steamer and spend six weeks on the great lakes. The cheapness of
steamer travel makes a trip of this kind in very comfortable style
possible at moderate expense. The price is fixed at $125, which includes
tuition fee and every other expense, for thirty days; and $3.50 per day
for ten days more. The time may be extended beyond forty days by a
majority vote of the excursionists. Buffalo or Cleveland will be the
starting point, and the line of travel will be around the south shore of
the lakes Erie, Huron, and Superior, returning by the north shore. The
steamer will be a free rover, and visit places outside of the usual
lines of travel. Lectures will be given and dredging done, the results
of which will be distributed among the pupils, and shares may also be
subscribed for by schools, teachers, and others. These shares will
entitle the holders to part of the botanical and zoological collections
made.

_Williams Rocky Mountain Excursion._

A more private but very extended excursion will be made by Williams
college students, under the care of Prof. Sanborn Tenney, who holds the
chair of natural history in the college. No fees are charged, and Prof.
Tenney receives no compensation. The number of students is limited to
fifteen, who will for the most part pay their own expenses, and the
expedition is not open to the public. The students are selected with
reference to the study of geology and mineralogy, botany, and the
various departments of zooelogy, entomology, ornithology, ichthyology.
Extensive collections will be made in all departments of natural
history, which will be deposited in the Williams college natural history
museum and the lyceum of natural history in the college. The excursion
will start early in July and return in time for the regular autumn
college opening. This is evidently intended to be one of the most
important enterprises of the year for field instruction.

_A Texas Trip._

Butler college, Irvington, Indiana, will send an expedition to Texas,
with headquarters at Dallas in that State. Studies in geology and
natural history will be mainly pursued, and collections made of birds,
fishes, reptiles, insects, plants, and fossils. The number of students
will be from ten to twenty-five, and they will leave Indianapolis June
20, under the charge of Prof. John A. Myers. Mammoth Cave, Lookout
mountain, and other places of interest in Tennessee and Alabama, will be
visited, and the party will return in time