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General n;iention may also be made in this connection of the publication 

 and widespread distribution of a prelim inaiy report upon the Station* illus- 

 trated by seventeen plates of the situation and surroundings, and of a small 

 illustrated pamphlet descriptive of the Station and its work, inviting advanced 

 students and other competent investigators to share its privileges during the 

 vacation months of 1896. 



SUMMER OPENING OF THE STATION. 



With the launching and equipment of the cabin-boat it first became possi- 

 ble for us to offer the facilities of the Station to students outside our own 

 official gi'oup. Anticipating this opportunity, a pamphlet of twenty-four 

 pages, containing twelve half-tone plates, was distributed in the fall of 1895, 

 descadbing the Station and its surroundings, its equipment, its plan of opera- 

 tions, and its program for the season, and making the following offering. 



"The establishment and recent equipment of the Biological Station of the 

 University of Illinois will afford a unique opportunity to a limited number of 

 competent students to become acquainted with the plant and animal forms 

 a,nd with the system of life of a continental river and its dependent waters, 

 and with comprehensive methods and modern apparatus of investigation in 

 aquatic biology. This opportunity, it is believed, will be valued not only.bj" 

 interior students who would like to enlarge their personal knowledge of 

 the aquatic life of their own territory, but also by investigators of experience 

 in other fields who may wish to extend their studies, for the sake of compari- 

 son, into a department of American biologj' hitherto practically unexplored." 



•'For these reasons, and notwithstanding the fact that this Station was estab- 

 lished especially as a means of research by its own staff, it has been decided 

 open it for the months of June, July, and August to biological investiga- 

 tors and to students of some experience in zoological or botanical work. The 

 present accommodations are sufficient for only sixteen persons additional to 

 the Station force. Applications for admission must conse(|uently be made in 

 advance and at as early a day as practicable, with precise specification of 

 the period foi- which the applicant wishes to occupy a table in the Station 

 laboratory." 



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"Applications for admission to the Station will be entertained this first year 

 only from independent investigators and from students of biology who have 

 had sufficient experience to render systematic instruction and continuous 

 supervision unnecessary. Other things being equal, instructors in biological 

 science in colleges and public high schools will be given the preference." 



"Tables on the laboratory boat or in the rooms on shore, and other general 

 laboratory facilities, will be provided for those whose applications are ac- 

 cepted; ordinary microscopic reagents will be supplied: and access will be 

 given to the biological library of the Station. Books will also be loaned, as 

 needed, from the library of the State Ijaboratory of Natural History and 

 *See Bieu. Rep. Direc. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist.. 1893-94. p. U. 



