intended to secure a location at a point on the New England coast where the fauna and flora are abundant and varied, and the cost of living moderate : to build a laboratory with two stories, the lower story having accommodations for teaching twenty-five persons, the upper story having work-places for investigators ; to furnish aquaria, microscopes, microtomes, glassware, etc., and a constant supply of water for aquaria ; also to have a convenient landing, boats, collecting-apparatus, etc.Of course, to insure the permanency and full usefulness of the laboratory, a considerable endowment fund must be ultimately obtained, but so much can perhaps not be hoped at the start.PASTEUR, who is now sixty-four years old, was last winter sent by his physician to Italy for his health, and is only just returning to Paris.Under date of April 1,in a letter to his friend 3lr.Jules Marcou of Cambridge, which the latter kindly permits us to use, he writes from Arbois in the Jura tliat he hopes to live to welcome the earliest publications of the Institut Pasteur, and adds,We have just purchased eleven thousand square -
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