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 — Four months. 



RESEARCH WORK OF THE STATION 



WiUicuii 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 Formicariidse, Cotingidse and Tyrannidae, 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. 



JoJdi 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. 



