MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 17 



Four students received aid from the income of the Humboldt 

 Fund to the amount of $238.60 while working at the Bermuda 

 Station. 



Professor W. M. Chester of Colgate University, student in 

 the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was appointed Assistant 

 Director of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research for the 

 summer session of 1910. The Station was opened June 17, and 

 closed August 2. Seven persons were enrolled, all except one 

 connected with Harvard University. Professor Mark was obliged 

 to leave the Station the middle of July, after which the manage- 

 ment was in the hands of the Assistant Director. 



The 8th International Zoological Congress, held in Graz, Austria, 

 was attended by Professor Mark, who presented a joint paper 

 with Dr. J. A. Long, and announced two demonstrations, the 

 result of joint work with two graduate students, S. S. Berry 

 and R. A. Spaeth. Of the 139 papers and demonstrations an- 

 nounced on the programme of the Congress twenty-nine were by 

 Americans, and of these, ten were by persons now or formerly con- 

 nected with the Zoological Department. 



During November and December Professor Parker delivered 

 a course of eight lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston, on 

 "The human sense organs." 



Much of Professor Wheeler's time and that of his assistant, 

 Mr. W. ReifF, has been devoted to a field study of the wilt disease 

 of the Gypsy Moth. 



In July Professor Castle delivered a course of lectures on heredity 

 and animal breeding at the Graduate School of Agriculture, which 

 held its fourth biennial session at Ames, Iowa, under the auspices 

 of the Association of x\gricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions. He has had the assistance of Research Fellow Dr. J. C. 

 Phillips in research work. 



The Zoological Club held twenty-three meetings, at which 

 there were presented twenty original papers and twelve reviews. 

 The average attendance was between fourteen and fifteen. 



