completed, and those published or in press, I ask leave to file as a special 

 supplementary report, for general circulation. I should be glad to have your 

 order for a separate print of a thousand copies of this report, with illustra- 

 tions, to be separately bound in pamphlet form at the expense of the State 

 Laboratory of Natural History. I will only say now, in general, that the 

 conclusions already reached, especially in Dr. Kofoid's department of so- 

 called plankton work, cannot fail to command the close attention and strong 

 interest of scientitic men, the world over, engaged in investigations of this class. 



Th6 summer opening of the Station to investigating and other independent 

 students resulted in the acceptance of our invitation by twenty-two persons, 

 five of whom wel-e finally prevented from attending. Our accommodations 

 were limited to fifteen workers additional to the Station force, but as the 

 seventeen who arrived did not all present themselves at once, we were able to 

 provide satisfactorily for them. These seventeen visitants represented the 

 states of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah. Eight were 

 members of college or university faculties ; five were teachers of biology in 

 high schools or academies; two were city school superintendents; and two 

 were college students in advanced courses. The colleges and universities 

 represented by them were the Wesleyan University, at Bloomington, 111.; 

 the Nebraska Wesleyan University: Carthage College, at Carthage, 111.; 

 Knox College, at Galesburg; Lincoln LTniversity, at Lincoln; Eureka College, 

 at Eureka; Cornell College, at Mt. Vernon, la.; Drake Universitj^ at Des 

 Moines, la.; the University of Utah, Salt Lake City; and the University of 

 Illinois. The high schools and academies sending instructors to the Station 

 were University School, Cleveland, O.; Detroit High School, Detroit, Mich.; 

 the Public High School at Dwight, 111., and the high schools at Havana, 111., 

 and Marshalltown, la. 



They were a competent and energetic group of students; a credit to the 

 Station, and [in some respects an aid rather than a hindrance to 'our work. 

 Two of them. Professor Kelly, of Cornell College, Iowa, and Mr. Beardslee, 

 of University School, Cleveland, Ohio, are preparing papers presenting the 

 scientific results of their Station investigations, which they have kindly 

 placed at my disposal for publication in the State Laboi-atory Bulletin as a 

 part of the series of papers growing out of the Station work. Our summer 

 visitants were, I think without exception, pronounced in their appreciation of 

 the opportunity offered them, and emphatic in their expressions of surprise 

 at the attractiveness of the situation and the richness of the biological field 

 in which the Station is established. Several of them have already filed re- 

 quests for admission next year. 



The success of the " Summer [Opening,'" together with several conversa- 

 tions which I have had with teachers of biology, public school superintend- 

 ents, and the like, have convinced me that it is incumbent upon us, if in any 

 way practicable, to extend this offering of an opportunity for midsummer 

 work to public school teachers of biology-, and I have taken some preliminary 



