st claret is sold in New York for $40 a cask, or about 66
cents a gallon. Of this 24 cents is for duty.

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THE SUMMER SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS.

Summer schools of science proved very popular last year, and are to be
continued this season. A lady who studied in the botanical school at
Harvard said that work began properly at nine o'clock and continued to
twelve; but the pupils were so eager to reap all possible benefit from
the six weeks' course, that some were in the laboratory by 7:30 in the
morning. One lady made herself sick in a week by over study, and many
others injured themselves by too close application. The Professor
finally prohibited work out of the regular hours. The schools will be
reopened July 6, and continue to August 17, the term being six weeks
long; applications to be made by June 1. The courses will be five in
number, as follows: General chemistry and qualitative analysis, under
Mr. C. F. Mabery, to whom (at Cambridge) applications must be sent; fee,
$25 and cost of supplies. Phaenogamic botany, by Prof. George L. Goodale;
fee, $25. For lectures without laboratory practice the charge is $10.
Cryptogamic botany will be taught by Prof. W. G. Farlow; fee, $25.
Microscopes, etc., are provided by the university. Students in this
course should have a previous knowledge of phaenogamic botany. In
addition to laboratory practice excursions will be made and lectures
given. Prof. Farlow's address is 6 Park Square, Boston.

Prof. N. S. Shaler and Mr. Wm. M. Davis, Jr., will give a course in
geology, including instruction in Cambridge, and a trip through
Massachusetts to New York. The tuition fee is $50, and other costs
_about_ $50 for board and lodging, and $25 for travelling expenses.
When the regular excursion is finished a more extended trip will be made
if desired, to the Mammoth Cave and other localities, on the way to
Nashville, where the American Association will have its next meeting.

Lastly, the school provides a course on zooelogy, by Mr. W. Faxon and Mr.
W. K. Brooks; fee, $25. It will comprise lectures, laboratory work, and
excursions to the neighboring seashores. Apply to Mr. W. Faxon,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

_The Cornell Excursion._

Cornell university also has its summer school of natural history, and it
will take a peculiar form this year. Prof. Theodore B. Comstock
proposes, if sufficient encouragement is given before May 1, to charter
a