BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE ILLINOIS STATE 

 LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.* 



Dr. S. H. Peabody, Regent of the Unirersitf/ : 



Sir: In accordance with the spirit (although, I must con- 

 fess, not strictly with the letter) of a resolution adopicil by 

 the Trustees of the IlDiversity July 1, 1885, to the effect that 

 the Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History should 

 make to the Trustees, through the Regent, quarterly reports of 

 the affairs and operations of the Laboratory, I beg to offer this 

 report of our affairs during the last two years. 



The organization of this establishment and its operations 

 during this time have differed but little in scope and general 

 character from those reported to the Trustees in 1888.t 



The staff of the Laboratory duriug the last two years has 

 consisted of a botanist. Prof. Burrill, — engaged for only a 

 small part of his time; a botanical assistant, alternately Mr. 

 Moses Craig and Mr. G. P. Clinton; an office entomologist, Mr, 

 C. A. Hart; a field entomologist, Mr. John Marten; a zoological 

 assistant, Mr. H. S. Brode (giving the Laboratory such part 

 of his services as were not appropriated by the University ) ; an 

 amanuensis. Miss M. J. Snyder; and an artist, Mr. A. M. Wes- 

 tergren, employed in drawing (chiefly entomological) for only 

 seven months. The salaries of those whose time is divided be- 

 tween the Laboratory and University are derived in part from 

 each source, in amounts proportioned as nearly as may be to 

 their services for each. The botanist has received from the 

 Laboratory 8200 a year, the botanical assistants full pay for 

 time actually spent on Laboratory work, and the zoological 



*ror financial statement for the two years ending June 30, 

 1890, see Fifteenth Report of the Board of Trustees of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, pp. 92, 177. 



t See Fourteenth Report of the Board of Trustees of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, p. 185. 



