REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 15 



C. W. Stiles, ph. d. 7 zoologist, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, nominated by Prof. C. O. Whitman, presi- 

 dent of the American Morphological Society. 



John A. Ryder, ph. d., professor of embryology, University of 

 Pennsylvania, nominated by Prof Allen, president of the Association 

 of American Anatomists. 



These nominations having been approved, I designated Dr. J. S. 

 Billings, IT. S. A., chairman and Dr. C. W. Stiles secretary of the com- 

 mittee. 



Satisfactory conditions as to the occupancy of the table were arranged 

 with Dr. Dohrn, the director of the station at Naples, and the follow- 

 ing contract was duly signed and completed: 



[Translation.} 

 CONTRACT. 



1. The director, Dr. A. Dohrn, places a study table in the laborato- 

 ries of the Zoological Station at Naples at the disposition of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution under the following conditions and on the terms 

 stated in article 11 of this contract: 



2. The table will be prepared tor the occupancy of the student desig- 

 nated by the Smithsonian Institution within one week from the time 

 the administration shall have been advised of his arrival. 



3. The table must be supplied with the objects enumerated below, as 

 follows: 



(a) The principal chemical reagents; 



(b) Instruments ordinarily needed in anatomy and microscopy; 



(c) Implements for drawing. 



The laboratories will be found provided with the more complicated 

 instruments and apparatus which are commonly used; these, however, 

 will be provided only in duplicate or in triplicate, while they are to 

 serve tor the general use. The station does not provide optical instru- 

 ments for the tables, it being understood that those who come there to 

 work are to furnish their own. 



I. The table is supplied with a sufficient number of small aquaria with 

 flowing water, to serve for any experiments which the student may 

 need to make. 



5. The animals which are the object of the research, will be renewed 

 as often as possible, and according to the student's needs. It will also 

 be practicable to have material prepared and preserved in known ways, 

 in order that the studies commenced at Naples may be continued else- 

 where. 



0. The great aquarium attached to the Zoological Station will be 

 open gratis to the occupant of the table, either for his entertainment 

 or for his studies upon animal habits. 



7. The binary of the Zoological Station is in a hall adjacent to the 

 laboratories, and is accessible to the occupant of the table, who may use 

 it as a reading or a writing room. 



8. The laboratories will be open at 7 o'clock in the morning in sum- 

 mer and S o'clock in winter. In exceptional cases, other arrangements 

 may be made with the administration, though the employes are not 

 obliged to open the laboratories before the given hour. Prom June 20 

 to August 20 the laboratories will be closed. 



