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Linnaeus' original collections came from this region, and thus 

 we find that the most of the form are the types of their respective 

 genera. 



Nearly four hundred and fifty species of birds have been 

 recorded, of which breeding notes have been made on one hun- 

 dred and thirty species. This is probably the largest number 

 ever recorded from so limited an area. Elaborate food notes have 

 been made, and dissections of characters, hitherto little studied 

 in fresh specimens, such as turbinals, the tail muscles, syrinx, 

 tongue and fundus oculi. 



Over one hundred species of reptiles and amphibians have 

 been collected, their brilliant but evanescent coloring painted, 

 and the embryology and life history of many worked out. 



Only the fishes which have been taken inshore in weir and 

 nets have been studied. These number about seventy-five, and 

 in diversity and strangeness of form, food and habits, are an 

 assurance of intensely interesting future work in this field. 

 Collections have been made of the land travelling forms for 

 study of their adaptive swim-bladders. 



Among the insects, ants and termites or wood ants are 

 the only groups which have been studied with any thoroughness. 

 Prof. William M. Wheeler, who is the acknowledged authority 

 on ants, collected over two hundred forms in two months, within 

 a short distance of the laboratory, and actually secured ninety- 

 three species from a single tree of medium size. In the cleared 

 compound of the laboratory he found every genus of fungus- 

 growing ant known in the world. 



During two seasons' work, Mr. Alfred Emerson discovered 

 seventy species of wood ants, within a half mile of the station. 

 Fifty of these are new to science. A most remarkable series of 

 one hundred kinds of guest insects were collected, some modified 

 to an astounding extent. The castes of soldiers, workers, kings 

 and queens, the nests, fungus diseases and parasites, wing devel- 

 opment and general habits of many of these species have been 

 recorded in notes, drawings and photographs. Although the 

 interest is primarily purely scientific, yet investigations such as 

 this may ultimately prove to be of considerable economic interest. 



Although no work has been completed in other groups of 

 invertebrates, yet a hasty resume of butterflies and moths shows 



