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able, the Station work was carried by the State Laboratory until 
July 1, and the resources of the Laboratory will also be further 
drawn upon, as may be necessary, for its support until the 
legislature may have had time to act upon our request for the 
means of future maintenance. 
As this establishment is unique in this country, and is insome 
important respects the only one of its kind in the world, I 
shall feel obliged to enter into some detail concerning its pur- 
poses, organization, and operations. Since it is now, and, in my 
judgment, should continue to be, supported jointly by the Uni- 
versity and the Laboratory, I can best report upon it here from 
both these points of view. 
The Station depends for its establishment, perpetuation, and 
development on the acceptance of the following general ideas: 
That it is a part of the office of a university, properly so-called, 
to promote the progress of pure science; that an institution 
whose scientific work is closely limited to the economic field may 
be an industrial school, but cannot be a university; but that a 
state institution both educational and scientific in its character 
should stand in the closest possible relation to the general public 
welfare, and hence should work out in every direction the appli- 
cation of the results of its investigations to industrial and educa- 
tional affairs; and that a state institution of this character should 
help especially to make the people of the state acquainted with 
the state itself. 
The general objects of our Station are to provide additional 
facilities and resources for the natural history survey of the 
State, now being carried on, under legislative authorization, by 
the State Laboratory of Natural History; to contribute largely 
to a thoroughgoing scientific knowledge of the whole system of 
life existing in the waters of this State, with a view to economic 
as well as educational applications, and especially with reference 
to the improvement of fish culture and to the prevention of a pro- 
gressive pollution of ourstreams and lakes; to occupy arichand 
promising field of original biological investigation hitherto largely 
overlooked or neglected not only in America but throughout the 
world; and to increase the resources of the zoological and botan- — 
ical departments of the University by providing means and facili- 
ties for special lines of both graduate and undergraduate work 
and study for those taking major courses in these departments. 
