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Finally, if the Station is to be utilized to the fullest extent as a means of 
instruction to teachers in the public schools, permanent provision for this 
work must certainly be made. 
These various needs can be met by the purchase of a small tract of land 
now lying practically waste, by the erection of a small building on the bank 
of Quiver Lake which shall combine additional facilities for laboratory inves- 
tigation with living quarters for the Station staff, by the excavation of ponds 
on the Station grounds and the construction of a water tank and pump, and 
by the building of a large pavilion, with some connected rooms, for mid- 
summer work by visiting students. 
_ Concerning the immediate future of the work, I beg to say that it is my 
present wish and intention, if the Station is maintained on a scale and under 
conditions to make it possible, to extend its work especially along three prin- 
cipal lines. The preliminary systematic survey having been now lar gely com- 
pleted, I hope next to select specific problems for solution by experimental 
methods, working towards definite ccological results of scientific value. 
Studies of the lower forms of aquatic life in our situation are now so far 
advanced as to make it profitable to bring into our scheme of regular opera- 
tions the fishes of these waters. A particularly thorough, continuous, and 
comprehensive study of them should be made from various points of view, in 
the hope especially of helping the fish-culturist to more intelligent methods: 
and to more certain and permanent results. 
Although the Station was founded primarily for investigation and its 6xe 
penditures up to the present time have all been made directly to that end, it. 
is very apparent that it has a highly important work to perform in the inter= 
ests of public education. I hope to occupy fully and at once this broad field of ‘ 
usefulness which now lies so plainly open before us, not only by continuing: 
and enlarging our offerings to advanced students and to investigating natural-_ 
ists, but especially by providing all needed facilities and instruction in field 
biology and in special pedagogical methods to present and prospective teachers 
of the natural history subjects in all grades of the public school. As @ 
first step to this object, I have already submitted to you a plan for a summer 
school of field biology to be opened during the vacation season of next year. | 
This work should, I do not doubt, become a permanent and prominent fea-_ 
ture of the Station operations. 
I ought not to close this general review and presentation of the affairs of” 
the Biological Station without calling your attention to the cordial and appre- 
ciative manner in which our enterprise has been received by expert judges of 
high rank in this country and abroad. Important articles on its work have 
appeared in several of the leading scientific journals of Europe and America 
and our official correspondence also contains many expressions of warm interes 
in our success from eminent men in various parts of the world. 
It gives me further pleasure to express to you my high appreciation of the 
capable, energetic, and successful work of my associates on the Station staff. 
Neither the broiling heat of the July sun nor the midwinter’s cold have bee 
able to interrupt or even to delay the regular progress of the very laboriou 
