to live in the town. Vacation life in a village boarding house 

 with work in a school room offers too little relief from the 

 ordinary experience of the student or teacher to be especially 

 attractive in itself. If the School is to be maintained — and I 

 sincerely hope that it may be — we should have a plot of land on 

 the banks of Quiver Lake, two miles and a half above Havana, 

 should have erected there a building suitable for summer use as 

 a students' laboratory, should provide facilities for life in camp 

 to those who prefer them, and should also make it possible for 

 students to live either at that place or in town. 



Fifteen students were in attendance throughout our term 

 of four weeks. The only instructors regularly engaged were 

 Assistant Professor Frank Smith, of the Department of Zoology, 

 and Instructor C. F. Hottes, of the Department of Botany. The 

 work was carefully planned and very thoroughly and efficiently 

 done, and was received very cordially by all in attendance. 



Publication of papers has been made by the State Labo- 

 ratory to the full limit of our appropriation for this purpose, 

 nine articles of our Laboratory Bulletin, comprising four hundred 

 and thirty-eight pages of text and sixty plates, having been 

 printed and distributed during the last two years. They set 

 forth mainly the general results of our Biological Station work 

 combined with the results of studies by advanced students and 

 the Station staff upon other collections of the State Laboratory, 

 but include also an article on scale insects of the State and one 

 on insect disease. The influence of the State Laboratory upon 

 the Department of Zoology is shown by the fact that tlu-ee of the 

 above papers, each a valuable contribution to science, have been 

 prepared by University students in the course of their work for 

 first and second degrees. Such work would have been entirely 

 beyond their reach except for the materials, equipment, and 

 literature provided by the Laboratory, which has also borne the 

 expense of their publication and illustration. 



With respect to the future of this work I am strongly of the 

 opinion that a decided advance should be made in the Natural 

 History Survey, for which the Laboratory is responsible under 

 the law of its establishment. The annual appropriations made 

 of late have been too small to provide for more than the neces- 

 sary operations of the Entomologist's office, which they are 



