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also used as necessary to supply desiderata. This aquatic 
establishment was found in all respects so satisfactory and con¬ 
venient, that rented rooms in the town, similarly furnished, 
were presently abandoned by the entire party, all preferring to 
work upon the boat. 
ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 
The staff of the Biological Station is composed of the 
Director and certain assistants of the State Laboratory of 
Natural History, all of whom are appointed hy the Trustees of 
the University of Illinois, and all except the Director upon his 
nomination. This officer is responsible for the organization, 
equipment, and general and financial administration of the 
Station, for the plan and objects of its operations, for the 
establishment and assignment of departments, for the main 
features of the papers and reports, and for the editorial super¬ 
vision of the Station publications. The Superintendent, who is 
appointed as such officer although borne upon the list of the 
assistants of the State Laboratory, has immediate charge of the 
Station force and is responsible to the Director for the execution 
of its plan of operations. He is allowed a large latitude with 
regard to details, and in the absence of the Director all the 
workers at the Station are under his immediate orders. 
From the establishment of the Station in April, 1894, 
until June 30, 1895, Mr. Frank Smith, at first Instructor and 
later Assistant Professor in the University department of 
zoology, served as Superintendent, devoting his time continu¬ 
ously to Station work until January 1, 1895. He had special 
personal charge of the quantitative collections—the so-called 
plankton work—during this period. He also began during the 
summer of 1894 a systematic study of the oligochsete worms of 
the Station and its vicinity, which he lias continued to the present 
time, giving to this subject his vacations entire, and such time 
as is left him after the performance of his duties in his Univer¬ 
sity department. He was assisted in his work from May to 
September, 1894, inclusive, by Mrs. Dora Smith, who served 
the Station as its microscopical technologist during that period. 
Beginning with July 1, 1895, the Station has been in charge of 
Dr. C. A. Kofoid as Superintendent with the planktology of the 
situation as his special department. He also acted as superin- 
