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III. Seventh International, Zoological Congress 

 One of the prominent features of the program for the 

 entertainment of the congress was a visit to Woods Hole 

 on Sunday, August 25, when the members were welcomed 

 jointly by the Marine Biological Laboratory and the 

 Fisheries Laboratory. After a lunch served in the 

 "mess" hall of the former institution, the party was 

 carried to New Bedford on the U. S. Fisheries steamer 

 Fish Hank. One drag with the dredge was made en route 

 by way of demonstration. On the preceding evening an 

 informal smoker was tendered by the research staff of the 

 Fisheries Laboratory to the local scientific colony and to 

 such of the foreign delegates as had already come to 

 Woods Hole in response to a special invitation. Thirteen 

 of these visitors 5 were housed for the night in the resi- 

 dence building of the station. A few of the most eminent 

 of the foreign delegates, including Hubrecht, Bateson, 

 von Graff and some others, had spent a week or more at 

 Woods Hole prior to the visit of the congress ; not, how- 

 ever, as the guests of this laboratory. 



IV. Individual Researches 

 Of the twenty-five or more persons employed in various 

 capacities on behalf of the laboratory, thirteen may, from 

 the nature of their work, be ranked as investigators, the 

 others serving as assistants, janitors, etc. Fourteen 

 volunteer (unpaid) investigators likewise held tables and 

 carried on independent lines of research. These twenty- 

 seven investigators represented 11 states and 21 educa- 

 tional institutions, 6 ranging from New Hampshire to 

 Michigan and Virginia. A detailed statement of indi- 

 vidual researches is given below. 



Tin- hospitality of the station was likewise extended to 

 a number of gentlemen who are not strictly to be enrolled 



