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tion to the cordial and appreciative manner in which our enter¬ 
prise has been received by expert judges of high rank in this 
country and abroad. Important articles on its work have ap¬ 
peared in several of the leading scientific journals of Europe 
and America, and our official correspondence also contains 
many expressions of warm interest in our success from eminent 
men in various parts of the world. 
It gives me further pleasure to express to you my high ap¬ 
preciation of the capable, energetic, and successful work of my 
associates on the Station staff. Neither the broiling heat of the 
July sun nor the midwinter’s cold have been able to interrupt 
or even to delay the regular progress of the very laborious and 
exacting routine of their operations; and the steady strain of 
long months of confining work at the microscope has been taken 
by them with the patient enthusiasm of the trained investigator 
at work in a fruitful field. The contagion of the example of 
this little group of indefatigable naturalists is clearly affecting 
the life of related departments of the University, and it must 
in time make itself sensibly felt throughout the state and the 
country in the advancement of biological science and in the im¬ 
provement of our methods of biological instruction. 
Respectfully submitted. 
S. A. Forbes, Director. 
November BO, 1896. 
