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acquainted with the plant and animal forms and with the sys¬ 
tem of life of a continental river and its dependent waters, and 
with comprehensive methods and modern apparatus of investi¬ 
gation in aquatic biology. This opportunity, it is believed, will 
be valued not only by interior students who would like to enlarge 
their personal knowledge of the aquatic life of their own terri¬ 
tory, but also by investigators of experience in other fields who 
may wish to extend their studies, for the sake of comparison, 
into a department of American biology hitherto practically un¬ 
explored. 
“For these reasons, and notwithstanding the fact that this 
Station was established especially as a means of research by 
its own staff, it has been decided to open it for the months of 
June, July, and August to biological investigators and to 
students of some experience in zoological or botanical work. 
The present accommodations are sufficient for only sixteen 
persons additional to the Station force. Applications for 
admission must consequently be made in advance and at as 
early a day as practicable, with precise specification of the 
period for which the applicant wishes to occupy a table in the 
Station laboratory. 
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“Applications for admission to the Station will be enter¬ 
tained this first year only from independent investigators and 
from students of biology who have had sufficient experience to 
render systematic instruction and continuous supervision un¬ 
necessary. Other things being equal, instructors in biological 
science in colleges and public high schools will be given the 
preference. 
“ Tables on the laboratory boat or in the rooms on shore, 
and other general laboratory facilities, will be provided for 
those whose applications are accepted; ordinary microscopic 
reagents will be supplied; and access will be given to the bio¬ 
logical library of the Station. Books will also be loaned, as 
needed, from the library of the State Laboratory of Natural 
History and from that of the University of Illinois. Occupants 
of the laboratory will be expected to furnish their own micro¬ 
scopes or to pay a small fee for the use of those of the Uni¬ 
versity. They are advised to bring also any collecting appa¬ 
ratus in their possession, as the laboratory equipment may 
