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‘this country and Europe, which will serve greatly to enlarge the col- 
lections of the Laboratory, the State Museum, and the State educa- 
tional institutions, and to commence the publication of a series of 
illustrated reports based on this material, which, when finished, shall 
enable every intelligent citizen and every high school pupil in the 
State, to acquire a good working knowledge of the plants and ani- 
‘mals of his locality. It is not proposed to enter upon the prepara- 
tion of elaborate descriptive papers on groups of animals or plants, 
‘(such as birds and phenogams) on which sufficient descriptive works 
are already obtainable by the ordinary student, but, limiting the 
treatment of these to local and economic relations, to monograph 
those groups which have not been thoroughly studied elsewhere. 
In short, it is intended that the school or private library’ which 
contains the ordinary works on natural history, to be had by every- 
one at slight expense, and contains also the publications of this Lab- 
oratory, shall have a sufficient working library of the zolo6gy and 
botany of the State, for either practical or ordinary educational pur- 
oses. For the accomplishment of this end, so greatly to be desired, 
little more is needed than the opportunity and funds to enable us 
to put into print the data with which the shelves, cases and note- 
books of the Laboratory are now crowded. When this purpose is 
well accomplished, a solid and enduring foundation will be laid for 
the education of the people of this State in the most fundamental 
and essential part of these important branches of knowledge. 
Respectfully submitted, 
S. A. Fores, Director. 
