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of $205.00 for each individual.' The original estimate made in 

 1891 was $2O0.oo for each person. Just before reaching Balti- 

 more it was deemed desirable to make an assessment of $5-00 

 all around in order to meet some extra expenses at that place. 

 As a matter of fact, enough remained to give a reunion ban- 

 quet to the whole party in June, 1894, and still a few dollars 

 remain in the treasur\'. In addition to the privileges enjoyed 

 during the cruise, each member of the party is entitled to a 

 series of the marine forms collected, after the University has 

 received the first complete series from each locality visited. 

 Several individuals have already sold enough of this material to 

 realize the $200.00 originally expended, so that in these cases 

 the trip cost nothing at all except the time. I am inclined to 

 think that this is a record-breaker in the matter of cheapness. 



The amount of zoological material collected was perhaps 

 as great as has been secured by any other dredging expedi- 

 tion in the same length of time, and the number of new forms 

 shows that its scientific value \vill ultimately prove to be equal 

 to that of other much more pretentious cruises. The different 

 groups are to be worked up by the best specialists that can be 

 found, and the readiness with which the masters in marine 

 zoology have undertaken to report on the groups in which 

 they are most proficient is in itself the best proof of the scien- 

 tific value of the collection. These reports will appear from 

 time to time in the '"Bulletins from the Laboratories of Nat- 

 ural History of the State University of Iowa." The following 

 specialists have undertaken to work up certain portions of the 

 material as indicated below : 



Professor Samuel Garman, of Harvard, the fishes; Mr. 

 William H. Ashmead. of the National Museum, the Hymen- 

 optera (excepting the ants) ; Mr. Theodore Pergande, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, the ants; Dr. 

 John B. Smith. Rutgers College, the Lepidoptera; Professor 

 Herbert Osborn. Iowa Agricultural College, the Hemiptera; 



1 This sum provided for every necessary expense from Iowa City, the 

 starting point, and return, including a berth in a sleeper and a seat in a 

 palace car from Chicago to Baltimore, for each. 



