﻿BURNSIDE] THE SMITHSONIAN TABLE AT NAPLES H7 



are received also tends to create complication as to occupancy, but 

 at the same time this condition offers a partial compensation for the 

 crowding at intervals from the fact that there is occasionally a 

 period of some length without an appointee at the Smithsonian table, 

 which is then at the service of the Director for such students as it 

 may suit his convenience to receive. The average annual occupancy 

 of the Smithsonian table for the first eleven years of its existence, 

 1893 to 1904, may be stated in general terms as eight and one-half 

 months. 



Before the expiration of the first term of three years for which the 

 Institution became responsible for the support of a table in the 

 Zoological Station, a second memorial was received urging the re- 

 newal of the lease. This petition, like the first, was signed by many 

 representative biologists and officials of scientific institutions, some 

 of whom emphasized the advantage to American students of having 

 one American table at Naples which was not affiliated with any 

 college but rather under the unattached administration of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. Since the renewal of the lease of the table for a 

 second term of three years, it has twice been extended for shorter 

 periods, and the seat has now been obtained on behalf of the Institu- 

 tion for three years from January 1st, 1904. 



During the twelve years for which the Smithsonian has been re- 

 sponsible for the support of a table, an annual average of three 

 applications has been approved on behalf of nearly forty naturalists, 

 some of whom have filled more than one appointment. These in- 

 vestigators were connected with schools, colleges, and universities in 

 widely different localities, thus representing, it may be said, nearly 

 the whole breadth of the United States, as shown by the following list 

 of educational institutions whose alumni or professors have occupied 

 the Smithsonian seat : 



Adelbert College, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Arkansas Industrial University, Fayetteville. 



Brown University, Providence, R. I. 



University of California, Berkeley. 



University of Chicago, Chicago. 



Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



Columbia University, New York City. 



Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. 



Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois. 



German American Normal College, Milwaukee, Wis. 



