No.40.] MARINE BIOLOGY AT BEAUFORT. 349 
other naturalists. During the past season’s work (1899) of 
the Fish Commission Laboratory many of the previously known 
facts, some recorded, some unrecorded (in the possession of 
former workers at Beaufort), have been brought together and 
confirmed, and important additions have been made. The 
forms actually collected during the season included 238 spe- 
cies of marine invertebrates, some 70 fishes, 50 birds, a num- 
ber of reptiles, amphibia, insects and arachnoids, and a very 
considerable number of land plants and alga. In the case 
of a good number of species, notes along the lines indicated 
above were made. In gathering the data of the record all 
members of the laboratory lent their assistance, during such 
time as they were able to spare from their special investiga- 
tions. I would especially thank Professors W. K. Brooks, 
E. W. Berger, J. Y. Graham, J. I. Hamaker, T. G. Pearson, 
Dr. D. S. Johnson, Dr. G. A. Drew, and Dr. Caswell Grave. 
Identifications and notes on breeding times have also been very 
kindly contributed by Professors E. A. Andrews, C. B. Daven- 
port, J. S. Kingsley, George Lefevre, M. M. Metcalf, J. P. 
McMurrich, E. B. Wilson. In another season's work, doubt- 
less, all the recorded forms will have been taken and identified. 
Further progress can only be made by a formal division of 
labor among the members of the laboratory. With the great 
awakening of interest, which is so apparent to-day, in the phe- 
nomena exhibited by animals and plants regarded as living 
units, it should not be difficult to find naturalists who will 
gladly work up the local natural history of the groups embrac- 
ing the particular forms on which they may be investigating 
problems of a morphological or physiological character. 
From among the forms occurring at Beaufort the following 
common summer ones may be selected with the purpose of giv- 
ing a conspectus of the local fauna and flora. The months 
given immediately after the name of each species are breeding 
months, but it is not implied that breeding is limited to these 
months. In many forms breeding undoubtedly continues 
through a large part of the year — oyster eggs, for instance, 
have been fertilized in December by Dr. Caswell Grave. With 
a few exceptions the forms listed were noted during the past 
