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A MEETING of members of the University and others, to promote the objects of the Marine Biological Association, will be held at Cambridge on Saturday next, the 29th inst., in the Lecture-Room of Comparative Anatomy, the use of which fcr this purpose was granted to Prof. Newton by grace of the Senate on Thursday last. The Vice-Chancellor of the University (Dr. Ferrers, F.R. S., Master of Gonville and Cains College) has kindly undertaken to preside; and Prof. Moseley (the Chairman of the Council of ihe Association), Prof. Lan-kester (its Secretary), and Prof, bell, of the British Museum and King's College, London, are expected to attend and set forth the aims and needs of their deserving body. The chair will Le taken at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the proceedings (the details of which are being arranged by Mr. J. W. Clark, Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, and Mr. Sedgwick, University Lecturer in Animal Morphology) are likely to be full of interest. The same evening the anniversary dinner of the Cambridge Philosophical Society will be given in the hall of Peterhouse, on the special invitation of the Master and Fellows of that ancient college, the newly-elected President of the Society, Prof. Foster, Sec.R.S., in the chair.