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other at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, will be devoted to 

 an experimental study of evolution. This Station will be on 

 the grounds lying between the New York State Fish Hatchery 

 and the Biological Laboratory. About twelve acres of ground 

 have been leased for a period of 50 years and through the co- 

 operation of generous neighbors the use of much additional land, 

 both forest and pasture, will be available. A building of brick, 

 about 35 by 60 feet, will be erected on the ground to serve as 

 administrative quarters and for the breeding of some of the 

 smaller animals and plants. An experimental garden of about 

 an acre, completely covered from access of birds by wire netting 

 will be started at once, and there will be two acres of supple- 

 mentary gardens. 



The staff of the Station will consist of Professor Daven- 

 port as Director (who will retain for the present also the direc- 

 tion of the Biological Laboratory); Mr. Frank E. Lutz, who 

 will have charge chiefly of biometrical variation investigations ; 

 Dr. George H. Shull, who will work chiefly on plants, and of 

 Miss Anna M. Lutz, who besides serving as secretary will 

 make certain cytological investigations. The output of the 

 Station will be increased by others residing there for a greater 

 or less part of the year. Professor R. S. Lillie will thus be 

 in residence during 1904-05. There will also be a class of As- 

 sociates which will include biologists who receive special aid for 

 work in Experimental Evolution from the Carnegie Institution 

 or whose work is aided by the Station. The Station and its 

 Associates will cooperate in the work and the results of the in- 

 vestigations of the Associates will, in so far as aided by the Sta- 

 tion, be published as results of the Station. 



The lines of investigation to be taken up by the Station in- 

 clude not only the evolution of morphological characters but 

 also of physiological ones. Especial attention will be paid to 

 the question of the limit of inheritableness of acquired charac- 

 ters, both static and dynamic. It hoped that results of import- 

 ance for Psychology and Neurology will be gained of which 

 the readers of the /ournal may expect duly to be advised. 



