ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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STATION FOR EXl'i:i<IMi:NrAl. E\' 



TIOX, COLD SPRING HARBOR. 



All work rooms are provided with running 

 water. The building, which is semi-fireproof, 

 is heated by steam, piped for gas and lighted 

 by electricity. 



The building is equipped with the usual 

 laboratory glassware and reagents with a 

 variety of cages and with measuring and cal- 

 culating apparatus. There are facilities for 

 collecting on land, fresh water or the sea. 

 An herbarium, zoological collections, and 

 records make it posible to learn quickly the 

 contents of the fauna and flora of the neigh- 

 borhood with a view of getting material for 

 any proposed experimental investigation. 



The library of the Station consists of about 

 200 bound volumnes, including a set of 

 reference books on the different sciences, 

 speculative and practical, works on evolution, 

 including variation, hereditv and plant and 

 animal breeding, about 1,500 pamphlets on 

 general biology, morphology and physiology 

 and files of some twenty-five journals and con- 

 tinuations. 



The station is used throughout the vear bv 



the following resident staiif : C. B. Davenport, 

 Director; G. H. Shull, botanist; F. E. Lutz, 

 entomologist; Anne M. Lutz, cytologist; R. 

 H. Johnson, entomologist and E. N. Transeau, 

 botanist. There are also an animal care-taker, 

 a mechanician and gardener. 



The Station co-operates with biologists else- 

 where, these "Associates" constituting the 

 non-resident staff of the station. 



Through its "correspondents," in this 

 country and abroad, the Station enters into 

 relation with other biologists engaged in the 

 experimental study of evolution, to facilitate 

 exchange of materials and ideas. 



In addition to the main building, the plant 

 comprises four greenhouses ; one for botani- 

 cal work and three small ones for work with 

 insects, of these three the eastermost contains 

 experiments with flies, beetles and crickets by 

 Air. Lutz, and the middle one experiments on 

 Coccinellidae by Air. Johnson. The western 

 house is used in the winter for rearing green 

 food for the pedigree birds. 



The annual budget of the Station is about 



