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food grinder, an outfit of carpenter's tools, and agricultural imple- 

 ments. The station owns one horse, a farm wagon, a runabout, two 

 sets of harness, and a 27-foot naphtha launch. We' have recently 

 purchased 17,000 brick, left over by the contractor on the building, 

 • and $100 worth of roofing material ; we have on hand over $1,000 

 worth of lumber and $50 worth of paint. 



T/ie Library. — On account of the proximity of the station to New 

 York city, it is not nedessary that an attempt should be made to 

 build up a general biological library. We have, however, collected 

 a working library of compendia of the different sciences, books relat- 

 ing to experimental evolution, and complete files of a few important 

 periodicals, and are taking some periodicals currently. Including 

 those brought to the station by the writer, the following com- 

 plete files are available : Allgemeine Zeitschrift fiir Entomologoie, 

 American Journal of Physiology, Bericht der Deutschen Botanischen 

 Gesellschaft, Biological Bulletin, Botanisches Centralblatt, Bulletin 

 of the American Museum of Natural History (exclusive of vol. i). 

 Journal of Morphology, L'Annee Biologique, Zoological Record, 

 Zoologische Garten, Zoologischer Anzeiger ; also complete series of 

 zoological cards of the Concilium Bibliographicum to date. 



The following periodicals are taken currently : American Natural- 

 ist, Biologisches Centralblatt, Breeder's Gazette,Bulletinde la Societe 

 Zoologique de France, Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse, Experi- 

 ment Station Record, Farm Journal, Gardener's Chronicle, Journal 

 of Experimental Zoology, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 Nature, Nautilus, Popular Science Monthly, Psyche, Revue Gene- 

 rale de Botanique, Science, Zeitschrift fiir das landwirthschaftliche 

 \^ersuchswesen in Osterreich. 



In addition to the books purchased by the station, the director has 

 brought to the station 2,500 bound books and pamphlets, largely 

 relating to general and experimental biology. 



ORGANIZATION. 



The station comprises four classes of workers : ( i ) The resident 

 staff and helpers, (2) honorary associates, (3) associates, (4) corre- 

 spondents. 



(i) The resident staff includes those engaged in the scientific 

 work of the station and resident there. Besides the writer, whose 

 work is largely on domestic animals, mollusca, and Crustacea, the 

 staff includes Dr. George H. Shull, whose work is chiefly botanical 

 and who also has charge of the herbarium ; Mr. Frank E. Lutz, 

 whose work is chiefly on insects and who has charge of the record 



