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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 29. 



In the Division of Illustrations, under Mr. 

 DeL. W. Gill, 105 original drawings were 

 made during the month, comprising geologic 

 landscapes, maps and sections and miscel- 

 laneous subjects. Engraved proofs to the 

 number of 117 were received and examined. 

 In the photograph laboratory 203 negatives 

 and 1165 prints were made. 



THE BIOLOGICAL EXFESIMENT STATION OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



The State Legislature of Illinois has 

 made a sufficient appropriation to the Bio- 

 logical Experiment Station of the Univer- 

 sity of that State to provide for it an inde- 

 pendent equipment and a separate working 

 force. 



This Station was established April 7, 

 1894, in leased quarters on the Illinois 

 River, at the town of Havana, one hundred 

 miles west of the University. It is devoted 

 to a continuous study of the plant and ani- 

 mal life of the Illinois Eiver and adjacent 

 waters, with principal reference to cecolog- 

 ical problems. Its main object is scientific, 

 and the principal business of its staff is orig- 

 inal research. Economic ends will be 

 kept in view, and educational applications 

 of the results of its work will be carefully 

 regarded in the preparation of its reports. 



The Station is jointly maintained by the 

 University of Illinois and the Illinois State 

 Laboratory of Natural Historj^, each con- 

 tributing equally to its support. It is un- 

 der the general management of Professor S. 

 A. Forbes, director of the State Laboratory 

 and professor of zoologj' in the University. 

 Its newly appokited superintendent is Dr. 

 Charles A. Kofoid, its zoological assistant 

 is Mr. Adolph Hempel, and its botanical 

 assistant is Mr. B. M. Duggar. 



It will be provided with a floating labora- 

 tory, 48 X 15 feet, furnished with tables, mi- 

 croscopes and aquatic and other apparatus of 

 observation and experiment sufficient for 

 twenty workman ; with rooms on shore for 



microscope technology and similar work ; 

 and with a naphtha launch and several skiffs 

 as means of transportation. Its quarters will 

 be occupied continously throughout the 

 year by its resident force, and will be open 

 to advanced students of aqiiatic biology dur- 

 ing the vacation season of 1896, on terms 

 to be hereafter stated. 



Papers are now finished or far advanced 

 setting forth the results of last year's work 

 on rotifers and Protozoa, on oligochaete 

 worms, on Daphniidse, on insects aquatic in 

 any stage, and on the chemical characters 

 of the waters of the various field stations, 

 as shown by periodical analyses. These 

 paj)ers will be printed separately in the 

 Bulletin of the State Laboratory, and will 

 also be published conjointly, at intervals, 

 together with general discussions and other 

 comprehensive matter, in the biennial re- 

 ports of the Station. 



ALEUT BAIDABKA8 IN KA3ICHATKA. 



There is a statement in Dr. G-uillemard's 

 interesting account of the ' Cruise of the 

 Marchesa ' (vol. i., pp. 224-227) which, if 

 left uncontradicted, might lead to erroneous 

 conclusions in the discussion now going on 

 as to the relationship and origin of the 

 N"orth American natives. 



The 'Marchesa,' in September, 1882, 

 visited a point on the western coast of 

 Kamchatka not far from Cape Lopatka, and 

 there* fell in with a party of ' natives ' who 

 came out to the steamer in canoes 'built 

 somewhat on the model of a Greenlander's 

 Kayack.' One of these canoes was pur- 

 chased, and on p. 228 is a figure of the 

 ' Bow of Kurile Canoe, ^ presumably the one 



* The island protecting the bay ' which is not 

 marked in the chart was named by us after Lieut. R. 

 H. Powell.' Gullem. Cr. Nr., i., p. 235 (1886). It 

 is, however, in the Russian Admiralty charts (for in- 

 stance No. 1475, corrected to 1880) and is called 

 Tchtashut Isl. The native huts are situated back of 

 Zheltij Mys, which is situated east of the Kiu-ilskoje 

 Lake and the Iljina A^olcano (Itterna, Guillemard '.■'). 



