. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. Grant Lochhead studied at the University of certain amount of material at hand which Prof, von Leipzig, having just been granted his degree; Tubeuf kindly sent me here. Since then several but he did not succeed in leaving Germany in time more instruments have been obtained by other stu- when war broke out. Those who know the pleasant, dents. We have now an excellent microscopical courteous and happy dispostion of Grant Lochhead, outfit for general laboratory work. The instru- will be glad to hear how he and other young Brit- ishers succee


. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. Grant Lochhead studied at the University of certain amount of material at hand which Prof, von Leipzig, having just been granted his degree; Tubeuf kindly sent me here. Since then several but he did not succeed in leaving Germany in time more instruments have been obtained by other stu- when war broke out. Those who know the pleasant, dents. We have now an excellent microscopical courteous and happy dispostion of Grant Lochhead, outfit for general laboratory work. The instru- will be glad to hear how he and other young Brit- ishers succeeded by a dogged determination in overcommg to some extent, the boredom and ennui— to say the least—of a prisoner's camp life. " . . Ruhleben camp is situated on a bleak plateau on the site of the w^ll-known race course to the west of Berlin. This fact will account for the mention of "betting booth, hay loft and grandstand. ' "Roughly the camp is made up of students from the Public Schools and Universities. The educa- tional work has been going on there for the past two and a half years. As an introduction to the pros- pectus of work for the autumn term 1916, we find among other notices the following:—In most sub- jects the tuition provided at the school, ranges from that required by absolute beginners to that required by advanced university students. The term consists of fourteen weeks; the total subscription of marks should be paid in advance, if ; From a letter of Dr. A. Eckley Lechmcre to R. Paulson, dated 14th, 1917: "When the laboratory started in the spring of 1915, we were fortunate enough to have several. l»K. GRANT LOCHHEAD Latfly a ("anarlian prisoner at Rulil«ii Cam]), Germany. *Abstractf<l fr(»m "Microscoi y at KuIiI'-Im-ti", a paper read by R. Paulson, , .lour. Fioy. Mlcr. Soc., March. 1!M8. part one. p. 26 () ments include the follow- ing items: — One Leitz binocula


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