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The laboratory boat was amply stoeked with compound and dissecting mi-_ 
croscopes and a supply of chemieals, glassware, and apparatus for the pres-_ 
ervation of specimens and for microseopical technology. It was equipped — 
for fifteen workers in addition to the Station staff. The excellent working 
library of the State Laboratory of Natural History was freely drawn upon for 
everything needed in aid of the speeial work in progress at the time and the 
hbrary appropriation of the Laboratory was also used as necessary to supply 
desiderata. This aquatic establishment was found in all respects so satisfac- . 
tory and convenient, 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 ap-. 
pointed by the Trustees of the University of Illinois, and all except the Direct- 
or 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 de- 
partments, for the main features of the papers and reports, and for the editorial _ 
supervision of the Station publication. The Superintendent, who is appoint-_ 
ed 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 Uni-— 
versity department of zodlogy, served as Superintendent, devoting his time- 
continuously 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 asys~ 
tematic study of the oligochate worms of the Station and its vicinity, which 
he has 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 University 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 
superintendent of construction during the building of the laboratory boat. 
His entire time has been given to the Station work, except for the teaching 
of one University class for one term, undertaken as an exchange of services 
with the zodlogical department. ; 
The entomological work has been, since the commencement, in charge of 
Mr. C. A. Hart, Systematic Entomologist of the State Laboratory, assisted. 
