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the best talent in the country. In the Naples station tables are supported by Cam- 

 bridge and Oxford universities. Fellowships are given in these institutions which 

 permit students of excellent record to use these tables, in addition to which each 

 student receives from the university a certain amount of money. 



In our own colleges and universities are many undergraduate and graduate 

 students engaged in research work, and who are much hampered because of the hick of 

 material. Some of them, because of the expense in securing the proper material when 

 on the coast, are obliged to abandon indefinitely lines of investigation which they have 

 begun. Many of our leading universities give fellowships to meritorious students. 

 These fellowships give the student special privileges of the university, and from noth- 

 ing to about $1,500 per year. Often the student is allowed to spend his time in study 

 in some other university, usually abroad, because of the special advantages it offers 

 in his particular line of work. A Government biological station could be established 

 and so managed that it would invite these students to its privileges, more especially 

 that particular grade of students engaged in special lines of work having the most 

 direct bearing on problems of economic importance. In this way the greatest possible 

 results could be attained at a minimum of expense. 



We have represented at this Congress the United States Fish Commission, some 

 State commissions, commercial fishermen, sportsmen, and a number of scientific 

 institutions, and I believe it could fulfill no better mission than to in some way 

 encourage our National Congress to supplement its appropriation to the Fish Com- 

 mission, and urge that it establish and maintain at least one biological station on 

 our southern coast, somewhat after the manner which I have outlined. Its importance 

 and usefulness would soon be appreciated, and I am sure it would be productive of 

 valuable results. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 



