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Finally, if th^ Station is to be utilized to the fullest extent as a means of 

 instniction to teachers in the public schools, permanent provision for this 

 work must certainly be made. 



These yarious needs can be met by the purchase of a small tract of land 

 now lying practically waste, by the erection of a small l>uilding on the bank 

 of Quiver Lake which shall combine additional facilities for laboratorj- inves- 

 tigation with living quarters for tlie Station staff, by the excavation of ponds 

 on the Station grounds and the construction of a water tank and pump, and 

 by the building of a large pavilion, with some connected rooms, for mid- 

 summer work by visiting students. 



Concerning the immediate future of the work, I beg to say that it is my 

 present wish and intention, if the Station is maintained on a scale and under 

 conditions to make it possible, to extend its work especially along thi-ee prin- 

 cipal lines. The preliminary systematic survey having been now largely com- 

 pleted, I hope next to select specific problems for srdution Ijy experimental 

 methods, working towards definite oecological results of scientific value. 

 Studies of the lower forms of aquatic life in our situation are now so far 

 advanced as to make it profitable to bring into our scheme of regidar opera- 

 tions the fishes of these waters. A pai-tieularly thorougli. continuous, and 

 comprehensive study of them should be made from various points of view, in 

 the hope especially of helping the fish-culturist to more intelligent methods 

 and to more certain and permanent results. 



Although the Station was founded primarily for investigation and its ex- 

 penditures up to the present time liave all been made directly to that end, it 

 is very apparent that it has a highly important work to perform in the inter- 

 ests of public education. I hope to occupy fully and at once this bi-oad field of 

 usefulness which now lies so plainly open before lis, not only by continuing 

 and enlarging our offerings to advanced students and to investigating natural- 

 ists, but especially by providing all needed facilities and instruction in field 

 biology and in special pedagogical methods to present and prospective teachers 

 of the natural history subjects in all grades of the public school. As a 

 first step to this object, I have already submitted to you a plan for a summer 

 school of field biology to be opened during the vacation season of next year. 

 This woi'k should, I do not doiibt, become a permanent and prominent fea- 

 ture of the Station operations. 



I ought not to close this general review and presentation of the affairs of 

 the Biological Station without calling your attention to the cordial and appre- 

 ciative manner in which our enterprise has been received by expert judges of 

 high rank in this country and abroad. Important articles on its woi'k have 

 appeared in several of the leading scientific journals of Europe and America. 

 fl,nd our ofiicial correspondence also contains many expressions of warm interest 

 in our success from eminent men in various parts of the world. 



It gives me further pleasure to express to you my high appreciation of the 

 capable, energetic, and successful work of my associates on the Station staflf. 

 Neither the broiling heat of the July sun nor the midwinter's cold have been 

 able to interrupt or »'ven to delay the regular pi-ogress of the very laborious 



