency to broaden zoOlogieal instruction from its former almost exclusively morphological trend, and to inelude the study of habits of life, environment, conditions of geographical distribution, and the principles of classification,-in a word, to extend the labor of teaching into the field, and to make zoological work experimental, as well as observational and techuic1ll. The natural surroundings of a California university strongly invite to work of this broader sort.

The great developmei.tt of the Medical Department in the past two or three years has made it necessary entirely to recast the whole of the medical preparatory course . The new plan provides for two years of study at Berkel~~- ,

with physi<•s, chemistr)·, and biology as the center of the ·ditwipline, and with training in French, in German, and in English composition. The degree of B.S. is then con­ferred upon the eompletion of the first two years in the .Medical Department. These two years are devoted exclu­sively to scientific work on a wholly academic basis, work whi<~h serv~s as a foundation for subsequent clinical study.

With the organization and equipment of academic d<'partments of Physiology, Anatomy, and Pathology, the first two ~·ears of the Medical course have been placed on a strietly s<·icutifi< ~ basis. For these two years, instruction is

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Mr . • James R. Hyde 9.1ld Mr . C. B. Almcnndet· or New York, and P rince Andr6 PonilllOWRki or San Fmnciseo, provision for a series of 11ix lecture~ by ~l on~icur Hugues LeRoux, Lootun>r tor 1002 ot tbe Cl!rclu ~'ran~ois of Hun·ard University on " I.e Roman Contemporaiu."

MiiiJ! A. M. Alt"xouder, $2,000 for the equipmeu~ and Ulilintennttce of four paleontologicul expeditious, and fo r the purchase of n colloo­tion of pnleontolo!ficnl specimens from the John Dny region, ns fo!Jows: au expedition to Fossil Lake, Oregon, in 1901 , ~600; nn expedition to ~he Snurit>n beds or Xf.'''ttdn in 1902, t10.5; an expedl­~iou to the Shast•l ~uri,.u beds and lime~t{)nC eaves iJ• 1902, $1145; John Day speeiwens, $.';0.

Mr. ~'. M. Smith, n valunbll' ~ollection of the bones of mouunotbs, from Denth Valley.

Or. Arthur Sturr Enkle, a hundred nnd fifty specim.,ng of roolus from olassiual European 11nd Amerie&n loo.-lities, nnd a hundred and fltt.y SJllllllmenll of mineral".

Mrs. i\lnrthtL-\, Rnllidie, a choice collection of minerals, oud sevenll fine spceirueng of fo~sil fl~h, from G te(•n lli\·e•·.

Tho Unitod Stnt"~ '!'masury Dt•pnrt.m~nt nud the officials of the S~tn Prnneisco Mint, opportunity for Senior• in the College of Mining to bnvP nctunl proctiee in tho melting nnd rPfining of hl\rs of ~'Old and silver bullion in tho nwlting rooms or the C\l.int.

The Carborundum Company of :.-liugarn Fnlls, New York, n colloc­tiou illu~tmtiug tbtt mtutllfncture of. •.mrbortuulum: for the Miujug Museum.

'l'hP Acheson ~ntionnl Gntphite Company of Ningnm ~·ans, New York , n set. of snmples illustr11ting tbe mo.nufn<'tnre of nrtifieiol grolphite from nnthraeit~ coal ; for the Mining C\luscum.

'l'bo Pittsl.mrg l~uduction Compuuy or Pilt•lmrg, II collection illug­trnting n o"w electrienl process for the mnnufncture of lllnminum; for t he Mining )lu~eum.

Tho Nevodn M~tnllurgi~nl works of Snn Franc·l~o, a number of tons of oro for thl' Mining Ocportmeot.

'fhe Pacific Tnnk Compnny of bun ~'Mincisco, twel"e o re-tnnkd tor tho Mi ning Depu.rtment.

The summer marine biological ln.borutory at San Pedro, through which iruport RJlt reaull!i were secure•! in seientifio explor11tiou of the w11ters otT th(• Coust of Southern Cnlifornin, WtlS supported by the genero8ity of llll'l! . H e,.n;t, Mr. .J. A. G r11.ve8, . ~lr. .Jncob BMuch, Mr. Renry W. O'Melveny, '79 ; :\fr. William J. Kerckholf, Mr. Willi11m G. Rowland, Mr .• 1. N. Von Nuys, the Los Angeles Terminal Rllil­wsy , i\Ir. J. ll. Sbnnklnnd, Mr. John E. Plater, and i\fr. Chul'le~ ~l. W10igbt.

~lr. James Moffitt, 110 annual prize of $200 tor tbe winners or t.be nnnnnl California- St.anford l ntereolleginte debate .