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the lax care usually oivcn to such property in this locality 

 «>reatly increase our (lan<>;er of loss hy wreck or fire while \vc 

 remain in our present location. The experience of the past two 

 years has only emphasized the necessity of the location of the 

 Station at some suitahle point — if at Havana, on (Quiver Lake — 

 where we can control property which will afford us an abun- 

 <lance of room, freedom from disturbance, facilities for carrying 

 on the shore operations that pertain to our work, and the loca- 

 tion of breedino- ponds. 



The Station was occupied by the Station staff and in full 

 operation in 1897 during the months of July, August, and 

 September, and in 1S98 from June 13 to October 1. In 

 addition to this, monthly visits were made to it for plankton 

 work during the w'inter and spring of 1897, and beginning 

 with the autumn of 1897 visits were made for the same pur- 

 pose until the full opening of the Station in June, 1898. As 

 a result of these visits a very full series of winter collections 

 has been accumulated. Since September 1, 1898, Mr. Wallace 

 Craig, resident Assistant at the Station, has been in charge 

 during my absence. Previous to this time the property of the 

 Station was cared for at such times by Mr. Miles Newberry, 

 who has been in our employ as general collector, janitor 

 and engineer for the past four years. His service has been 

 efficient and faithful in all the manifold and varied tasks which 

 fall to his hands. 



The work of the Station has been in the main prosecuted 

 along the lines established in previous years, with a few- 

 expansions in some directions and curtailments in others. 

 The primary purpose of the Station, that of investigation, has 

 been carried on along three principal lines : entomology, ichthy- 

 ology, and the quantitative investigation of the minute life of 

 the water. The entomological work has been in the hands of 

 Mr. C. A. Hart, who was at the Station during considerable 

 intervals in 1897 and 1898. 



Investigation of the fishes was taken up in July, 1897, by 

 Prof. Frank Smith, and was continued by him until September 

 1 of that year. In the summer of 1898 this work was taken 

 up by Mr. Craig, and additional equipment has been provided. 

 The Station was equipped with a hundred-yard river seine of 



