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The following, for various reasons, resigned their appointments: 



Wallace Craig, University of Chicago, resigned Jnne 6, 1904. 



Dr. W. C. Curtis, University of Missouri, resigned June 29, 1904. 



B. M. Duggan, Universitj^ of INIissouri. 



J. A. Edquist, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Paul, Minn. 



W. F. Mercer, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, resigned June 29, 1904. 



Max W. Morse, Ohio State University, resigned June 6, 1904. 



Porter E. Sargent, Cambridge, Mass. 



The director of the laborator}-, Dr, C. L. Whitman, sent the follow- 

 ing statement of the investigators at the laboratory during the season 

 of 1904 ; he also stated that the laboratory would have accommoda- 

 tions for a few investigators from October to May, or during the cold 

 season. Forty-seven institutions w^ere represented by investigators. 



INVESTIG.\TORS. 

 Zoology : 



Occupying rooms 29 



Occupying tables. 3 



Physiology : 



Occupying rooms 9 



Botany : , 



Occupying rooms 10 



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Naples Zoological Station, Naples, Italy. Grant No. 124. For 

 maintenance of two tables. $1,000. 



Abstract of Report. — One of the tables was occupied by Dr. H. S. 

 Jennings, now of the University of Pennsylvania, from September i, 

 1903, to July I, 1904; a second by Dr. Bradley M. Davis, of the 

 University of Chicago, from February 29, 1904, to June i, 1904. 

 Dr. Edmund B. Wilson, of Columbian University, occupied a table 

 from May 27, 1904, to July 14, 1904. 



When not occupied by persons selected by the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, the tables are open to whomsoever the director of the laboratory 

 may desire to assign to them. 



