TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 119 
STAFF AND LENGTH OF TIME AT STATION 
William Beebe—Zoological Society—Seven months. 
John Tee-Van—Zoological Society—Seven months. 
Albert M. Reese—Professor of Zoology, University of West 
Virginia—Two months. 
Alfred Emerson—Graduate Student, Cornell University— 
Seven months. 
Clifford Pope—Student in Zoology, University of Virginia— 
Three months. 
Isabel Cooper—Bryn Mawr—F our months. 
RESEARCH WORK OF THE STATION 
William Beebe.—The Director’s work dealt chiefly with gen- 
eral ecological problems and evanescent characters such as color, 
pattern, tissue form, developmental change and habits of the 
higher vertebrates. Elaborate studies were made of the eyes of 
reptiles and amphibians, and in addition the tongue, tarsus, and 
hyoid apparatus of Formicariide, Cotingide and Tyrannide, and 
the syringes of one hundred and twenty-two species. Four 
hundred and seventy-seven photographic negatives were made. 
The general notes on life histories of vertebrates were greatly 
increased and will shortly be ready for publication. Six Peripa- 
tus were studied, one of which gave birth to eight young. 
John Tee-Van took entire charge of the economic administra- 
tion of the Station, the motor boat, the preparation of the three 
hundred KOH and the insect collections. In addition he made 
five hundred pen and ink drawings of syringes, tongues, etc. A 
card index system of syringes was completed. 
Alfred Emerson, chose Termites as his object of research and 
a thesis for his university degree, which will be published by 
the Zoological Society. Fifty-six new species will be described 
with biological notes. 
Albert H. Reese.—Professor Reese began a microscopic study 
of the waters of the swamps and rivers, and an intensive ecologi- 
cal investigation of a hundred yards of sandy beach in front of 
the laboratory. 
