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I have myself undertaken to prepare, and have nearly fin¬ 
ished, a comprehensive article on the Crustacea of the Biological 
Station field, with analytical synopses of all the groups and 
illustrative figures for the use of the student of our aquatic 
fauna. 
A paper on the planarian worms found at Havana is now 
reported as practically ready for the press in the hands of Dr. 
W. M. Woodworth, of Harvard University. Articles in course 
of preparation hy visiting investigators are “The Mycetozoa 
collected near Havana, Illinois, during the summer of 1896,” 
hy H. C. Beardslee, of University School, Cleveland, Ohio, and 
“Statistical Becord of the Trematoda Parasitic in the Union- 
idae,” by Professor H. M. Kelly, of Cornell College, Iowa. 
The excellent work done hy the Station Artist, Miss Lydia 
M. Hart, in illustration of nearly all the papers of the foregoing 
list, is deserving of particular mention. One hundred and three 
drawings have been made hy her of new or otherwise interesting* 
animal forms, besides several drawings of pieces of apparatus 
and other features of the equipment. 
General mention may also be made in this connection of 
the publication and widespread distribution of a preliminary 
report upon the Station* illustrated hy seventeen plates of the 
situation and surroundings, and of a small illustrated pamphlet 
descriptive of the Station and its work, inviting advanced stu¬ 
dents and other competent investigators to share its privileges, 
during the vacation months of 1896. 
SUMMER OPENING OF THE STATION. 
With the launching and equipment of the cabin-boat it 
first became possible for us to offer the facilities of the Station 
to students outside our own official group. Anticipating this 
opportunity, a pamphlet of twenty-four pages, containing 
twelve half-tone plates, was distributed in the fall of 1895, 
describing the Station and its surroundings, its equipment, its 
plan of operations, and its program for the season, and making* 
the following offering: 
“ The establishment and recent equipment of the Biological 
Station of the University of Illinois will afford a unique oppor¬ 
tunity to a limited number of competent students to become 
*See Bien. Rep. Direc. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., 1893-94, p. 14. 
