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The laborat<')ry boat was ainplj- stocked witli r-oniponnd and dissecting mi- 

 croscopes and a s-upply of cliemicals, glassware, and apparatus for the pres- 

 ervation of specimens and for microscopical teclinologj'. It was equipped 

 for fifteen workers in addition to the Station staif . The excellent working 

 library of the State Lah)oratory of Natural History was freely drawn upon for 

 everything needed in aid of the special Mork in progress at the time and the 

 library appropriation of the Laboratory was also used as necessaiy to supply- 

 desiderata. This aquatic establishment was found in all respects so satisfac- 

 tory and convenient, that rented rooms in the town, similarly furnished, were 

 presently abandoned by the entire paity, all preferring to work upon the 

 boat. 



0R(4AXIZATI0X AND STAFF. 



The staff of the Biological Station is composed of the Director and certain 

 Assistants of the State Laboratory of Natural History, all of whom are ap- 

 pointed by the Trustees of the University of Illinois, and all except the Direct- 

 or upon his nomination. This officer is responsible for the organization,, 

 equipment, and general and financial administration of the Station, for the 

 plan and objects of its operations, for the establishment and assignment of de- 

 partments, for the main features of the papers and reports, and for the editorial 

 siipei'\isiou of the Station publication. The Superintendent, who is appoint- 

 ed as such officer, although borne upon the list of the assistants of ihe State 

 Laboratory, has immediate charge of the Station force and is responsible to 

 the Director for the execution of its plan of operations. He is allowed a large 

 latitude with regard to details and in the absence of the Director all the 

 workers at the Station are under his immediate orders. 



From the establishment of the Station in April. 1894. until June 30, 1895, 

 Mr. Frank Smith, at first Instructor and later Assistant Professor in the Uni- 

 versity department of zoology, served as Superintendent, devoting his time 

 continuously to Station work until January 1, 1895. He had special 

 personal charge of the quantitative collections — the so-called plankton 

 work — during this period. He also began during the summer of 1894 a sj'S 

 tematic study of the oligochiEte worms of the Station and its vicinity, which 

 he has continued to the present time, giving to this subject his vacations 

 entire, and such time as is left him after the performance of his duties in 

 his University depai'tmeut. He was assisted ,in his work from May to 

 September, 1894, inclusive, by Mrs. Dora Smith who sei'ved the Station as 

 its microscopical technologist during that period. Beginning with July 1 , 1895, 

 the Station has been in charge of Dr. (\ A. Kofoid as Superintendent with, 

 the planktology of the situation as his special department. He also acted as 

 superintendent of con.struction during the building of the laboratoiy boat. 

 His entire time has been given to the Station work, except for the teaching 

 of one University class for one term. undertal;en as an exchange of services 

 with the zoological department. 



The entomt)logical work has been, since the commencement, in charge of 

 31r. C A. Hart. Svsteniatic Entomoloirist of the State Laboratory, assisted 



