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FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND EXPENDITURES. 
The entire sum available for the equipment of the Station 
and its maintenance for three years and three months has been 
$10,800, $1,800 of which was appropriated by the Trustees of 
the University March 18, 1894, for the commencement of the 
work, and the remainder of which was derived from legislative 
appropriation made in June, 1895. Two thousand five hun¬ 
dred dollars of this latter appropriation was for building and 
equipment and $6,000 for running expenses for two years. The 
equipment fund has been expended in the purchase and modi¬ 
fication of the Station launch “Illini;” in building, furnishing, 
and equipping the floating laboratory; and in providing various 
minor items of apparatus and furniture. 
The floating laboratory or cabin-boat cost $1,578 furnished 
and equipped, the contract price for construction being $1,255. 
Five thousand five hundred and six dollars had been expended 
September 30, 1896, on account of salaries and general ex¬ 
penses of the Station, a balance of $1,394 remaining in hand to 
the credit of the appropriation. The salaries for this period of 
thirty months have been $4,218—an average of about $140 
per month—and the general expenses of the work have been 
$2,187—approximately $73 per month. 
PRESENT NEEDS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. 
The principal present needs of the work, apart from a fund 
sufficient for its maintenance on existing lines, are (1) more 
elaborate provision for chemical investigations, (2) a salary fund 
sufficient to enable me to add an experienced botanist to our 
present staff, (3) a site of three or four acres near the foot of 
Quiver Lake, and (4) provision for two principal buildings on 
shore and for a small system of permanent ponds with a pump¬ 
ing equipment for their maintenance. 
The necessary chemical work will undoubtedly be provided 
for by the Chemical Survey of the waters of the -state if the 
funds available for that survey are made sufficient to enable the 
University chemists to meet our wishes in this respect. As 
already said under another head in this report, chemical 
analyses are a matter of the first importance to the whole in¬ 
vestigation we have undertaken. They will have a very great 
incidental value also outside our own field because of their 
