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PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and liv- 

 ing space for 15 visitors; fees charged for research 

 Space. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Small 



library; large outdoor ponds and tanks, small aquarium 

 tanks; research and identified reference collections of 

 common fresh-water vertebrates, mosses and aquatic 

 flowering plants; machine and wood shop; small boats 

 and outboard motors. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM : Summer courses in aquatic 

 flowering plants, fresh-water algae, natural history of 

 invertebrates and iishes, limnology, biology of im- 

 mature insects and a variety of terrestrial courses. 



SIZE OF staff: Seven to ten at professional level; 1 

 technician. 



important species available for laboratory 

 studies: 

 Amphibia: Rana pipiens, R. septeiitr'ional'is 

 Pisces: AMcropteriis salmotioides 

 Crustacea: Orcoiiecles ririlis 

 Neuroptera: Corydahis corni/la 

 Diptera: Wyeomyia smitbii, Simulium spp. 

 Coleoptera : Dystiscus jasciventris 

 Hydrocharitaceae: Elodea canadensis 

 Sarraceniaceae: Sarracenia purpurea 



major current research projects and scientific 

 leaders: 

 Fresh-water Chrysophyceae (R. E. Norris) 

 Revision of the genus Ochroiiionas (R. E. Norris) 

 Cytotaxonomy of the genus Potamogeton (K. R. 



Stern) 

 Comparative plant ecology of prairie and forest ponds 



(J. R. Tester) 

 Ecology of amphibians (W. H. Marshall) 



Lamont Geological Observatory 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Palisades, New York, USA. 

 LOCATION : Near New York City. 

 EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Maurice Ewing, Director. 

 SPONSORING AGENCY: Columbia University. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1949. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Unrestricted research on geo- 

 physics, geochemistry, marine geology and biology as 

 applied to the geology and structure of the earth; 

 graduate instruction. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Atlantic Ocean 

 and Hudson River. 



PROVISION FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Accommodations 

 can be made by arrangement; living space available 

 nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Very ex- 

 tensive library at the New York City campus and 

 moderately complete at the Palisades campus ; excellent 

 apparatus ; identified reference collections of plank- 

 tonic and benthonic Foraminifera, Pteropoda and 

 Isopoda ; machine and wood shop, electrical and elec- 



LAMONT GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY 



tronic shop, skilled shop workmen available; small 

 boats; vessels, 202 ft LOA, R/V Vema, 72 ft LOA, 

 R/V Goldberger, and 136 ft LOA, R/V Sir Horace 

 Lamb, 210 ft LOA, R/V Conrad. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM : In the Zoology Department 

 of Columbia University: general zoology, biometrics, 

 embryology, genetics, cellular physiology. In the 

 Geology Department: geophysics, geochemistry, seis- 

 mology', submarine topography and oceanography. 



SIZE OF staff: Fifty at professional level; 150 tech- 

 nicians and others. 



MAJOR CURRENT BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS AND 

 SCIENTIFIC LEADERS: 



Ecolog)' of living planktonic Foraminifera (Allan W. 



H. Be) 

 Marine microbiology (P. R. Burkholder) 

 Research expeditions of R/V Vema (Maurice Ewing) 

 Biological studies from Arctic drifting stations and 

 'T from ice islands (Jack Oliver) 



Alaine State Department of Inland Fisheries and 

 Game, Fishery Research and Management 

 Division 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Department of Zoology, University of 



Maine, Orono, Maine, USA. 

 EXECUTIVE officer: Dr. W. Harry Everhart, Head of 



Division and Professor of Zoology, University of 



Maine. 

 SPONSORING agencies: State of Maine and University 



of Maine. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1950. 



SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES: Restricted research on the man- 

 agement of the inland fisheries. 



SEASON OF OPERATION: All year. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: Estuarine condi- 

 tions, eutrophic and oligotrophic lakes, rivers and 

 streams; all inland waters of Maine. 



